Session 2 with Suzan Shown Harjo, brings a living voice to the vocabulary used in NAGPRA and Repatriation, but it didn’t come easy. Join THPO Talk Host Sheila Bird as she welcomes Co-Host RaeLynn Butler and brand new respondent, Chase Ward into...

Suzan Shown Harjo has led a lifetime of advocacy for Indigenous Rights. Her contribution would change the face of NAGPRA and other significant movements in Indian Country. Join THPO Talk as we begin this holistic series and take this walk with ...

Join Host Sheila Bird, co-host Deanna Byrd and two former National Park Service (NPS) employees join THPO Talk and talk about their termination as a result of the Trump Workforce Reduction Executive Order and how the absence will impact tribes ...

Join us on this episode as host Sheila Bird (United’ Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians) brings together the three original THPO Talk Women’s Council to talk about their continued work in Preservation and Repatriation efforts. The r...

Join host Sheila Bird and her guest Charles “Chip” Smith, as they start off Season 3 with a discussion about the turn of 2025 and the Presidential Transition before the Transition. How will the content compare to today’s events. 

Join Host of THPO Talk; Sheila Bird, as she gets a first hand accounting from Shawn Patch, who was in attendance at the North Carolina Auction at the attempt to auction the human remains of what we know to be an adolescent from the First Nation...

Join Host Sheila Bird and Deanna Byrd as they interview ACHP Chair Sara Bronin and ONAP Director Ira Matt about the recent Policy Statement made on March 1st, 2023. Where does the ACHP stand on Burial site, Human remains and Sacred...

In this episode of THPO Talk, we are visiting with the three Montana THPO's and we will take  a walk with them through their journey into this ancestral work that we do in Preservation. The Crow Nation, Northern Cheyenne and the Fort Peck,...

Mary Baker is the NAGPRA Representative for the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations.  Hear her story and her experience in Cultural Resources Management. 

Join us, as THPO Talk has a conversation with Bacone President Nicky Michael. As the THPO Talk platform is about education and tribal perspectives, the very basis of our education is at the hub of a new narrative, that tribal commun...

The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) has a unique responsibility to the 574 federally recognized tribes. THPO Talk brought Director Valerie Grussing on the latest episode of THPO Talk, to inform new interes...

On this weeks episode of THPO Talk, the conversation continues with Ira Matt, Director of the Office of Native American Affairs in the ACHP (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation).Listen as we talk about the important of records man...

On this week's episode, the ladies of THPO Talk meet with Director Ira Matt of the ACHP in his new role as the new Director of the Office of Native American Affairs.Listen as we Raelynn Butler (MCN), Deanna Byrd (CNO) and myself (UKB) e...

On this episode of THPO Talk. Listen to THPO Talk Host Sheila Bird as she welcomes back THPO Talk listeners and recaps the current comments that has been posted on the Docket for the Federal Register Notice:Modernization of Army Civil W...

On this episode of THPO Talk in our Stronger Together Series, we host the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, SD and the Florida Seminoles, FL Historic Preservation Officers for a continued discussion on the Federal Register Notice filed by the Army seeki...

The world responded to DAPL, the Dakota Access Pipeline during a time when Energy Transfer Partners were laying a pipeline that threatened the lifeline of the Missouri River that lay across the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Prior to this m...

In this episode of THPO Talk, meet Dr. Brian Burkhart and learn about the OU Native Nations Center and their contribution to Indian Country as a whole. THPO breaks down some fundamentals in conversation in an effort to TEACH new le...

In this episode of THPO Talk, learn of how we ALL got started.  Get to know THPO Talk.There is no such thing as a THPO School, the path that brought us all together so passionately is interesting enough in itself. 

What IS THPO TALK you say ?????? Well start here and listen to this synopsis of this uncharted territory that has been around for a long long time.