On this week’s show we take a look at the ways that Native Americans used sound technology during radio’s earliest days and how that inspired and led to the flourishing Native media landscape, including tribal radio stations. Our guest, Josh Garrett-Davis, is Associate Curator at the Autry Museum and author of a recently completed dissertation: Resounding Voices: Native Americans and Sound Media, 1890-1970.

Show Notes:

• Josh Garrett-Davis website: http://www.joshgarrettdavis.com/
• Autry Museum of the American West website: https://theautry.org/
• Resounding Voices: Native Americans and Sound Media, 1890-1970: https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp018910jx50x
• The “Tribal Drum” of Radio: Gathering Together the Archive of American Indian Radio (piece on Sounding Out!) https://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/02/19/the-tribal-drum-of-radio-gathering-together-the-archive-of-american-indian-radio/
• KILI radio, the voice of the Lakota Nation: http://www.kiliradio.org/
• KINI radio: https://www.kiniradio.com/
• Radio Free Alcatraz: https://pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bb545701-bb545740
• Native American Activism on the Airwaves with the “Seeing Red” Radio Archive: https://historyhub.history.gov/community/american-indian-records/blog/2020/08/10/native-american-activism-on-the-airwaves-with-the-seeing-red-radio-archive
• More details about the “Indians for Indians Hour”: https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/IndiansForIndians.pdf
• Michael Keith’s book, Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America https://www.amazon.com/Signals-Air-Broadcasting-America-Society/dp/0275948765
• Podcast #221: The Intertwined History of the Radio and Recording Industries with guest Kyle Barnett: https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/11/26/podcast-221-the-intertwined-history-of-the-radio-and-recording-industries/
• Podcast #186: African-American Preachers on Wax with guest Lerone Martin https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/03/27/podcast-186-african-american-preachers-on-wax/
• Podcast #190: Radio Spectrum and Transmission Art with guest Amanda Dawn Christie https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/04/24/podcast-190-radio-spectrum-and-transmission-art/
• Podcast #122: The Popular Community Radio Movement in Argentina https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/12/26/podcast-122-popular-community-radio-movement-argentina/
• Native Voices over the Airwaves exhibition page at University Libraries at University of Oklahoma https://libraries.ou.edu/content/native-voices-over-airwaves-exhibition-recordings-available-nov-14
• Details about David Goren’s BBC documentary about community radio stations around the world, including one from the Navajo Nation: https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2021/02/15/listen-to-this-bbc-documentary-about-5-community-stations-around-the-world/
• Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295741826/network-sovereignty/
• Podcast #103 – The Popular Community Radio Movement in Argentina – https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2017/08/09/podcast-103-popular-community-radio-movement-argentina/

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