Producer & Host: Martha Fast Horse (Lakota)
Special Guest: Barbara Elk (Dakota)
Featured Song: “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”by Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Barbara is a full-blood Dakota woman originally from Sioux Valley reserve in Manitoba, Canada. As a writer, Barbara conveys her many experiences and the painful upheavals she endured as a child through her fictional stories and poems.
At the tender age of five, she was taken from her loving birth family and since then, spent her childhood in foster homes, an orphanage, two adoption homes and ultimately, two psychiatric hospitals.
Throughout the years, with help from teachers, friends and special mentors, she discovered her passion and gift of writing. Barbara shares and expresses herself utilizing her humor and positive attitude within the content of each story and poem in hopes of helping others through life’s difficult situations.
Aside from her writings, Barbara is also a speaker and has spoken to people of all ages from children to adults. You can find her work on Barbaraelk.com
Barbara shares about Life on the reserve and time spent with her loving, biological family
Time spent away after being taken off the reserve during the infamous Sixties Scoop (The practice of removing large numbers of aboriginal children from their families and giving them over to white middle-class parents was discontinued in the mid-’80s, after Ontario chiefs passed resolutions against it and a Manitoba judicial inquiry harshly condemned it.)
The passion for writing and her reasons for all of her stories.
Speaking engagements in order to influence and inform others about what happened to thousands of Native children from across Canada – destruction of Native families/communities and culture.
Special Thanks: Justin Severson, Engineer & Talent. Paul Hoffinger, Production Assistant. Rick Bernardo, Performance Coach with Professional Performance Programs. Citadel Broadcasting, Mothers World Media, Inc. & The Institute of Production & Recording.
For More Information Contact: Martha Fast Horse 612-619-6797
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The Martha Fast Horse Show is a Public & Cultural Affairs Radio Program of Fast Horse Productions, airing every Sunday morning at 6:00 AM CST on KQRS (KQ92) 92.5 FM, KXXR (93X) 93.7 FM & WGVX (LOVE 105) 105.1 FM in the Twin Cities. Streaming online at www.kqrs.com, www.93x.com & www.love105.fm
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