Join your host J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an episode featuring several interviews conducted at the United Nations headquarters in NYC for the 12th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (May 20-31, 2013). The UN Permanent Forum is an advisory body to the Economic and Social Council with a mandate to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. Tune-in to hear Kauanui’s interviews with Santi Hitorangi (Ma'ohi) from the island of Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) about indigenous resistance to Chilean state violence and genocidal land policies, as well as the problems with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP); three Pacific Islander scholars who traveled from Hawai'i address climate change in Oceania as a human rights issue: Tevita O. Ka'ili (from Tonga), Christina Akanoa (from Samoa) and Katoa Sailusi (from Tuvalu); Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio (Kanaka Maoli) who discusses what it means to take a pro-indigenous stand on Hawaiian independence in an attempt to bridge the split between Hawaiians fighting for Kingdom restoration and those who instead would be happy to see a federally recognized Native Hawaiian Governing Entity under US domestic policy. The show also includes an audio recording of a compelling intervention delivered by Tristan Moone (Dine) on behalf of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus followed by an interview with her