The NV1 web stream has been knocked out by the earthquake that rocked Anchorage on Friday, November 30, 2018. The Anchorage home of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, KNBA, and NV1 on the 4th floor of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council building has suffered significant damage. Our web steam is “off the air,” but we are setting up an alternate site to deliver “regular” programming soon!
Reconnecting with a Healthy Lifestyle
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Reconnecting with a Healthy Lifestyle is a special broadcast from National Native News with a focus on traditional foods to improve the health and wellness of Native people. We hear from tribal leaders, health advocates and grassroots coalition members who are taking on wellness initiatives, promoting food sovereignty programs to increase access to fresh produce, and are seeking new ways to improve the overall health of their communities.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Native Americans and Alaska Natives are more likely to report their health is fair or poor compared to other groups, particularly Caucasians. Rates of diabetes, suicide and chronic illnesses are often higher in Native communities. Indigenous people across the United States are taking control of their mental and physical health using both traditional methods and Western medicine.
From urban gardens and tribal seed banks, to Indigenous smartphone apps to sharing traditional recipes, Native people are reconnecting to their traditions and culture to address disease and encourage others to live a holistic way of life.
Host: Antonia Gonzales, Native American Journalist
Cohost: Brian Yazzie, Native American chef
Guests:
Vox Pops-Bethel, Alaska
Loren Anthony, health advocate/actor
Tennille Marley, researcher
Gailey Morgan, farmer/tribal leader
Mariah Gladstone, Indigikitchen founder
Linda Black Elk, ethnobotanist
Cezin Nottaway, caterer
Inez Cook, business owner
Shilo Maples, health program coordinator
Producers: Sara Gustavus and Antonia Gonzales
sgustavus@gmail.com
agonzales@nativenews.net
Music: Gabriel Ayala Song Title: Sewa Ania ayalaguitarist@yahoo.com
Alaska Water Wars: Stories from Bristol Bay
Alaska’s Water Wars: Stories from Bristol Bay is a timely, five-minute, 5-part series focused on the proposed Pebble Mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay.
Alaska’s Bristol Bay is home to one of the most valuable salmon fisheries in the world. It’s also a place where a company has been wanting to build an open-pit copper and gold mine for years. The Obama administration proposed limits for Pebble Mine to protect water. President Donald Trump’s EPA could roll those back and make the mine a reality. Complicating matters, the Alaska Native people who live there are divided on whether the mine should go ahead.
Alaska Water Wars is a multimedia project that shares the stories of Alaska Native people as they navigate the benefits and risks posed by new natural resource development projects coming to their regions.
This series about the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay comes to us from Independent producer Daysha Eaton in Anchorage, Alaska. Financial support for this reporting was provided by the Alaska Humanities Forum and KNBA public radio.
Part 1: President Donald Trump’s EPA may make it easier for a Canadian mining company to get permits it needs to build a large copper and gold mine on top of wetlands that feed one of the world’s richest salmon fisheries in Southwest Alaska. But some local and indigenous people are resisting the project because of concerns it could ruin their fishing and way of life. At the center of it all is water.
Part 2: The Canadian mining company is looking for new investors and says it plans to apply for permits to build a copper and gold mine in the Bristol Bay region soon. But some local and indigenous people say the EPA was right to put limitations on the mine, under the Obama administration. Tribes connected to commercial fisheries in particular worry that allowing the mine to get a foothold in the area could spell disaster.
Part 3: Thousands of local and indigenous people in the Bristol Bay region are divided on the issue of the proposed Pebble Mine. While commercial fishing towns are united against mining, villages closer to the mine site are interested in the economic development it could bring. However, many also worry that the industry could pollute their pristine rivers as well as change their communities beyond recognition.
Part 4: Despite concerns about possible impacts to water quality, some local and indigenous communities very close to the proposed Pebble Mine say they want the jobs that mining could bring. Those communities don’t benefit as much from the commercial fishing industry and some say they want employment that will allow them to stay in their Native villages with a higher standard of living.
Part 5: The mining company insists that its new plan takes every precaution to protect water, but many local and indigenous people who live in villages midway between the proposed mine and Bristol Bay are skeptical. They rely heavily on subsistence salmon fishing for food and say the water that’s at risk is a cultural resource with which they’re not willing to gamble. They want the EPA to stick with limits it proposed on mining in 2014 and some are vowing to fight the mine no matter what.
Remembering Jim Pepper
Jim Pepper was a Muskogee Creek and Kaw Native who became a world renowned saxophone player and musician, respected by his peers and loved by those who grew to know his songs. Peppers music combined contemporary jazz fused with rock and Native rhythms.
Each fall for the past several years – a Native Arts Festval, is held in Portland Oregon, in Jim Pepper’s old neighborhood. Sean Aaron Cruz organizes the event. Winona LaDuke was a guest at the 2017 festival and paid tribute to his legacy. Avotcja Jiltonilro performed at the 2016 Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival. Kenman Miller plays with the Jim Pepper Tribute Band “The Flying Eagles.” They each share their stories about how their paths intersected with Native Saxaphone great Jim Pepper, interwoven between beloved songs from the artist.
Alaska Federation of Natives Gavel-to-Gavel Coverage Oct. 19-21
Tune in for annual broadcast of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention LIVE from Anchorage, AK.
Thursday, October 19:
2:00 pm – 9:00 pm (EDT)
Friday, October 20:
2:00 pm – 9:00 pm (EDT)
Saturday, October 21:
12:00 pm – 8:00 pm (EDT)
The broadcast covers the convention as it happens from the main podium.
