Welcome! All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another. Each episode invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Native American peoples today. We keep it real, play some games, laugh a lot, and even cry sometimes. We invite you to join us!
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Access Utah is UPR's original program focusing on the things that matter to Utah. The hour-long show airs live Monday-Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Access Utah covers everything from pets to politics in a range of formats from in-depth interviews to call-in shows. Email us at upraccess@gmail.com or call at 1-800-826-1495. Join the discussion!
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The podcast companion to the series exploring thousands of years of visual culture.
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Amplifying narratives of intersection, solidarity, contradiction & inspiration in the Arts. Broken Boxes shares the lived experiences and world building strategies of contemporary Artists in order to archive collective strength while considering how Art and imagining may unbind us from collective social trauma. This independent artist run long-form interview podcast reflects the vulnerability and strength of the Artist while acknowledging the many variations of an Artists practiced values in ...
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Changing the way we see Native America with Matika Wilbur on Access Utah
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Aired Sept. 4. In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and created Project 562 to photograph all 562+ Native American sovereign territories in the U.S.By Tom Williams
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Our guest today is the Founder of Indigenous Performance Productions, Andre Bouchard (of Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Oreille/Flathead Salish descent). The Aunties is coming to the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan on April 5, 7:30pm. This is part of a Utah Humanities Grant, in partnership with UtahPresents/Kingsbury Hall. This show is part of the CacheARTS …
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Revisiting 'The cultural roots of America's political crisis' on Access Utah
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We revisit our conversation with James Davison Hunter. He who introduced the concept of “culture wars” 30 years ago, and tells us in this new book that historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved.By Tom Williams
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'Water Bodies' with Laura Paskus on Monday's Access Utah
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Today we’ll talk with Laura Paskus, editor of the new book Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth.By Tom Williams
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'Remember the 43 Students' on Thursday's Access Utah
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Marking the 10-year anniversary of when 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College students disappeared southwest of Mexico City, Utah Tech University is commemorating the victims’ lives with Remember the 43 Students art installations and campus engagement events. Our guests are composer and musician Andres Solis, and Scot Hanna-Weir, Associate Professor…
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'Cache Valley Remembers: The 9/11 Project' on Wednesday's Access Utah
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On this episode, join Tom Williams live on location from the event at the Hansen Family Sports Complex in North Logan. His guests included the organizer of the 9/11 event Jenny Taylor, who is the Gold Star Widow of Utah Army National Guard Major Brent Taylor. He was also joined by the designer of the 9/11 exhibit Johnny Ferry, who is a Major Brent …
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Revisiting the true story of a Grand Canyon misadventure on Access Utah
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Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. We’ll revisit our conversation with Kevin Fedarko from May.By Tom Williams
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Access Utah: Revisiting The Donner Party And 'The Best Land Under Heaven' With Author Michael Wallis
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We revisit our conversation with Author Michael Wallis from June of 2017 about his book 'The Best Land Under Heaven'.By Tom Williams
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Aired Sept. 3. In "The Peanuts Papers," 33 writers and artists, including Ira Glass and Ann Patchett, reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.By Tom Williams
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Moab Music Festival special on Friday's Access Utah
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Tom Williams is in Moab for a special Access Utah program celebrating the Moab Music Festival. Our guests today include Maya Miro Johnson, Roydon Tse, and Connor Chee, along with John Weisheit, Co-Founder at Living Rivers and a Colorado Riverkeeper and Howard Dennis, Howard is a religious leader, a Flute Chief, and a clan leader from the village of…
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'Without Exception' with Pam Houston on Tuesday's Access Utah
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Today we’ll talk with writer Pam Houston about her new book Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom.By Tom Williams
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'The World Until Yesterday' with Jared Diamond on Access Utah
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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things.By Tom Williams
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Helen Thayer's life of adventure on Access Utah
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Helen Thayer once walked 4,000 miles across the Sahara from Morocco to the Nile River, kayaked 2,200 miles of the Amazon River, and became the first woman to travel alone to any of the world's poles.By Tom Williams
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'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Access Utah
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Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."By Tom Williams
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'The Klansman’s Son': A memoir of renouncing white nationalism on Access Utah
