The Nightwolf Story

NAME:  Jay Gola (Winter) Wahya (Wolf) Sunoyi (Night):  Named by his maternal grandmother.

ANCESTRY: Cherokee, Taino and Shoshone

CITIZENSHIP:  Echota Cherokee Nation of Alabama – Buffalo Ridge

QUOTES:

“It’s not about the pigmentation of your skin. It’s not about the color of your eyes or the texture of your hair. It’s not about the clothes you wear or your culture or your traditions. It’s not about where you are from. What it is really about– is how you treat my heart.”

“We are all members of the one Human Family. Let us walk together in respect, harmony and love with one another and with all the life on this our grandmother the earth.” 

“You sit and you stand on land that was stolen from my people. But yet they say you can’t talk but a few minutes. Excuse me, we’ve got a lot to say!”

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

  • “THE AMERICAN INDIAN AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TRUTHS – NIGHTWOLF – THE MOST DANGEROUS SHOW ON RADIO”
    • Originator and host on WPFW 89.3 FM – Pacifica Radio (live since 2000 and reaches more than 2 million listeners in the mid-Atlantic region alone)
    • Mission is to educate and bring awareness of the history and truth of the Native American Indian and our Communities
  • JOURNALIST
    • Published in National Press
    • Member of the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives press gallery
  • “VOICES OF FOUR WINDS”
    • Past host via Montgomery County Maryland’s cable access network
  • “BEING HUMAN PARTY”
    • One of the founding members of an alternative registered political party that focused on getting back to being human and taking on the responsibilities of finding solutions to human survival
    • The first American Indian to serve as a national advisory member of “The Progressive Democrats of America- PDA”
  • NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BLACK AMERICAN INDIANS
    • Founded to help Black people with Indian blood and Native people with Black blood to come together and not feel isolated or excluded.  
  • ACTIVISM
    • 2001 – Initiated, organized, and implemented a nationwide donation project that provided needed supplies via 53’ tractor-trailers to deliver clothes, toys, food, furniture, and medical supplies to reservations west of the Mississippi; including Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, Yankton, Lakota, Three Affiliated Tribes, San Carlos Apache, and Navajo Nations. The Red Cloud High School on Pine Ridge received 20 computers.
    • 2008 – Helped organize “The Longest Walk” from San Francisco to Washington, DC led by the late Dennis James Banks (founder of AIM, The American Indian Movement). The march called for respect for the Earth and to protest 11 anti-Indian bills introduced in Congress that threatened treaty rights and preservation of American Indian sacred sites. Activists present at the end of that first walk in D.C. included Muhammad Ali, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Harold Smith, Stevie Wonder, Marlon Brando, Max Gail, Dick Gregory, Richie Havens, and David Amram. 
    • 2009 – GOVERNOR’S VOLUNTEER AWARD (MARYLAND): Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley for service in reaching out to the neediest of America and raising awareness of America’s oppressed people.
    • 2014 – UNITED NATIONS ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS:  Speaker
    • 2016 – DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: Speaker Philadelphia, Pa