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A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.
2024 Alaska Federation Of Natives Convention Live Broadcast
KNBA’s 2024 Broadcast of the annual AFN convention brings information, issues, and voices to radio and streaming audiences Thursday, October 17 – Saturday October 19. The daily gavel-to-gavel live coverage of presentations from the main podium is hosted by Rhonda McBride, streaming on nv1.org at 1 p.m. EDT/10 a.m. AKDT.
Listeners hear the important speeches by Native leaders, state, and community representatives who are addressing the Native community as a whole.
Each day begins with the hour long news program Alaska’s Native Voice anchored by Antonia Gonzales from National Native News and produced by Emily Schwing. You’ll hear interviews and discussions with Alaska Native people from across the state, who gather in Anchorage each fall to discuss top priorities, meet with government officials, and celebrate their cultural ways of life.
AFN Newscast
A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.
October 17, 2024
October 18, 2024
October 19, 2024
October 21, 2024
Alaska’s Native Voice
Day 1: Living Indigenous Ways of Life
Elders and young people from across Alaska gather together each fall for the First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth Conference. The event offers space for community members to come together and learn about a number of topics from subsistence practices to language revitalization to the arts. The focus of the 2024 conference is on land and food – living Indigenous ways of life.
Hunting, fishing, and gathering are a central part of Indigenous ways of life across Alaska. Topics of conversations at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention often focuses on protecting subsistence harvests, and having access to enough nutritious foods. There are concerns about what the lack of access to quality nutrition has on both children and adults.
Alaska Native people celebrate their Indigenous culture through fashion, music, and art. During the week-long gathering in Anchorage for the annual First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth conference and the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, there are fashion shows, talent competitions, and art shows at the gatherings. There are also various venues around town featuring fashion, music, and arts.
Word With a Champ coverage of the 2023 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
Ten 5-minute Daily Reports December 8-17, 2023
Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (WNFR), the sport’s richest and most prestigious rodeo, showcases the world’s best contestants and stock. The 10-day championship event is held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Native cowboys and cowgirls are in contingency for the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association 2023 World Titles.
Word with A Champ is providing a series of 10 five-minute daily reports featuring Native American and First Nation Canadian contestants win, lose or draw, including interviews with ProRodeos favorite stars. It is an exciting time for our Native American contestants. Each of the 10 rounds pays big bucks to win and the best of 10 will earn a huge amount of money.
Alaska’s Native Voice – The Intersection between MMIP, Justice, Historical Trauma and Healing
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Today, we’re talking about justice and healing – in its many different forms. Alaska Natives and American Indians have been disproportionately affected by the legacy of boarding schools, and continue to struggle with high numbers of murdered and missing people. What do efforts to address some of these issues look like? From the US Justice Department, to local ceremonies that garner national attention -join us for a discussion on healing from all angles.
Alaska’s Native Voice (ANV), now in its 12th year, is hosted by National Native News anchor Antonia Gonzales with freelance producer Emily Schwing. The program highlights guests and recorded voices from AFN attendees, and engages in conversation about top issues facing Alaska Native communities across the state including climate issues, education, and language and culture.
Alaska’s Native Voice – What is the Future of AFN & And how is tribal leadership changing in Alaska ?
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The Alaska Federation of Natives is the largest representative organization of Alaska Natives in the world. But over the past few years, it’s been changing in structure and in leadership. Today we are discussing AFN’s future as the organization goes through a strategic planning process and as tensions around climate change, subsistence fishing and representation simmer among Alaska’s Indigenous organizations.
Alaska’s Native Voice (ANV), now in its 12th year, is hosted by National Native News anchor Antonia Gonzales with freelance producer Emily Schwing. The program highlights guests and recorded voices from AFN attendees, and engages in conversation about top issues facing Alaska Native communities across the state including climate issues, education, and language and culture.
2023 AFN Newscast – October 20, 2023
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A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.
2023 AFN Newscast – October 19, 2023
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A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.
2023 Alaska Federation Of Native Convention Live Broadcast
Audio available by 12pm ET
Alaska’s Native Voice
Alaska’s Native Voice (ANV), now in its 12th year, is hosted by National Native News anchor Antonia Gonzales with freelance producer Emily Schwing. The program highlights guests and recorded voices from AFN attendees, and engages in conversation about top issues facing Alaska Native communities across the state including climate issues, education, and language and culture.
