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Guests Amber-Dawn Bear Robe and Orlando Dugi discuss the 2021 Santa Fe Indian Market Gala Fashion Show.

Nativescape welcomes Amber-Dawn Bear Robe (Siksika Nation), the producer of SWAIA’s 9th Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show. Since 1922, the Santa Fe Indian Market has been drawing visitors to New Mexico’s cultural hub every August to see and buy work, including sculpture and paintings, jewelry, and beadwork from Indigenous artists representing more than 200-plus federally recognized tribes. SWAIA’s Indian Market Haute Couture Fashion Show is one of the premier showcases for North American indigenous fashion designers in the world. Progressive in the way it presents fashion, it also reflects the style and thoughts of contemporary Indigenous people and is one of the most important cultural moments of the year. Wheelwright Museum Board Member Amber-Dawn Bear Robe is an Assistant Faculty of Art History in the Museum Studies department at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). Her curatorial practice which focuses on Fashion, includes a recent exhibition entitled, Art of Indigenous Fashion which was at the IAIA’s Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, two exhibitions in process at the Autry Museum of the American West, CA and the Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada. She was awarded regional Emmys in 2020 and 2021, as the producer for two documentary short films on Indigenous fashion. She is an acting trustee for the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) board.

Join Host Dr. Michelle Stizza in a conversation with New Mexico State University’s Diabetes Management and Prevention Program Team(Diabetes MAPP) Cassandra Vanderpool MS, RDN, LD; NMSU’s Kitchen Creations Program Manager, Dr. Lucinda Banegas-Carreon MPH, CHES ; NMSU’s National Diabetes Prevention Program Manager, and Lourdes Olivas, MA ; NMSU’s On the Road to Living Well with Diabetes Program Manager to learn more about food stigmas, cultural traditions, and diabetes.

Guests: Andraéa LaVant and Stacey Park, Producers of Crip Camp Impact

On today’s program, we are talking about food sovereignty global corporate food systems with Indra Shekhar Singh, an independent agri-policy analyst from India and who is visiting the US on a lecture tour to raise awareness of the farmers’ revolution in India and global agrarian movements.

Brenda Martínez and Vanessa Porter from NM Café talk about the mechanics of organizing communities on the southern border.

This week on CinemaScope, Nazneen interviews Matt Walsh and Alejandro Montoya Marin.

Born in Laredo, Texas and raised in Mexico, Alejandro began his career in film by studying at the prestigious Vancouver Film School. In 2018, he was hand selected by director Robert Rodriguez to be a participant in his documentary series "REBEL WITHOUT A CREW". The film he produced on the show, "MONDAY", was screened at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. Alejandro’s follow-up feature film, "Millennium Bugs", was crowdfunded and ultimately distributed by Indican Pictures. In 2022, he was inducted into the New Mexico Film Hall Of fame. The following year, 2023, he co-starred in Eva Longoria's film “Flamin’ Hot” and joined the Directors Guild of America. His third feature film, “The Unexpecteds”, was selected by Los Angeles Times as “one of 8 films to watch at the 2024 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival”, by renowned film reviewer Carlos Aguilar. He's currently at work on his fourth feature film “90 days in the 90’s”, based on the novel of the same name.

An exquisite, full color book, Grandmothers’ Wisdom: Living Portrayals from The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers marks the 20th Anniversary of the formation of the Council. To celebrate with me is Deborah Parrish Snyder of Synergetic Press who worked over several years with compilers and editors Marisol Villanueva and Molly Suggs to bring the book to life. And Heather Hall Dudney, daughter of New Mexico’s own Grandmother Flordemayo who herself carries a depth of wisdom handed down through generations of her family. Five of the Grandmothers will be present at a very special Gathering, We Are All Related beginning October 24th at Buffalo Thunder Hilton on the Pueblo of Pojoaque along with Dr. Vandana Shiva and other renowned guests presenters. Details of the Gathering at www.weareallrelated.earth. And for Deborah and the book go to www.synergeticpress.com or your favorite local bookstore.

Trump made a fateful choice in the early morning hours of Dec. 19, 2020, days after the Electoral College voted, to choose a path that led to the insurrection on Jan. 6.