“Indigenous for Days”: Indigenous Internationalism in Native American Music Radio

Abstract

This article identifies and explores community-building in Indigenous music radio, drawing on music programming examples and practitioner insights from two Indigenous radio stations: KPRI FM and KSUT FM. The article considers ways in which multifaceted music programming across the two stations embodies the concept of grounded normativity (Coulthard and Betasamosake Simpson) and expands capacities for tribal community-building on-air, in turn reinforcing a cultural Indigenous internationalism. In particular, this article argues that Rez Dub Reggae and Songs of the Southwest at KPRI and the Tribal Radio Morning Show at KSUT enable and encourage Indigenous community-building through place-based practices of music radio production which in turn embody possibilities for Indigenous resurgence (Corntassel).