In the first half-hour of this repeat edition of “First Voices Radio,” Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse talks with Mike Bravo, a fifth generation Chicano-Mexihca living in Venice, California. Mike is a former graffiti artist who now does web and graphic design. For the past 15 years he has been heavily involved in Indigenous Spiritual Activism by hosting educational and spiritual events and programs focusing on reconnecting Urban Native-Indigenous youth with their Indigenous traditions and identity. 

Four years ago Mike started a web site called Sixth Sun Riders, www.6thsunridaz.com, as a way to engage urban Native youth and provide a more traditional and spiritual alternative to the inundation of western academic misrepresentation on the Internet.

In the second half-hour, Pura Fé is a Native singer-songwriter, musician, composer, seamstress, teacher and activist. She is the founding member of the world renowned Native American women’s a capella trio, Ulali. Pura Fé has been the recipient of honors, including a Juno Award nomination for “Best Global Recording” in 1994 and a Native American Music Award for “Best Female Artist” in 2006, to name just a few.

Pura Fé has lent her voice to many environmental and Indigenous rights groups and campaigns, including the “Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign” in 2013 and “Honor the Earth, Love Water Not Oil Tour” with Winona LaDuke in 2014.  She marched with Ulali Project in the front lines of the People’s Climate March singing the song, "Idle No More," which she co-wrote with Cary Morin for the Idle No More movement.

Pura Fé currently performs internationally with her band and the Deer Clan Singers. More information at www.purafe.com

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