Description:
American Indian Airwaves is produced by Coyote Radio and was established in 1988 in order to give indigenous peoples and their respective first nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Colonialism and Imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Latin and South America countries located therein.

Credits:
Hosts: Helen Herrera, Marcus V. Lopez, Georgiana Valoyce Sanchez, and Larry Smith Corey S. Dubin Executive Producer: Coyote Radio Corey Dubin has been a journalist for 26 years. In the early 1980s He free-lanced covering Latin America and the Pacific Rim. In the mid 1980s he was News & Public Affairs Director for KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles. He then, in 1987 joined the Other Americas Radio as a senior documentary producer. Along with Eric Swartz TOA produced a wide range of cutting edge programs on Latin America, Iran-Contra and related issues. He also produced specials for Pacifica's Iran-Contra coverage. In 1989 Dubin founded Coyote Radio and has been producing programming throughout the 1990s and into the current period. In 1992 Coyote Radio and American Indian Airwaves joined forces and produced a twenty hour special for KPFK entitled ?Break The Blackout: 500 Years of Resistance? He also remains the President of the Committee of Ten Thousand a national HIV/AIDS advocacy and support organization headquartered in Washington D.C. Helen Herrera was born in Chicago, IL and has lived in Los Angles for 30 years. Helen has been, and continues to be, active locally and nationally in supporting sacred sites, cultural renewal and is currently involved with ?Survival Kitchens for Indigenous Groups Facing Toxic Waste and Land Rights?. Helen can be reached at grammax3@hotmail.com. Marcus V. Lopez (Chumash Nation) is the Producer and Co-host of Coyote Radio?s: American Indian Airwaves and has been a community organizer for over 20 years. Georgiana Valoyce Sanchez (Chumash/ Tohono & Pima O?odham Nation). She teaches at California State University, Long Beach for American Indian Studies and is a nationally published writer, storyteller, and member of the California Indian Storytellers Association. She also is very active in the preservation of California Indian Languages and Sacred Sites. Larry Smith (Lumbee Nation) is a part-time lecturer at California State University, Long Beach and teaches for the Film Electronic and Arts and American Indian Studies Departments. He is also a member of Ti?at Society and the Wildhorse Singers located in Long Beach, CA. He is also a community activist and can be reached at burnt.swamp@verizon.net