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Related Coverage
Listen to the Friday evening newscast from our partner Alaska Public Media featuring a report from Rhonda McBride and interviews with U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (Yup’ik/D-AK) and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)
Anchorage Daily News: After husband’s death, Alaska Federation of Natives honors Rep. Peltola with outpouring of support
Courtesy AFN
We had another great year at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Anchorage, Alaska, October 19, 20, & 21, 2023
KNBA’s 2023 Broadcast of the annual AFN convention brought information, issues, and voices to radio and streaming audiences. The daily gavel-to-gavel live coverage of presentations from the main podium hosted by Rhonda McBride started at 9:00 a.m. Listeners heard the important speeches by Native leaders, state, and community representatives who are addressing the Native community as a whole.
Each day began with the hour long news program Alaska’s Native Voice anchored by Antonia Gonzales from National Native News. This program provided the up-close interviews and discussions with AFN stakeholders, leaders, and culture bearers as the day began, before speakers took the main podium.
AFN Newscast
A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.
Audio available by 12pm ET
Alaska’s Native Voice
Alaska’s Native Voice (ANV), now in its 12th year, is hosted by National Native News anchor Antonia Gonzales with freelance producer Emily Schwing. The program highlights guests and recorded voices from AFN attendees, and engages in conversation about top issues facing Alaska Native communities across the state including climate issues, education, and language and culture.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Related Coverage
Listen to the Friday evening newscast from our partner Alaska Public Media featuring a report from Rhonda McBride and interviews with U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (Yup’ik/D-AK) and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)
Anchorage Daily News: After husband’s death, Alaska Federation of Natives honors Rep. Peltola with outpouring of support
Courtesy AFN
A Prayer for Salmon – Five-Part Hour Long Specials
KALW’s Spriritual Edge presents A Prayer for Salmon, the story of the Winnemem Wintu people and their clash with Northern California’s Shasta Dam. A Prayer for Salmon is a limited series of five one-hour episodes.
A Prayer for Salmon winds its way through spirituality, environmentalism, politics, and California’s violent history of colonization to tell the powerful story of the Winnemem Wintu people through exceptional research and intimate conversations with voices rarely heard on air.
Episode 1: A Protest at Shasta Dam
In a peaceful protest, the Winnemem Wintu call out the U.S. government for its refusal to acknowledge the destruction caused by Shasta Dam. The protest at the Shasta Dam Visitor Center reveals an ongoing reality. They are ignored and a security guard threatens to forcibly remove them.
Episode 2: It’s Illegal
We go to Shasta Dam and learn about the history behind its construction in the late 1930s and early 1940s. We hear from Chief Caleen Sisk about how a federal proposal to raise the dam another 18 1/2 feet opens old wounds for the Winnemem Wintu, further threatening their tenuous survival.
Episode 3: A Habitat Destroyed
The Winnemem Wintu and supporters start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters above Shasta Dam. The Run follows the salmon’s migration path from the ocean to the mountains. It starts in the Bay Area where the Winnemem Wintu and supporters encounter environmental devastation first set in motion 200 years ago.
Episode 4: Speaking for Salmon
At a sacred spring high up on Mt. Shasta, the Winnemem Wintu recount the beginnings of the world when salmon gave up their voices so that humans could speak. They now feel a special obligation to defend salmon in return for this gift. A biologist details Chinook salmon’s catastrophic decline since the arrival of Euro-American settlers to California and the Northwest.
Episode 5: The Return of Salmon
A War Dance held on top of Shasta Dam in 2004 brought about a surprising discovery: the Winnemem Wintu’s fish swam in rivers on the other side of the world. Determined to bring them home, they board a plane bound for Christchurch, New Zealand. With the help of the Maori people, they hold a ceremony on the Rikkaia River and sing to the salmon there. Once back in the US, Chief Caleen Sisk meets with every government agency she can to push the idea of bringing the New Zealand back to Winnemem Wintu homelands on the McCloud River.