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Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first white supremacist website.By Tom Williams
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We’re compiling another UPR community booklist and we want to know what you’re reading. What’s on your nightstand or device right now?By Tom Williams
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Building peace in our neighborhoods, our nation, and our world on Access Utah
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In the midst of a contentious presidential election year, many of us are feeling the need for increased peace in the world, the nation, our neighborhoods, families, and in our hearts.By Tom Williams
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'The Wind Knows My Name' with Isabel Allende on Access Utah
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On this episode we revisit our conversation with novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende about her latest book.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'All The Light We Cannot See' On Wednesday's Access Utah
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Anthony Doerr’s' All the Light We Cannot See' was published in May 2014 and in September of that year Anthony Doerr visited Utah for several events as a part of the Utah Humanities Book Festival. We revisit our conversation from then.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting The Marks Nature Leaves In Us With Gary Ferguson On Wednesday's Access Utah
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“I began my writing career by exploring the tracks humans have left in nature. Now I’m mostly interested in the tracks nature leaves in us.” That’s author Gary Ferguson. He says that nature provides beauty, mystery and community, traits that each of us very much needs. He is the author of 25 books.By Tom Williams
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A family's story of rodeo and ranching in the new West on Access Utah
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On this episode we revisit our 2018 conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winner John Branch about cowboys, the rodeo, and traditions of the West.By Tom Williams
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Sanora Babb: Capturing the stories of migrant Dust Bowl farmworkers on Access Utah
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In "Riding Like the Wind," biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle revives the groundbreaking voice of Sanora Babb. It was Babb's field notes and oral histories of migrant farmworkers that John Steinbeck relied on to write "The Grapes of Wrath."By Tom Williams
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The horse: A galloping history of humanity on Access Utah
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Today we’ll talk with Timothy Winegard about his new book "The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity." Dr. Timothy C. Winegard is a New York Times bestselling author of five books including "The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator."By Tom Williams
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Women's tales of river rafting on Access Utah
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What do a bunch of well-seasoned river gals do on river trips without their men? Everything you might imagine, and more.By Tom Williams
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The forgotten Utah mining town of Bauer on Access Utah
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Graffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah.By Tom Williams
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'Hillbilly Elegy' with Trump's vice president pick JD Vance on Access Utah
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With former president Donald Trump’s announcement that Sen. J.D. Vance will be his running mate, we revisit our interview from October 2016 with then-bestselling-author J.D. Vance.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'Deep Creek' with Pam Houston on Access Utah
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Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, as well as two novels and a collection of essays. We revisit our conversation from September 2021.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'Chances Are...': The Vietnam War with Richard Russo on Access Utah
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On this episode we’ll revisit our conversation from August 2018 with Richard Russo about his book Chances Are…By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'Chesapeake Requiem' With Earl Swift On Tuesday's Access Utah
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We’ll revisit our conversation from August 2018 with Earl Swift, talking about his book Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.By Tom Williams
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Magic and more with Richard Hatch on Monday's Access Utah
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Our guest Richard Hatch joins us for the hour to talk about magic, as well as his recent translation of the 1933 book 'Die Juden in der Zauberkunst', or 'Jews and Magic,' from a German author killed in the holocaust.By Tom Williams
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Memes, conspiracy theories, and fake news on Access Utah
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Lynne McNeill is an associate professor at Utah State University as well as co-founder of and faculty advisor for the USU Folklore Club.By Tom Williams
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University inclusion centers close and USU Eastern employee scandal on Access Utah
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The Salt Lake Tribune recently reported that a Utah State University employee was paid for 2 years while he didn’t work. The employee at the school’s Price campus was supposed to oversee programs for local businesses.By Tom Williams
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The promising comeback of condors with Marlowe Starling on Access Utah
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Writer Marlowe Starling joined us to talk about her recent article in Deseret Magazine titled "Consider the Condor." She writes, “Once on the brink of extinction, the bald, feathered symbol of the West is making a promising comeback. If only we can get the lead out.”By Tom Williams