Listeners are able to hear the important speeches by Native leaders, state, and community representatives who are addressing the Native community as a whole.
At 4pm (EDT), hear “Alaska’s Native Voice,” a one hour program providing the voices of AFN attendees, as well as commentary and discussions about AFN presentations and activities, with host Antonia Gonzales.
KNBA 90.3 FM and Koahnic Broadcast Corporation are in the 21st year of providing this unique service that connects Native communities in Alaska through public radio.
Responding to the Opioid Drug Crisis in MN American Indian Communities
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Addiction to opioid pain killers and heroin is a daunting challenge to many Natives. In 2015, Minnesota had more American Indians dying from overdoses than any other state. That same year, nearly 70% of pregnant Native women gave birth to babies with opioids in their systems.
There’s a call for a culturally specific response base on traditional teachings and ceremonies, and a different urgent call for medically assisted treatment. In the end, healing from historical trauma is the path forward. Join us as we explore these issues in Minnesota’s Indian country in this special report from Minnesota Native News brought to you by Native Voice One.
Rocking the Boat: the Story of Changing Race Relations in Bemidji, Minnesota
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Predominantly white towns that border large American Indian reservations can be racially charged places. It is difficult for residents to face the historical atrocities and heal as a community. In a small city in Minnesota’s north woods, Natives and their non-Native allies have been working for 50 years to do just that. Join us as we hear their stories in the documentary Rocking the Boat: the Story of Changing Race Relations in Bemidji, Minnesota. It’s a special report from Minnesota Native News brought to you by Native Voice One.
Word with A Champ – All Nations Indian Relay
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Word with a Champ offers daily coverage of the 4th Annual All Nations Indian Relay Championships, featuring Native Americans and First Nations of Canada. The All Nations Indian Relay Championships was held at the historic MetraPark Grandstands in Billings, Montana on Sept. 22-25, 2016.
America’s oldest known competition, Indian Relay is exploding onto the scene as the world’s newest and most exciting extreme sport! A combination of the World Series and Super Bowl for Indian Horse Relay, the 2016 All Nations Indian Relay Championships is the largest gathering to ever witness Indian Horse Relay, with the best inter-tribal competition ever assembled.
Day 1 – September 22, 2016 – Calvin Ghostbear
Day 2 – September 23, 2016 – Gary Fellers
Day 3 – September 24, 2016 – Kennard Real Bird
Day 4 – September 25, 2016 – Crow Nations, Awasapsii Express winning jockey Chris Carlson
Iñupiaq Drum and Dance
An Earthsongs special documentary with Host/Producer Alexis Sallee.
A one-hour special radio documentary about the resurgence of Iñupiaq drum and dance traditions in Alaska, framed with narration, interviews, and live dance performances.
Indigenous Women Telling a New Story of Energy, featuring Winona LaDuke
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Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future. The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story that protects our land and its people.
If we need a new story for energy, we likely need new storytellers. Energy stories told by Indigenous women seek to carry forth the wisdom from their ancestors and combine it with the intelligence available to us today.
Winona LaDuke – Featured speaker
Winona LaDuke (White Earth Ojibwe) is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two-time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party. As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non-profit organizations in the country.
Winona LaDuke (White Earth Ojibwe) is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two-time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party. As Program Director of Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non-profit organizations in the country.
Beth Osnes – Writer, narrator and co-producer
Beth Osnes is a professor of theatre and environmental studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder where she is co-founder of Inside the Greenhouse, an initiative to inspire creative climate communication (www.insidethegreenhouse.net). With Adrian Manygoats, she helped found the Navajo Women’s Energy Project. For the last fifteen years she has worked in communities around the world using performance as a tool to help women empower their own voices for positive social change.
Adrian Manygoats – Co-producer
Adrian Manygoats (Navajo) was born and raised on the Navajo Nation, in Tuba City, Arizona. She is the Incubator Coordinator for the Native American Business Incubator Network (NABIN) at the Grand Canyon Trust. Prior to working with the Trust, Adrian co-founded the Navajo Women’s Energy Project and helped establish the non-profit organization Elephant Energy on the Navajo Nation. From 2013 to 2015, she operated with a team of organizers and community leaders in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah to make affordable solar technology available to people without grid access.
Tom 
Wasinger – Editor, composer
Tom Wasinger is a self-educated multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, music producer, music arranger, composer, and educator based in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado. He has received three Grammy Awards for his work as a music producer/arranger/composer: The first in 2003 for Beneath the Raven Moon by Mary Youngblood, the second in 2007 for Dance With the Wind by Mary Youngblood, and the third in 2009 as producer/arranger for the compilation Come to Me Great Mystery by various Native American artists. He has also received four A.F.I.M. (American Federation of Independent Music) Indie Awards and six Nammy awards from the Native American Music Association as producer/arranger.
Wasinger – Editor, composerTom Wasinger is a self-educated multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, music producer, music arranger, composer, and educator based in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado. He has received three Grammy Awards for his work as a music producer/arranger/composer: The first in 2003 for Beneath the Raven Moon by Mary Youngblood, the second in 2007 for Dance With the Wind by Mary Youngblood, and the third in 2009 as producer/arranger for the compilation Come to Me Great Mystery by various Native American artists. He has also received four A.F.I.M. (American Federation of Independent Music) Indie Awards and six Nammy awards from the Native American Music Association as producer/arranger.
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