Cloud9: How an Indigenous Artist Views the Baha’i Teachings

Cloud9 is a podcast produced by Baha’i Teachings. Its aim is to feature interviews with artists and discuss what inspires them to make a positive contribution to the world.

In this episode, Baha’i Teachings’ arts editor Shadi Toloui-Wallace interviews Roman Orona. Roman is a member of the Apache, Pueblo, and Yaqui tribes located in the Southwestern United States. He is an educator, environmentalist, producer, actor, musician, and filmmaker whose mission is to teach world peace, gender equality, environmental, and cultural preservation, racial equality, and the abandonment of all forms of prejudice through his art. 

You may also be interested in this article Roman wrote for Baha’i Blog: Some Native American Prophecies and the Baha’i Faith

You can read an interview with him here: Circling Spirits: A New Album by Roman Orona

Roman also participated in Baha’i Blog’s Studio Sessions and sang “Human Tests” and “Blessings”.

If you enjoy this podcast, you might also like the Baha’i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson. You can listen to them here on Baha’i Blog.

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Sonjel Vreeland

In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.