KFAI's Indian Uprising for May 15th

Guest is Cris Stainbrook (Lakota), President of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation located in Little Canada, Minnesota. The mission of the Foundation is to ensure that "land within the original boundaries of every reservation and other areas of high significance where tribes retain aboriginal interest are in Indian ownership and management."

American Indians face issues of checkerboard reservations, fractionation of land and diminishment of land.  Within the Upper Great Plains and Pacific Northwest states, there are 15.7 million acres of tribal and individual Indian trust land.  This is down 81 percent from the original treaty acreage of 81.3 million acres.  Opportunity to utilize the land base as an economic engine has been greatly diminished.

The ILTF is having a world premiere showing of their documentary, American Indian Homelands, hosted and narrated by Sam Donaldson, a thirty year broadcast journalist for ABC.  This fund raising event is being held at the Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, on May 19th.  VIP reception is at 6:00 p.m.  Meet Donaldson and film participants at the buffet.  Public reception is at 6:30.  Film showing at 7:45. There is limited seating.  Deadline to reserve and purchase tickets is May 16th.  Call 651-766-8999 or go online at www.indianlandtenure.org and click Events.

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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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