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1993-02-27 Segment 1
Dan Smoke introduces Mary Pitawanakwat from Birch Island First Nations who will share her negative experiences with discrimination and harassment in the workplace and empowers all brothers and sisters to speak out. Mary shares her connection with the…
2002-09-15 Segment 1
At the start of a new academic year, Dan Smoke has some welcoming words of wisdom for students beginning their university career. Dan speaks about the importance of learning to be a critical thinker in order to create change that will make the world…
2001-04-28 Segment 4
Dan Smoke announces to listeners that in a few weeks, the Smoke Signals show will be changing from their traditional Saturday timeslot to a new time on Sunday evenings. Dan is excited about the change, as it gives him and Mary Lou the chance to…
1994-04-09 Segment 3
Dan Smoke reminds listeners to visit the first annual Welcoming the Nations Gathering held by the First Nations Student Association at the University of Western Ontario. After, Dan and Mary Lou Smoke tell listeners about their experiences at the…
1993-07-17 Segment 2
Dan Smoke teaches listeners about the importance of understanding sweetgrass as a sacred medicine, and the important role it plays in Native cultures and traditions. After, Dan turns the conversation to the findings of Leonard Peltier’s third appeal.…
1993-07-17 Segment 1
Dan and Mary Lou Smoke recall that attending the N’Amerind Powwow. Dan and guest Hal Gilpin tell listeners about the emotional experience that comes with watching the Grand Entry at a powwow. After, Dan brings listeners’ attention to the realities of…
1993-01-02 Segment 6
Mary Lou Smoke recites an elder’s teaching, a story originally told by the Chelan Indians about the creation of the animal persons and human beings. After, Dan Smoke tells listeners about recent events that occurred across the country.
1992-12-19 Segment 2
Mary Lou Smoke shares a story from Richard Wagamese about truth in storytelling and how it is important for storytellers to pass on knowledge and to learn their craft well. John Turner reads an excerpt from one of Oren Lyons’ speeches, and Dan Smoke…
1992-12-19 Segment 1
Dan Smoke discusses the gathering of the United Nations General Assembly on December 10th and two Indigenous leaders who were there to speak; Thomas Banyacya of the Hopi Nation and Oren Lyons of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. Dan…