Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with three guests in this edition of “First Voices Radio” — filmmaker Toby McLeod, water protector Cheryl Angel and elder and activist Ofelia Rivas. Tiokasin’s first guest Toby McLeod circled the globe for five years filming the “Standing on Sacred Ground” series. He founded the Sacred Land Film Project in 1984 to make high-impact documentary films relevant to indigenous communities and modern audiences. Toby produced and directed In the Light of Reverence (P.O.V., 2001) and other award-winning documentary films: The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?, Downwind/Downstream, and NOVA: Poison in the Rockies. In 1990, he produced Voices of the Land as a 20-minute preview of Standing on Sacred Ground. His awards include the Council on Foundation’s Henry Hampton Award, the John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking and a Student Academy Award in 1983. His first film was The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn—with Edward Abbey and Earth First! Toby has a master’s degree from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in American History from Yale. www.sacredland.org, www.standingonsacredground.org. This week, Toby screens two of his films in the "Standing on Sacred Ground" series at Yale University. Tiokasin’s second guest is Cheryl Angel, a lifelong, devoted water protector who has been part of the Standing Rock Camp since April 2016 and was vital in helping stop the Keystone XL Pipeline. Cheryl's voice among the water protectors is one of integrating deep prayer with direct action, guiding two women-led actions at Standing Rock. She moves from a deep space of non-violence and love, as guided by her ancestors, Lakota traditions and ways of being. Cheryl is speaking on a panel at the opening of the exhibition “Killing the Black Snake—Resistance at Standing Rock (Oct. 30-Dec. 6, 2016): Photographs by Stephanie Keith.” The event is taking place at the Hemispheric Institute (NYU) in New York City on Thursday, March 30, from 6 to 9 p.m. http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/hemispheric-new-york-events. Tiokasin’s third guest Ofelia Rivas is an elder and activist from the Tohono O'odham Nation. She is Founder of O'odham Voice Against the Wall. Tiokasin and Ofelia will talk about the March 25, 2017 article by Brenda Norrell in Censored News, “Traditional O’odham in Sonora, Mexico, Protest Trump’s Border Wall on O’odham Land”: http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2017/03/traditional-oodham-in-mexico-protest.html

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