Note To Self is a program where we explore identity and its connection to the ideas of utopia and dystopia. Part of our Social Alchemy project, this program on 99.1 WQRT-LP Indianapolis — is made possible with the support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family Fund.

Shauta Marsh, co-founder and director of programming at Big Car, explores the balance of preservation of culture vs. forced assimilation from the lens of her own experience being mixed race and through the work of contemporary Native American artists.

This episode feature the work of one of the first Native American bands to go mainstream, Redbone; Lakota activist and Hip Hop artist Frank Waln with Susan Shown Harjo and Faith Spotted Eagle, Cherokee/Mvskoke artist and composer Elisa Harkins. The radio version includes poet Ofelia Zepeda whose work is available through Kore Press.