Native Roots Radio Presents I’m Awake – September 1, 2021

Today’s hosts are Robert Pilot, Wendy Pilot, Ogimaa Giniw Ikwe and Louis Eagle Thunder. Ogimaa has our news today she highlights how Indigenous resistance disrupted over 3 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually and legal action brought by water protectors in a tribal court (White Earth Nation) against Enbridge. We also take your calls on wild rice, tribal sovereignty and the lawsuit borough against Enbridge in White Earth’s tribal court. Then Bob Blake has the solar news from Solar Bear. He talks about the declining demand for oil, the Navajo Nation possibly purchasing a coal power plant, Tesla filing to sell electricity directly to Texas consumers and more! In our sacred animals section Wendy updates us on the horse roundup in Utah. And we finish Wendy’s bear quiz!