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 1pm EDT, 10am 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
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.