KFAI's Indian Uprising for March 20th

White Earth members seek ban on genetically modified wild rice by Tom Robertson, Minnesota Public Radio, March 8, 2005.  The lakes and rivers on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota are an ideal habitat for wild rice. But the tribe is worried that resource could be threatened by the science of genetic engineering. White Earth has become the first reservation in the country to ban the introduction or growth of genetically-modified wild rice seeds. Some White Earth Band members want to take it one step further. They want the Legislature to ban genetically modified wild rice statewide.
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/03/08_robertsont_wildrice/

For further information regarding the protection of wild rice, contact Sarah Alexander of the White Earth Land Recovery Project at 218-573-3448 , 218-234-1951, salexander@welrp.org.

KFAI Spring 2005 Pledge Drive Saturday, March 12th through 25th.  To make a pledge, call 612-375-9030 or go online at www.kfai.org.  KFAI, a non-profit public community radio has a goal to raise $106,700, to support station operations.  Premium gifts are for those pledging at least $75 on Indian Uprising in addition to regular Thank You gifts for other donations.  The premiums are books and videos: We have the Right to Exist: A translation of Aboriginal Indigenous thought from an Ahishinahbaeojibway perspective by Wub-e-ke-niew ; Walking With The Devil: What bad cops don't want you to know and good cops won't tell you by Michael W. Quinn of Minneapolis;  The Great Spirit Within the Hole and Our Sacred Land documentaries by Chris Spotted Eagle.

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Indian Uprising is a one-half hour Public & Cultural Affairs radio program for, by, and about Indigenous people & all their relations, broadcast each Sunday at 4:00 p.m. over KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul.  Current programs are archived online after broadcast at www.kfai.org, for two weeks.  Click Program Archives and scroll to Indian Uprising to hear them.

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