A Prayer for Salmon
A Prayer for Salmon is an 11 part audio documentary series from KALW’s The Spiritual Edge that tells the story of the Winnemem Wintu people and their clash with Northern California’s Shasta Dam. The dam’s construction turned California into an agricultural powerhouse. It also left the Winnemem Wintu displaced and without say over their land. The series details their fight to resist a proposed Shasta Dam Enlargement Project. It also highlights the Winnemem Wintu’s aspirations to return Chinook salmon to their homeland on the McCloud River, a major tributary of the dam.
Chapter 1. A Protest at Shasta Dam
In a peaceful protest, the Winnemem Wintu call out the U.S. government for its refusal to acknowledge the destruction caused by Shasta Dam. The protest at the Shasta Dam Visitor Center reveals the Winnemem Wintu’s ongoing reality. They are ignored and later a security guard threatens to forcibly remove them. Read More
Chapter 2. A Visit to Sacred Sites
We accompany the Winnemem Wintu to sacred sites near the McCloud River. The federal government’s Shasta Dam and Reservoir Expansion Proposal threatens these sites and the Winnemem Wintu way of life. Read More
Chapter 3. A Visit to Sacred Sites
We go to Shasta Dam and learn about the history behind its construction in the 1930s and 1940s. We hear from Chief Caleen Sisk about how the federal proposal to raise the dam another 18 and a half feet opens old wounds for the Winnemem Wintu and further threatens their tenuous survival. Read More
Chapter 4. It’s Illegal
An elder remembers indigenous life back before Shasta Dam was built. The legality of the proposal to raise Shasta Dam is considered. Meanwhile, Chief Caleen Sisk considers a new strategy to fight back: turning an adversary — the Westlands Water District — into an ally. Read More
Chapter 5. A Prayer For Salmon
The Winnemem Wintu and supporters start a two-week Run4Salmon prayer to call salmon back to the waters above Shasta Dam. The Run follows the salmon’s migration path from the ocean to the mountains. It starts in the Bay Area where the Winnemem Wintu and supporters encounter environmental devastation first set in motion 200 years ago. Read More
Chapter 6. The Delta, A Habitat Destroyed
As the Run4Salmon continues to travel upstream, the Winnemem Wintu and supporters witness more obstacles faced by migrating salmon. Once a vast marshland, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta was an important haven for juvenile salmon, but now is a gauntlet of human engineering. Chief Caleen Sisk stands up for salmon and water health at a bureaucratic meeting of Sacramento Valley water districts. Read More
Chapter 7. Agriculture and Genocide
The Run4Salmon bikes through rural areas in the upper Sacramento Valley where Euro American settlers changed the land to better suit an agrarian economy. The Winnemem Wintu and supporters remember the indigenous people who were forcibly removed and killed. An apology in Redding for the genocide may be well intentioned, but Chief Caleen Sisk insists action must accompany words. Read More
Chapter 8. Speaking For Salmon
At a sacred spring high up on Mt. Shasta, the Winnemem Wintu recount the beginnings of the world when salmon gave up their voices so that humans could speak. They now feel a special obligation to defend salmon in return for this gift. A biologist details Chinook salmon’s catastrophic decline since the arrival of Euro-American settlers to California and the Northwest. Read More
Chapter 9. A War Dance and a Prophecy
When plans for the Shasta Dam Enlargement Project accelerate, the Winnemem Wintu decide to hold a war dance, their first in more than 100 years. Members of the community dream into existence songs, dances and regalia. News of the ceremony, and the tribe that declared war against the U.S. government on top of Shasta Dam, goes around the world. That leads to an unexpected message from Down Under. Read More
Chapter 10. Bringing Salmon Home
The Winnemem Wintu board a plane bound for Christchurch, New Zealand. With the help of the Maori people, they hold a ceremony on the Rikkaia River and sing to the salmon there. Once back in the United States, Chief Caleen Sisk meets with every government agency she can to push the idea of bringing the New Zealand salmon back home. Read More
Chapter 11. The Return of Salmon
Spurred by drought, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service accelerates a plan to restore winter-run Chinook salmon to the McCloud River. Chief Caleen Sisk weighs whether to collaborate with federal officials. Salmon spotted on Dry Creek for the first time in 30 years are celebrated as an answer to the Winnemem Wintu’s Run4Salmon prayer. Read More
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