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Bestselling romance author RaeAnne Thayne on Access Utah
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Today our guest is northern Utah resident and bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne. She will publish her 75th book, "The December Market," later this year.By Tom Williams
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The future of the Colorado River on Access Utah
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Today we’ll check in with reporter Alex Hager. He reports for the Colorado River Reporting Project and you hear his stories regularly on UPR.By Tom Williams
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The perils of living in the Pyrocene on Access Utah
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“Today we live in a fire age in which ancient prophecies of worlds destroyed and renewed by fire have become contemporary realities, even for people living in modern cities," Stephen Pyne says.By Tom Williams
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How big box retail stores have reshaped our economy on Access Utah
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On this episode we talk with the editors of Big Box USA, which presents a new look at how the big box retail store has dramatically reshaped the U.S. economy and its ecosystems in the last half century.By Tom Williams
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Teaching and writing with Tom Romano on Access Utah
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Tom Romano taught writing and English methods in USU’s English Department from 1991-1995 and consulted with the statewide Utah Writing Project for many years. A 17-year career of high school teaching led to his first book, Clearing the Way: Working with Teenage Writers (1987).By Tom Williams
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Gardening tips with expert Dan Drost on Access Utah
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Gardening expert and UPR friend Dan Drost joined us today to answer your questions. Whether you’ve got a large backyard garden, participate in the community garden or have a small box near your window, Dan can help.By Tom Williams
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The history of climate denial and its consequences on Access Utah
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Climate change has become an unavoidable fact and an ongoing catastrophe. The science was clear decades ago. How did so many Americans come to doubt evidence so widely accepted and compelling?By Tom Williams
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The mysterious life of cougars on Access Utah
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Mountain lions are considered the apex predator of the Mountain West. Heavy hunting has reduced their number, but sightings are on the rise in Utah. Today we revisit our discussion about mysterious and misunderstood lives of cougars.By Tom Williams
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'Sleepless' with Annabel Abbs-Streets on Access Utah
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In the tradition of books like "Breath" and "Wintering," "Sleepless" combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'Sleepless' with Annabel Abbs-Streets on Access Utah
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In the tradition of books like "Breath" and "Wintering," "Sleepless" combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness.By Tom Williams
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STANKFACE STANDING SOLDIER: Conversation with Mato Wayuhi
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In this episode of Broken Boxes recurring host Cannupa Hanska Luger gets into conversation with Oglala Lakota artist Mato Wayuhi who works in both film and TV as an actor, producer and musical composer, as well as writing his own music. Mato reflects on how he first came to music as an artistic outlet and his creative inspirations and challenges as…
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The cultural roots of America's political crisis on Access Utah
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James Davison Hunter, who introduced the concept of “culture wars” 30 years ago, tells us in this new book that historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved.By Tom Williams
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The true story of a Grand Canyon misadventure with Kevin Fedarko on Access Utah
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Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications.By Tom Williams
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Historic parallels to the 2024 presidential election on Access Utah
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Today we’ll talk with historian Joshua Zeitz about some of his recent articles in Politico magazine: A Trump-Biden Tie Would Be a Political Nightmare — But Maybe a Boon to Democracy. Biden Can Still Win — If He Runs Like Harry Truman. And 4 Ex-Presidents Who Ran Again — And What They Mean for Trump.By Tom Williams
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Previewing the Northern Utah Conference to End Violence on Monday's Access Utah
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Our guests are CAPSA Social Services Director Makayla Hancey, and Emmalee Fishburn CAPSA’s Director of Projects and Initiatives.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'Becoming Ella Fitzgerald' with Judith Tick on Monday's Access Utah
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We revisit our conversation with Judith Tick about her book Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, where she offers a portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist.By Tom Williams
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Revisiting 'The Six' by Loren Grush on Thursday's Access Utah
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Loren Grush is a space reporter for Bloomberg, where she covers everything from NASA, human spaceflight, and the booming commercial space industry to distant stars and planets. The daughter of two NASA engineers, she grew up surrounded by space shuttles and rocket scientists—literally. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was a senior science reporter f…
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