In the first half-hour, First Voic­es Radio Cor­re­spon­dent Anne Keala Kel­ly (Kana­ka Maoli) talks with Shan­non OLough­lin (Choctaw Nation of Okla­homa), CEO and attor­ney for the Asso­ci­a­tion on Amer­i­can Indi­an Affairs. The Asso­ci­a­tion has been track­ing domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al auc­tions sell­ing sen­si­tive Amer­i­can Indi­an, Alas­ka Native and Native Hawai­ian cul­tur­al her­itage since 2018. Bon­hams Skin­ner, a large glob­al auc­tion house, has been host­ing a 10-day Amer­i­can Indi­an and Trib­al Art online auc­tion this month. The Asso­ci­a­tion has major con­cerns about the chain of title, as well as the authen­tic­i­ty, of many of the items in this auc­tion. Shan­non has been prac­tic­ing law for more than 22 years and is a lec­tur­er at Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty. She has served Indi­an Coun­try in the pri­vate sec­tor as an attor­ney, lead­ing a large nation­al firms Indi­an law prac­tice that worked to strength­en, main­tain and pro­tect Indi­an nation sov­er­eign­ty, self-deter­mi­na­tion and cul­ture. More infor­ma­tion at: https://​www​.indi​an​-affairs​.org…

In the sec­ond half-hour, Tiokasin catch­es up with return­ing guest Stephany Seay. Stephany is Co-Founder and Board Pres­i­dent of Roam Free Nation. She has been work­ing in ser­vice to the last wild buf­fa­lo for more than 20 years. Stephany learned about the con­tin­ued war against wild buf­fa­lo in 1996 and has been advo­cat­ing for them ever since. In response to their strug­gle, she moved to Mon­tana on New Years Day 2004, where she became the media coor­di­na­tor for Buf­fa­lo Field Cam­paign, from which she part­ed ways after 18 years of ser­vice over philo­soph­i­cal dif­fer­ences. Stephany has near­ly 20 years of expe­ri­ence stand­ing with the buf­fa­lo and is an avid wildlife pho­tog­ra­ph­er, back coun­try ski­er and horse­woman. She is a mem­ber of Deep Green Resis­tance. Stephany trusts that the buf­fa­lo have called us not just to help defend them, but to help us save us from our­selves from the unsus­tain­able and self­ish cre­ation of indus­tri­al civ­i­liza­tion. More infor­ma­tion at: https://​roam​freena​tion​.org/.