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"INDIGENOUS POLITICS: FROM NATIVE NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND"

Radio program on WESU, Middletown, CT (88.1 FM)
LISTEN ONLINE while the show airs Tuesdays 4-5pm EDT (3-4pm CST/1-2pm PST/10-11am HST): www.wesufm.org (All past programs of "Indigenous Politics" are now archived online: www.indigenouspolitics.com )

For the Seventh Generation: American Indians, Youth, and Education

On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode that will focus on the politics of education, representations, and youth. The first guest is Debbie Reese (Nambé Pueblo Tribe), publisher of an Internet blog and
resource called American Indians in Children's Literature that is used by parents, librarians, teachers, and college professors in Education, Library Science, and English Literature. Reese will offer critical perspectives of indigenous peoples in children's books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society-at-large. Reese is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches courses including:
Politics of Children's Literature, Introduction to American Indian Studies, and History of American Indian Education. Her current research projects include a book titled Indians as Artifacts: How Images of Indians are used to Nationalize America's Youth.

The second guest is Lorén Spears (Naragansett), the Founder and Executive Director of the Nuweetooun School, Rhode Island. Nuweetooun is a Native school open to all children that has a core curriculum of Native culture and history combined with environmental studies. Spears received her Masters in Education from the University of New England in 2002. She spent 12 years teaching underserved youth in Rhode Island public schools. She was a Narragansett Tribunal Judge, and is currently serving her people on Tribal Council.

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This show is syndicated on select Pacifica-affiliate stations: WNJR, in Washington, PA, WETX-LP, "The independent voice of Appalachia," which broadcasts throughout the Tri-Cities region of East Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and northwest North
Carolina; WBCR-lp in Great Barrington, MA and WORT in Madison, WI.
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All past programs of "Indigenous Politics" are now archived online: www.indigenouspolitics.com
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The show's producer and host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui is an associate professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke
University Press, 2008). For more information, see: http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/