September 30, 2025 · 3:51 pm
30 September is observed in Canada as The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and generational impact committed on First Nations peoples by the Canadian Indian residential school system. It has expanded in the United State as a day to remember the atrocities and generational impact inflicted by the U.S. boarding school system on Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of Australia had a similar experience.
Lost Souls – Tom Jackson Lost Souls
Residential School Song (Indian Boarding School Song) – Cheryl Bear
Child of the Government – Jayli Wolf
BEFORE – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Joseph Boyden
Apatapasiq – Mike Bern
Battlefields – Twin Flames
Savage Mob – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, feat. Nooky & Birdz
open window – nêhiyawak
Took the Children Away – Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter (the Australian Indigenous experience)
Take Me Home – Indian City
Spirit Horses – Annie Humphrey
The Land of the Blind – Ira Provost
Why Us – N’we Jinan Artists
500 Years – Rhonda Head
Residential School – Jerry Alfred & The Medicine Beat
Cut My Hair – Digging Roots
Residential School – Chris Pierce
For Our Children – Bryan Akipa
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Human Rights, Music, playlist
Tagged as Australia, boarding schools, Canada, First Nations, indigenous peoples, Orange Shirt Day, residential schools, The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 16, 2025 · 6:03 pm
The drums beat,
the people continue.
The rattles shake,
the people continue.
The bells jingle,
the people continue.
The dancers move,
the people continue.
The singers chant,
the people continue.
Out of the past,
the people continue.
In the present,
the people continue.
Into the future,
the people continue.
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Friends, Human Rights, Music, New Mexico, Prayer
Tagged as dance, dignity, drum, Feast Day, Feast of San Augustinito, future, indigenous peoples, past, present, Pueblo of Isleta, resistance, song
August 12, 2025 · 5:28 pm
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Tuva Kazhangnar – Tuva Folk Ensemble
He Toa Takitini / Ka Tohia Atu Koe / Ki Okoiki – Maori People Of New Zealand
Ayoro Kotan – Matsuko
Busigan (Shame) – Las Golondrinas Viajeras
Kantus De Apacheta – K’antu Ensemble
Máhte Lemet Elle – Ole Larsen Gaino
Sote Tulifurahia Kama Siku Ya Arusi – Hukwe Ubi Zawose With Ensemble
Stick Game Song – Bad Canyon Wellpinit Singers
Untitled (Iran) – Indigenous Turkmen People
Batara Guru – Gondang Sabangunan Ensemble
Lelore – Wodaabe Of Dakoro
Mbumbusa (Warrior’s Cry) – Honiata Musicians Of Guadalcanal Island
Vinango (Voyage By Canoe) – Villagers From Panueli, Island Of Savo
Ejengi Ceremony – Ba-Benjellé Pygmies Of The Central African Republic
Nazirkhom – Raman Sawut & Osman Oskur
No’ôk-‘amor – Central Mekrâgnoti Of Brazil
Akuka (Tubuan Dance) – Tolai Musicians
Gending Sekar Gabund (Excerpt) – Gamelan Salunding
Màrsi Màlasri – Jyàpu musicians of Guita Tol
Imìna Imìna – Indigenous Inuit People
Navssâpaluk Sadorana – Indigenous Inuit People
Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo – Lol Gomez, Xun Perez, and Mariano Santis Hernandez
Koroghlu – Ashiq Hasan
Rashaida Dance – Indigenous Rashaida People
Gyütò Tantra (Excerpt) – Monks Of Gyütò Tantric College
Ghungsgot Thonpo (The High Sky) – Tashi Palkit & Isewang Namgyal Kidar
Bisitaita (Song Of Consolation) – Bunun People of Taiwan
Danse Des Toka Nod (Tiga)- Kanak People of New Caledonia
Dalubun (Love Song) – Tjoli Laiwongka & Tom Yorkdjanki
Apu Peikussian – Florent Vollant
The Unforgotten – iskwē, feat. Tanya Tagaq
Shine – Sihasin
J-ilol – VAYIJEL
starlight – nêhiyawak
Cauyaqa Nauwa – Pamyua
Sikumiut – Sikumiut
A Tribe Called Red – Angel Haze
Pashtu Ghazal- Musa Jan & Zahir Jan
August 5, 2025 · 10:06 pm
Isn’t it odd that the same person who removed the Indigenous name Denali from the mountain in Alaska now wants to return the name of the Washington football team to a racist slur because “Our great Indian people … their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.”???
