The Smoke Signals Radio Show Archive Project

Abstract

In this multimedia report we introduce our ongoing collaborative archival project to organize, describe, and provide access to digitized audio files from the long-running Indigenous radio broadcast called Smoke Signals, produced and hosted by Indigenous activists, community leaders, educators, and Elders Dan Smoke and Mary Lou Smoke.

Listening With/in Context

“…4 Within a year, they were offered their own recurring timeslot on the station, and Smoke Signals has continued ever since. Dan Smoke, a member of the Seneca Nation, Killdeer Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory; and Mary Lou Smoke, a member of the Ojibway Nation, Bear Clan, from Batchawana Bay on Lake Superior; have carved a space for meaningful discourse to showcase the multifaceted and diverse forms of Indigeneity for widespread audiences in local, national, and international communities (Rothbauer et. al.…”