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.
2015 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
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Randy Taylor interviews Derrick Begay, Navajo, the current #2 Header in PRCA Team Roping. (center in picture)
The 57th Annual Wrangler National Finals Rodeo has millions of dollars and the 2015 World Championships up for grabs.
Word With A Champ travels to Las Vegas for daily five-minute reports. We will pay close attention to our Native contestants as they compete in 10 go-rounds in the city of lights.
Day 1
Indian National Finals Rodeo
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Rundown – Thursday, Nov. 4
Rundown – Friday, Nov. 5
November 3 – 7, KHEW and Word with a Champ will cover one of the largest Native events in the country, the Indian National Finals Rodeo, hosted by Cherokee cowboy Randy Taylor.
Indian Rodeo World Championships will be on the line in Las Vegas at the South Point Events Center.
Join us in supporting our premier Native American and First Nations of Canada rodeo athletes by listening to the live webstream, brought to us by KHEW “Rocky Boy Radio” from the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, Montana.
Support for this program is provided by Wrangler Jeans & Shirts and 4 Bears Casino and Lodge.
Cherokee Cowboy Randy Taylor
Tuesday, November 3:
12:30 – 3:45 PM PST
6:30 – 9:45 PM PST
Wednesday, November 4:
12:30 – 3:45 PM PST
6:30 – 9:45 PM PST
Thursday, November 5:
6:30 – 9:45 PM PST
Friday, November 6:
6:30 – 9:45 PM PST
Saturday, November 7:
6:30 – 10:30 PM PST
19th Annual Gavel-to-Gavel Broadcast of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention
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Antonia Gonzales interviews Senator Lisa Murkowski at AFN. (2009)
Thursday, October 15:
2:00 pm – 9:00 pm (EDT)
Friday, October 16:
2:00 pm – 9:00 pm (EDT)
Saturday, October 17:
12:00 pm – 8:00 pm (EDT)
Newscast and Translations – October, 17, 2015
English
Yup’ik
Inupiaq
Athabascan
Tlingit
Newscast and Translations – October, 16, 2015
English
Yup’ik
Inupiaq
Athabascan
Tlingit
Newscast and Translations – October, 15, 201
English
Yup’ik
Inupiaq
Athabascan
Tlingit
Tune in for annual broadcast of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention LIVE from Anchorage, AK.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. ANV airs at 4:30 PM (EDT) on Saturday, October 17, 2015.
Coverage includes a five-minute daily newscast with stories about presentations, news-makers, popular activities such as the arts and crafts fair, and much more, and a translated version in Yup’ik, Inupiaq, Athabascan, and Tlingit.
The Controversial Saint Serra
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Pope Francis speaking in the Congress. Oh his way to the chamber, the pontiff stopped to bless a statue of Junipero Serra, a controversial Spanish missionary. (House of Representatives photo)
Pope Francis spent the week in the United States — and in a solemn ceremony named Father Junipero Serra a saint. A saint? That’s a troubling idea for many in Indian Country.
The pope went on top praise Serra’s treatment of Native people, saying the missionary “sought to defend the dignity of the native community, to protect it from those who had mistreated and abused it. Mistreatment and wrongs which today still trouble us, especially because of the hurt which they cause in the lives of many people.”
But that’s where the historical record is hard to reconcile with the story of Serra as a saint.
Many American Indians — especially those from California — say how can any “saint” be a part of such a brutal regime. Indeed, the numbers of dead California Natives are staggering. During those years of the missions, more than two-thirds of the Native people died. Historian and author Elias Castillo once called the missions “death camps run by friars where thousands of California’s Indians perished.” And in his own letters, Serra described indigenous people as “barbarous pagans.”
#DoYouPowwow
In the spirit of the sacred site, the Manito Ahbee Festival is a gathering that celebrates Indigenous culture and heritage to unify, educate and inspire. Photo by
Travel Manitoba.
Native America Calling live radio program wants to hear why you step into the powwow arena. Join us for this discussion and our live broadcast April 29th 1PM Eastern Time.
Stream online at https://www.nv1.org/
Tweet your thought to us @180099Native with the hashtag #DoYouPowow
Trahant Reports – Oil is Cheap … so leave it in the ground and address climate change
Could we be near the moment to really address climate change?
A quick answer is “no.” Of course not.
But the idea of cheap gas could help sell climate action. If it’s not profitable to pump oil right now, perhaps, oil companies will find a reason to delay investments in new projects. That means leaving carbon products in the ground for a better return on investment.
The reason for the sharp decline in the price of oil is both demographic and structural. And it’s not likely to change soon.
Voices from the Circle – Week of January 12, 2015
This week,
VOICES FROM THE CIRCLE
continues to explore the importance of Native relationships as well as those of our elements with the help of …
R. CARLOS NAKAI
– “Covenants shared”
QUATISI
– “Seminole Wind”
ANCIENT ONES
– “Grand Mothers”
LEGENDS OF TIME
– “Air, Fire & Water”
JOANNE SHENANDOAH
– “Great Law Of Peace”
J. HUBERT FRANCIS
– “Grandfather”
EDWARD GAMBLIN
– “Soldier Blue”
LIZ JAAKOLA
– “Still Here”
GARY STROUTSOS
– “Night Of The Sun”
THON GYA
– “NDN Stomp”
ANCIENT ONES
– “Grandfathers”
ANDREW BASQUEZ
– “Memory of Mother Earth”
T.M. MICHIF’
– “Chippewa Cajun”
LOUIE GONNIE
– “Hogan”
LIZ JAALOLA
– “Rez Car”
Later!
Word with a Champ’s 2014 National Finals Rodeo Coverage
Ten 5-min Podcasts
The 56th Annual Wrangler National Finals Rodeo had millions of dollars and the 2014 World Championships up for grabs. Word With a Champ traveled to Las Vegas for daily coverage for the ten day event held December 4th – 13th. This year, Native Americans and Canadian First Nations were well-represented in one of this sport’s greatest events.
NV1 now offers a podcast of the daily 5-min report. Bring your audience our coverage of the sold out the events. We pay close attention to our Native contestants as they compete in 10 go-rounds in the city of lights.