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First Voices Indigenous Radio

In the first half-hour, Jar­rad Packard is an enrolled mem­ber of the Yank­ton Sioux Tribe of South Dako­ta and is also Oglala Lako­ta from Pine Ridge, South Dako­ta. Jar­rad worked at the Indi­an Health Ser­vice head­quar­ters in Rockville, MD from 2010 until 2018 in the Office of Man­age­ment Ser­vices. He recent­ly came on board with the New York Indi­an Coun­cil, Inc. in the role of Well­ness Case Man­ag­er where he pro­vides case man­age­ment, out­reach and refer­ral ser­vices to the Amer­i­can Indi­an and Alas­ka Native com­mu­ni­ty in New York City and the sur­round­ing area. Jar­rad grad­u­at­ed in 2009 with a bach­e­lors degree in Health Care Man­age­ment and Pol­i­cy from George­town Uni­ver­si­ty’s School of Nurs­ing and Health Studies.

In the sec­ond half-hour, Chief Phillip White­man Jr.,Yellow Bird, is a North­ern Cheyenne Chief, spir­i­tu­al leader, nation­al­ly renowned horse­man, cul­tur­al con­sul­tant, per­form­ing artist, tra­di­tion­al sto­ry­teller and entre­pre­neur. He co-devel­oped the Med­i­cine Wheel Mod­el, Beyond Horse­man­ship, a holis­tic mod­el that con­nects the spir­it of horse and human. Chief White­man most recent­ly was a cul­ture and lan­guage con­sul­tant for the major motion pic­ture The Hos­tiles,” star­ring Chris­t­ian Bale, Wes Stu­di, Rose­mu­nd Pike and Rory Cochran. Chief White­man con­tin­ues to give back to his com­mu­ni­ty through his non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion Yel­low Bird, which empow­ers North­ern Cheyenne youth and address­es the issues of his­tor­i­cal trau­ma. He cred­its his par­ents, both mem­bers of the North­ern Cheyenne Nation, the late Chief Phillip White­man, Sr., and his moth­er, the late Flo­rence Bites-White­man, a War­rior Woman of the Elk Scraper Soci­ety for his many accom­plish­ments. Join­ing Chief White­man is Lynette Two Bulls, Scouts the Way Woman. Lynette grew up on the Pine Ridge Indi­an Reser­va­tion in South Dako­ta and is an enrolled mem­ber of the Oglala Lako­ta Nation, and is of North­ern Cheyenne descen­den­cy. She has 30 years of expe­ri­ence in the prof­it and non-prof­it sec­tor focus­ing on com­mu­ni­ty devel­op­ment, social jus­tice, envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice and lead­er­ship devel­op­ment. She is cur­rent­ly the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Yel­low Bird and is Co-Founder and a Cul­tur­al Prac­ti­tion­er of the Med­i­cine Wheel Mod­el, a strength-based, cir­cu­lar life mod­el uti­liz­ing Indige­nous val­ues, tra­di­tions and heal­ing with hors­es as the foun­da­tion to empow­er youth, fam­i­lies and com­mu­ni­ties. Lynette cred­its her grand­par­ents the late Matthew and Nel­lie Two Bulls for her accom­plish­ments. She resides in Lame Deer, Mon­tana with her com­pan­ion Chief Phillip White­man and children.