Archive for September, 2010
Monday, September 27th, 2010
If you’ve heard our show before, you’ve heard the intimate letters residents have written to the place they call home. We feature these Dear ___ letters on the show, and here on the website, and we encourage anyone of you to write your own letter to your hometown.
Marian Naranjo is the eldest daughter of eight siblings, a mother of four children and a grandmother of six grandchildren. She’s a traditional potter and tribal member of Santa Clara Pueblo, located in north-central New Mexico in the area known to the nineteen sovereign Pueblo Nations and archeologists as the Tewa Basin. Marian says she claims her “ancestry from our last migration from the Puye cliff dwellings, located to the west within the Jemez Mountains. Within and around the four mountain ranges that surround the Tewa Basin are the sacred aboriginal ancestral homelands of the Pueblo peoples, my people, who have been the caretakers and guardians of these places for millennium.” (more…)
Tags: Al Letson, Espanola, npr, prx, Public Radio, sotru, State of the Re:Union, tewa basin
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Downtown Williamson, West Virginia
In coal country, environmental issues are often represented as a battle in which for one side to win and the other to lose. You’re either for coal or against it. You’re either with the “tree-hugging environmentalists,” or with the miners. Well, on SOTRU’s recent trip to Appalachia, we heard about one town in West Virginia that’s finding a compromise in that normally polarizing debate. (more…)
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
Tags: Al Letson, LA, Los Angeles, mariachi, npr, prx, Public Radio, sotru, State of the Re:Union
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Tags: Al Letson, hmong hip-hop, minneapolis, npr, prx, Public Radio, sotru, st. paul, State of the Re:Union, Twin Cities
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Tags: acequias, Al Letson, Espanola, low riders, lowriders, new mexico, npr, prx, Public Radio, sotru, State of the Re:Union
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Marian Naranjo is the eldest daughter of eight siblings, a mother of four children and a grandmother of six grandchildren. She’s a traditional potter and tribal member of Santa Clara Pueblo, located in north-central New Mexico in the area known to the nineteen sovereign Pueblo Nations and archeologists as the Tewa Basin. Marian says she claims her “ancestry from our last migration from the Puye cliff dwellings, located to the west within the Jemez Mountains. Within and around the four mountain ranges that surround the Tewa Basin are the sacred aboriginal ancestral homelands of the Pueblo peoples, my people, who have been the caretakers and guardians of these places for millennium.” (more…)
