"Indigenous Politics": Coal Controversy & the Northern Cheyenne Tribe

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INDIGENOUS POLITICS: FROM NATIVE NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND
Radio Program on WESU, Middletown , CT

Tuesdays 4-5 PM EST

Listen Online While the Show Airs: www.wesufm.org
 
On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, for an episode
of "Indigenous Politics" that will examine a controversial plan to mine coal on lands
adjacent to the Northern Cheyenne reservation.  Southeast of Ashland , MT in Powder
River County , the Otter Creek Coal Tracts contain more than 1.2 billion acres of
unmined coal, half of which is part of Montana school trust land.  In December 2009,
the State Land Board voted (4-1) to call for bids on the coal. This week the answers to
call for Otter Creek bids will be in, and both proponents and opponents will learn
more about the market for this huge coal reserve.  All three guests on the show are
opposed this plan: Steve Brady (Northern Cheyenne Tribe), Chairman of the Northern
Cheyenne Cultural Commission; and Alexis Bonogofsky, Senior Coordinator of the Tribal
Lands Conservation Program of the National Wildlife Federation; and Philip Whiteman
(Northern Cheyenne Tribe), co-founder of Yellow Bird, a Native non-profit organization.
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This show is syndicated on select Pacifica-affiliate stations: WPKN in Bridgeport, CT
and Montauk, NY; 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 archived online:
www.indigenouspolit ics.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). http://jkauanui. faculty.wesleyan .edu

[bschumacher]

The Northern Cheyenne tribe should immediately start to get information about this out to the public. They should organize petition drives and e-mail campaigns. They also should post YouTube videos on the subject.