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5 Plain Questions

5 Plain Questions is a podcast that proposes 5 general questions to Native American and Indigenous artists, creators, musicians, writers, movers and shakers, and culture bearers.

Performing Arts Arts Visual Arts
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
41 minutes
Episodes
177
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson

(From the Stephen Friedman Gallery)

Jeffrey Gibson’s work fuses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and experience of living in Europe, Asia and the US with references that span club culture, queer theory, …

00:30:28  |   Wed 22 Feb 2023
Maria Cristina Tavera

Maria Cristina Tavera

Minneapolis-based artist, Maria Cristina (Tina) Tavera investigates the constructions of racial, ethnic, gender, national and cultural identity via numerous mediums including printmaking, installatio…

00:30:50  |   Wed 15 Feb 2023
Kevin Pourier

Kevin Pourier

Kevin Pourier is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, has been carving Buffalo horn on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota for about 20 years. Pourier is one of the only artists in the c…

00:36:20  |   Wed 08 Feb 2023
Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is a Cherokee/Anglo landscape painter has had over 30 solo shows in the US and Europe.  Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metro…

01:26:53  |   Wed 01 Feb 2023
Season 4 returns February 2023

Season 4 returns February 2023

Thank you for an incredible season.

Be sure to check out elevenwarriorarts.com for more details.

00:03:38  |   Wed 23 Nov 2022
Goota Ashoona

Goota Ashoona

Goota Ashoona is is a third generation Inuit artist. She is a multimedia artist, and a part of Canada’s premiere Inuit art family, the Ashoona’s of Cape Dorset. She was born in Cape Dorset and rai…

00:32:23  |   Thu 17 Nov 2022
Indigenous Art Fair Saturday November 19th 2022

Indigenous Art Fair Saturday November 19th 2022

Indigenous Art Fair on Saturday November 19th, 2022.

Over 30 artists selling their work and crafts.

Food for sale.

Free screenprinted shirts designed by John Hitchcock

Dance group demonstrating Northern …

00:03:38  |   Thu 10 Nov 2022
Liza Black

Liza Black

Liza Black is a citizen of Cherokee Nation. Cherokees have three federally recognized tribes: Eastern Cherokee Band of Indians, United Keetoowah Band, and Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation claims Blac…

00:34:08  |   Thu 03 Nov 2022
5 Scary Questions 2022 Part 3

5 Scary Questions 2022 Part 3

In the final installation of 5 Scary Questions host Joe Williams speaks with friends and family as they share stories from their experiences.

01:10:09  |   Thu 27 Oct 2022
5 Scary Questions 2022 Part 2

5 Scary Questions 2022 Part 2

Join us for part two of this star-studded event.

Dallas Goldtooth, Raven Chacon, Loren Waters, Jana Schmieding, Chad Charlie, Dakota Mace, America Merideth, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Savannah Tallbear, Tan…

00:42:34  |   Thu 20 Oct 2022
5 Scary Questions 2022 Part 1

5 Scary Questions 2022 Part 1

Part 1 of our annual Halloween series. Our past guests have shared strange and scary stories.

00:34:48  |   Thu 13 Oct 2022
Tanya RedRoad

Tanya RedRoad

Tanya RedRoad (Little Shell Band of Chippewa Decedent of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)owns a small catering business Tee's Taco's. She also currently works as the director of Toxic Taters Coaliti…

00:38:07  |   Wed 05 Oct 2022
Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan

Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan

Peggy Flanagan is a mom, an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, and Wolf Clan. She is the 50th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, the first Native American ever elected to serve in this…

00:38:05  |   Wed 28 Sep 2022
North Dakota State House Representative Ruth Buffalo

North Dakota State House Representative Ruth Buffalo

Ruth Buffalo is an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. She is originally from Mandaree. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Si Tanka University a…

00:35:55  |   Wed 21 Sep 2022
South Dakota State House Representative Tamara St. John

South Dakota State House Representative Tamara St. John

Tamara St. John is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation of South Dakota.  She is the Tribal Archivist/Curator of Collections and works with the Tri…

00:50:53  |   Wed 14 Sep 2022
Minnesota State House Representative Heather Keeler

Minnesota State House Representative Heather Keeler

Heather is an enrolled member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe with Lineage to Eastern Shoshone, a mom of two amazing boys, queer and bold in her passion to make a positive impact on the next generations.



00:33:19  |   Thu 08 Sep 2022
Kathleen Ash-Milby

Kathleen Ash-Milby

Kathleen Ash-Milby is Curator of Native American Art at the Portland Art Museum. She has organized numerous exhibitions of Native American art, including Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe). She wa…

00:37:49  |   Wed 31 Aug 2022
Savannah Tallbear

Savannah Tallbear

Savannah Tallbear is from the Kaw Nation, Southern Cheyenne and is

Oglala Lakota, Savannah primarily works with acrylic and permanent inks. She is inspired by her childhood, heritage and daily life.

S…

00:39:20  |   Thu 25 Aug 2022
Black Owl Society

Black Owl Society

Buffalo Man is a South Dakota Hall of Fame artist with music featured in the motion picture ‘Doe Boy’ by Chris Eyres and the Emmy nominee Amazon Prime series ‘Bosch’. He continues to grow his musical…

01:41:42  |   Wed 27 Jul 2022
5PQ BONUS: Isanti Home Sessions

5PQ BONUS: Isanti Home Sessions

Recorded live on May 14th 2022, Isanti played a live session for listeners of 5 Plain Questions.

Set List:

Now Or Never 2:18

On The Brink 5:14

Leaves Me Down 7:49

Lakota Woman Blues 11:32

Bittersweet Sere…

00:25:26  |   Fri 22 Jul 2022
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