Spoiler:
This is a rhetorical question.
There is nothing odd about it.
It is the same old white supremacist bs that undergirds the dominant society and is being expressed in so many ways by the current administration.
Here endeth the lesson.
Here begineth and continueth the advocacy.
Advocacy opportunities related to the use of Indigenous names and imagery include
National Congress of American Indians
Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance
Not Your Mascot
National Museum of the American Indian Webinar: Changing the Narrative About Native Americans
Twin Cities PBS: Not Your Mascot: Native Americans and Team Mascots
The Lakota Law Project provides many opportunities for advocacy around issues facing Indigenous peoples
In Whose Honor? – video from more than 20 years ago that, sadly, remains relevant in the current atmosphere
For information about the naming of Denali and the suggestion to change back the names of the Washington football team and the Cleveland base ball see:
Denali name change
Proposed sports name changes
Filed under Antiracism, Baseball, Current Events, Football, Human Rights, Sports
Tagged as Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance, Denali, In Whose Honor?, indigenous peoples, Lakota Law Project, National Congress of American Indians, National Museum of the American Indian, Not Your Mascot
March 24, 2025 · 7:55 pm
Walking. La Cueva neighborhood. Morning movement. Chair stretching.
Anniversary of assassination of Saint Oscar Romero.
Cherokee Nation Remembrance Day. “186 years ago today, one of the final groups of Cherokees arrived in Indian Territory after being forcibly removed from our homelands and enduring a perilous journey across the Trail of Tears.”
El Padre Antonio Y Su Monaguillo Andrés – Rubén Blades
Homenaje a Rutilio Grande – SON
Oscar Romero – Dafydd Iwan
Romero – The Project Martyrs
El Salvador – Peter, Paul & Mary
Oscar Romero – Brotes de Olivo
Eulogy to Oscar Romero –
Oscar Romero – Garth Hewitt
Oscar Romero – Richard Gilpin
Archbishop Oscar Romero Memorial – Fran Schultz
Cherokee Stomp – Litefoot, feat. Tommy Wildcat
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Orphan Child – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Tears – Jobel Star Cherokee Tears
On the Road Where They Cried – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Cherokee Trail of Tears – Native American Indians
Amazing Grace – Cherokee National Children’s Choir
Trail of Tears Song, We Will Go Together -6 Joy Harjo
Trail of a Thousand Tears – Shannon Thunderbird & Sandy Horne
Trail of Tears – Clannad
Cherokee Bend – Gordon Lightfoot
Cherokee Morning Song – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Prayer for My People – Jay Red Eagle
For Those Who Cried (Cherokee Removal) – Jack Gladstone
Trail Of Freedom – Bill Miller
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Human Rights, New Mexico, playlist
Tagged as chair stretching, Cherokee, indigenous peoples, La Cueva neighborhood, morning movement, Native Americans, Saint Oscar Romero, Trail of Tears, waling
September 30, 2024 · 3:40 pm
30 September is observed in Canada as The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and generational impact committed on First Nations peoples by the Canadian Indian residential school system. It has expanded in the United State as a day to remember the atrocities and generational impact inflicted by the U.S. boarding school system on Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples of Australia had a similar experience.
Walking. Germantown. Schnitzelburg.
Lost Souls – Tom Jackson Lost Souls
Residential School Song (Indian Boarding School Song) – Cheryl Bear
Child of the Government – Jayli Wolf
BEFORE – A Tribe Called Red, feat. Joseph Boyden
Apatapasiq – Mike Bern
Battlefields – Twin Flames
Savage Mob – Snotty Nose Rez Kids, feat. Nooky & Birdz
open window – nêhiyawak
Took the Children Away – Archie Roach, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky & Ruby Hunter (the Australian Indigenous experience)
Take Me Home – Indian City
Spirit Horses – Annie Humphrey
The Land of the Blind – Ira Provost
Why Us – N’we Jinan Artists
500 Years – Rhonda Head
Residential School – Jerry Alfred & The Medicine Beat
Cut My Hair – Digging Roots
Residential School – Chris Pierce
For Our Children – Bryan Akipa
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
Tagged as Australia, boarding schools, Canada, First Nations, Germantown, indigenous peoples, Orange Shirt Day, residential schools, Schnitzelburg, The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, United States, walking
August 9, 2024 · 9:14 pm
Morning movement.
