KPFA - Bay Native Circle

KPFA - Bay Native Circle

The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine.

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September 16, 2026 59 mins
This week on Bay Native Circle, we learn more about the MMIP case of Timothy Charles Lee. Timmy was an aspiring fashion design student from Berkeley. After getting stuck at the Concord BART station on his way home one night, his body was found hung in a tree the next day. The community has organized a fashion show to be held this Saturday in Walnut Creek. And we close out the show with a report from kpfa’s news director, Laur...
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In honor of Leonard Peltier’s birthday coming up on September 12th, Tony Gonzales introduces an interview conducted with Leonard by Democracy Now!’s host Amy Goodman, this was “his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has alwa...
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This is Morning Star Gali. Tonight’s program features an update by Amy Juan of the International Treaty Council about the situation at the Tohono O’dam Reservation Border.  Please follow the updates that our news department is reporting on also.  We will also have an update on AB18181, along with some statements from the press conference related to AB18181. From the conference we will hear from the Vice-...
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Tonight’s radio program “Bay Native Circle” August 26th 2026, Tony Gonzales interviewed David Garcia, enrolled member of the Tohono’ Oodam Tribal nation, about a federal court decision rendered August 14, 2026 that denied blocking its decision to construct the Wall across their 62 mile reservation on the southern border with Mexico. Tony Gonzales  also interviewed Joey Williams of the Kawaiisu Tribe of ...
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August 19, 2026 59 mins
Our first guest Julian Brave NoiseCat is an Oakland-raised author who has garnered wide acclaim and awards for his first book We Survived the Night.  The first indigenous filmmaker in history nominated for an Academy Award, he talks with us about his moving documentary Sugarcane which lays bare the horrific abuses of Canadian residential schools, focusing on the one where his own family members were sent and where his infant f...
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August 12, 2026 59 mins
Host Dr. Eddie Madril opens with a beautiful Peyote prayer song, then interviews local chef Crystal Wahpepah about her Oakland restaurant Wahpepah’s Kitchen, and shares a community calendar. The show closes with a Press conference held Tuesday on the Capitol Grounds with California native leaders including Assemblymember James Ramos and Indigenous Justice founder and BNC host Morning Star Gali about the unacceptable delays of...
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August 5, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Eddie Madril, Janeen Antoine and Tony Gonzales. Morning Star’s stand in hosts are Sabah Williams and Loyen Red Hawk, producer Cathy Jackson, executive producer Janeen Antoine. This week Morning Star focuses on Education with opening comments from Ri...
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Tony Gonzalez, is your host tonight, on July 29, 2026. And this evening, my relatives, tonight being July and all. All across Indian country is a time for renewal and with ceremonies all across the land, such as in California, with the Bear Dance ceremonies going on. And in the plains region, such as in South Dakota, where the Sun Dances are during this time, I want to play you a lecture by, Richard Moves Camp, a spiritual man. He...
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Janeen Antoine opens the show with a song sung by a Kanaka Maoli man,  Sonny Hirakawa, whom she met near Hilo on the island of Hawaii on July 4, the 250th celebration of the U.S. Independence Day. Driving from the town of Volcano near the active Kilauea Crater, she was thinking to find some good trouble in Hilo, near the birthplace of King Kamehaha,  the legendary warrior and chief who unified the Hawaiian Islands in 1810...
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Morning Star Gali examines AB 1881, the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026, with guests discussing how the proposed legislation would strengthen protections for Indigenous religious practices, sacred places, and cultural confidentiality on state lands. The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali,...
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July 1, 2026 59 mins
Morning Star Gali examines AB 1881, the California Indian Freedom Act of 2026, with guests discussing how the proposed legislation would strengthen protections for Indigenous religious practices, sacred places, and cultural confidentiality on state lands. The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali,...
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This episode of Bay Native Circle features recordings from a community tribute honoring longtime Indigenous activist Bill Means, along with reflections on his legacy, prayers for his recovery, and interviews with Bill Means, Lakota Harden, Richard Moves Camp, William “Jimbo” Simmons, and Elder Priscilla Young. The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples,...
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In this episode of Bay Native Circle host Janeen Antoine presents the producers of a soon to be premiered 10 part documentary series titled People of the West.  Executive producers Brad Munoa and Nico Magee,  both Pechanga tribal members,  have pulled together with the support of the Pechanga Tribe an incredibly talented film team and native authorities to create a complete and accurate accounting of the buried histo...
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June 10, 2026 59 mins
On today’s episode of Bay Native Circle, host Eddie Madril welcomes Jackie Keliiaa — stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and producer — for a conversation you don’t want to miss. Plus cool Native tunes to keep it moving throughout the hour. The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Sta...
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June 3, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – June 3, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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May 27, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – May 27, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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April 29, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – April 29, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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April 22, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – April 22, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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April 15, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – April 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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April 8, 2026 59 mins
The Bay Native Circle weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. The post Bay Native Circle – April 8, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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