Native Roots Radio Presents I’m Awake – December 9, 2021

Today’s hosts are Robert Pilot, Wendy Pilot and Ogimaa Giniw Ikwe. Ogimaa has our news today. She talks about the approaching the Dec. 14 anniversary of the first major action against Line 3, the Omicron variant leading to the cancellation of a meeting between the Pope and Canadian Indigenous leaders regarding boarding schools, redistricting in Arizona suppressing Native voters and more. Then we’re joined by Nancy Beaulieu of Bemidji 350. And later we’re joined by Robert Lilligren, Executive Director of Native American Community Development Institute. In our sacred animals segment Wendy talks about a lawsuit filed in Idaho to stop wolf trappings in the state.