Pacing. Apartment.
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Tuva Kazhangnar – Tuva Folk Ensemble
He Toa Takitini / Ka Tohia Atu Koe / Ki Okoiki – Maori People Of New Zealand
Ayoro Kotan – Matsuko
Busigan (Shame) – Las Golondrinas Viajeras
Kantus De Apacheta – K’antu Ensemble
Máhte Lemet Elle – Ole Larsen Gaino
Sote Tulifurahia Kama Siku Ya Arusi – Hukwe Ubi Zawose With Ensemble
Stick Game Song – Bad Canyon Wellpinit Singers
Untitled (Iran) – Indigenous Turkmen People
Batara Guru – Gondang Sabangunan Ensemble
Lelore – Wodaabe Of Dakoro
Mbumbusa (Warrior’s Cry) – Honiata Musicians Of Guadalcanal Island
Vinango (Voyage By Canoe) – Villagers From Panueli, Island Of Savo
Ejengi Ceremony – Ba-Benjellé Pygmies Of The Central African Republic
Nazirkhom – Raman Sawut & Osman Oskur
No’ôk-‘amor – Central Mekrâgnoti Of Brazil
Akuka (Tubuan Dance) – Tolai Musicians
Gending Sekar Gabund (Excerpt) – Gamelan Salunding
Màrsi Màlasri – Jyàpu musicians of Guita Tol
Imìna Imìna – Indigenous Inuit People
Navssâpaluk Sadorana – Indigenous Inuit People
Son Sventa N’ahual San Lorenzo – Lol Gomez, Xun Perez, and Mariano Santis Hernandez
Koroghlu – Ashiq Hasan
Rashaida Dance – Indigenous Rashaida People
Gyütò Tantra (Excerpt) – Monks Of Gyütò Tantric College
Ghungsgot Thonpo (The High Sky) – Tashi Palkit & Isewang Namgyal Kidar
Bisitaita (Song Of Consolation) – Bunun People of Taiwan
Danse Des Toka Nod (Tiga)- Kanak People of New Caledonia
Dalubun (Love Song) – Tjoli Laiwongka & Tom Yorkdjanki
Apu Peikussian – Florent Vollant
The Unforgotten – iskwē, feat. Tanya Tagaq
Shine – Sihasin
July 12, 2024 · 5:14 pm
Walking. Apartment.
American Indian Movement founded.
Opening Song for the Maker – Joy Harjo
Evolution Revolution – Indigenous
Witnesses: Dreaming a Life – R. Carlos Nakai
The Prayer – Supaman
American Indian Movement Song – Blackfire
In the River: A Protest Song – Raye Zaragoza
I Pity the Country – Willie Dunn
We Are the Halluci Nation – A Tribe Called Red, feat. John Trudell & Northern Voices
A.I.M. Song/B.I.A. Song – American Indian Movement Singers
A.I.M. – Ode’min Kwe Singers
Sacrifice – Robbie Robertson
Freedom – Ras Kass & Dj Free Leonard
Antipatriarca – Ana Tijoux
Indigena – Aztlan Underground
Red Winter – Drezus
June 25, 2023 · 2:16 pm
Walking. Germantown. Shelby Park.
Battle of the Greasy Grass.
Wash Your Spirit Clean – Walela
Sitting Bull’s Medicine Song – Kevin Locke
It’s a Good Day to Die – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Lakota Forever – Brule
The Little Bighorn March – Bill Miller
Tatanka – Luis Cachiguango
Garryowen & Valley of the Little Big Horn – Jack Gladstone
Buffalo Prayer Song – Robert Tree Coy & Hovia Edwards
Crazy Horse Prayer – Peter Kater, feat. R. Carlos Nakai
Little Big Horn Battle Song – Porcupine Singers
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse – Thunder Bird Sisters
Sitting Bull’s Sundance – Dan McGrath
Battle of Little Big Horn – Sencheng Zhang
Battle of Little Bighorn – RedCloud
Along the Graybeard Trail 