Pledge-O-Rama Returns April 19th through April 26th - dig deep and support great Campus & Community Radio in Winnipeg!

Listen Live

On-air now: Full Moon Hacksaw 4:00am–6:00am

Up next: Talking Radical Radio 6:00am–6:30am

Program Directory

For The Wild

In the Unit­ed States, land own­er­ship is dis­hon­ourable no mat­ter how you frame it. For exam­ple, 60% of land in the U.S. is owned pri­vate­ly and 30% is owned by the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, com­par­a­tive­ly trib­al nations own about 2.5% of their land. Mean­while, the Gates fam­i­ly recent­ly became the largest own­ers of Amer­i­can farm­land, own­ing a total of 260,000 acres of land across 19 states, with 242,000 acres being char­ac­ter­ized as farm­land. In today’s episode, we are joined by guest Dr. Cutcha Ris­ling Baldy to explore what land own­er­ship means across the Unit­ed States, how to begin seed­ing the con­cept of land return in main­stream con­scious­ness, and the grave injus­tices we per­pet­u­ate when we con­tin­ue to draw upon Tra­di­tion­al Eco­log­i­cal Knowl­edge for cli­mate mit­i­ga­tion and adap­ta­tion with­out work­ing towards land rema­tra­tion simul­ta­ne­ous­ly. Dr. Cutcha Ris­ling Baldy is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor and Depart­ment Chair of Native Amer­i­can Stud­ies at Hum­boldt State Uni­ver­si­ty. Her research focus­es on Cal­i­for­nia Indi­ans, Indige­nous fem­i­nism, social & envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice, and decol­o­niza­tion. Dr. Ris­ling Baldy is Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk and an enrolled mem­ber of the Hoopa Val­ley Tribe in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia. In 2007, she co-found­ed the Native Wom­en’s Col­lec­tive, a non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that sup­ports the con­tin­ued revi­tal­iza­tion of Native Amer­i­can arts and culture.