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A combination of the World Series and Super Bowl for Indian Horse Relay. As America’s oldest known competition, Indian Relay is exploding onto the scene as the world’s newest and most exciting extreme sport! The Championships are the culmination of over 18 grueling competitions sanctioned by the Horse Nation Indian Relay Council, held this season between Native Americans and First Nations of Canada athletes.
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The Championship of Champions, Indian relay horse races started in Walla Walla, Washington. And enthusiastic crowd enjoyed a 13 race ticket with all the thrills and spills involved. We look forward to doubling our attendance from last year by championship Sunday afternoon. We have results from day one of three of the event sanction by the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council.
Walla Walla, WA. – The 5th Annual Championship of Champions is held in Walla Walla, Washington at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds Sept. 20-22, 2019. At this year’s Championship of Champions, more than 36 elite teams representing 13 Indian Nations will have qualified to compete at the 2019 Finals for Big money on Friday and Saturday leading up to a $50,000 purse on Sunday.
A combination of the World Series and Super Bowl for Indian Horse Relay. As America’s oldest known competition, Indian Relay is exploding onto the scene as the world’s newest and most exciting extreme sport! The Championships are the culmination of over 18 grueling competitions sanctioned by the Horse Nation Indian Relay Council, held this season between Native Americans and First Nations of Canada athletes.
The 2019 Championship of Champions will be the largest gathering to ever witness Indian Horse Relay, with the best inter-tribal competition ever assembled. The Horse Nation Indian Relay Council (HNIRC) was founded to promote Indian Relay, horsemanship and safety. The vision of the teams and the entire membership is for relay to become a viable cultural and economic entity on the reservations. Word with a Champ‘s coverage of this event is supported by Wrangler
Day 1: The Horse Nations Indian Relay Council, Championship of Champions, is hosted this week in Walla Walla, Washington, for the second year in a row. President of the HNIRC, Oglala Lakota Calvin Ghostbear, is our guest this 1st of four, Wrangler Fall Sport Specials September 20-23, 2019.
The excitement is building towards championship Sunday afternoon already. After a season of competition, vying for spots for preliminary heat races the first two days of qualifying races, it all comes down to three laps with dozens of horses and riders on the front straightaway, for the season and title of the sport. This is shaping up to be the largest gathering in the history of America’s first extreme sport. One that is well over two centuries old and part of the traditional American Indian and First Nations way of life, when the great horse nations, once again, come together, a very exciting event.
Day 2: The Championship of Champions, Indian relay horse races started last night in Walla Walla, Washington. And enthusiastic crowd enjoyed a 13 race ticket with all the thrills and spills involved. We look forward to doubling our attendance from last year by championship Sunday afternoon. We have results from day one of three of the event sanction by the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council.
Day 3: The Championships are the culmination of over 18 grueling competitions sanctioned by the Horse Nation Indian Relay Council, held this season between Native Americans and First Nations of Canada athletes. We have results from day two of three of the event sanction by the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council.
Day 4: The Colville Tribe of Washington was in the winner circle at the Championship of Champions Indian relay horse races in Walla Walla,Washington. We appreciate our friends at Wrangler Jeans and Shirts for supporting the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council, season finale. It is our privilege to provide the results from a championship Sunday afternoon and interview with a talented winning jockey Scotty Abrahamsson of Abrahamsson Relay.
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The Horse Nations Indian Relay Council, Championship of Champions, is hosted this week in Walla Walla, Washington, for the second year in a row. President of the HNIRC, Oglala Lakota Calvin Ghostbear, is our guest this 1st of four, Wrangler Fall Sport Specials September 20-23, 2019.
The excitement is building towards championship Sunday afternoon already. After a season of competition, vying for spots for preliminary heat races the first two days of qualifying races, it all comes down to three laps with dozens of horses and riders on the front straightaway, for the season and title of the sport. This is shaping up to be the largest gathering in the history of America’s first extreme sport. One that is well over two centuries old and part of the traditional American Indian and First Nations way of life, when the great horse nations, once again, come together, a very exciting event.
“Teachers” featuring Giizhigookwe and Thomas X
Preserving language, battling stereotypes, and rising up from trauma, we follow Giizhigookwe and Thomas X as they give back to their communities. Taking lessons from elders, these two MCs from Northern Minnesota use their music to empower the next generation.
“Identity” featuring Mic Jordan and Tall Paul
Mic Jordan and Tall Paul share personal stories around identity. We find out how, despite growing up without a parental figure, struggling with alcohol or dealing with anxiety, they became the role models they wanted as kids.
“The People” featuring Quese IMC and Calina Lawrence
Visiting the local hip-hop community in Oklahoma and the Suquamish reservation in Washington, Quese IMC and Calina Lawrence show us what happens when we come together as a People.
“Alaska” featuring AK Rebel and AKU-MATU
Representing Alaska Native culture, AK Rebel and AKU-MATU talk about the effects of colonization. As they share their stories, we hear how they bring healing and a warrior mentality to their music.
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America’s attempt to separate Native children from their families didn’t end with boarding schools. In the decades after World War II, the U.S. government created the Indian Adoption Project, an effort designed to place Native kids with white parents. In this one-hour documentary, producer Melissa Olson explores the personal and historical impact of this policy. Her Ojibwe mother, Judy Olson, was raised by a white family. So were the mothers of several friends. The emotional impact of the Indian Adoption Project — and similar state projects — continues today. Produced by Melissa Olson and Ryan Katz. Edited by Todd Melby.
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Testimonies zeros in on the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. It’s a problem that burst into public awareness across the Upper Midwest in the summer of 2017. That’s when a young indigenous woman who was eight months pregnant was found murdered near Fargo, North Dakota. But the issue isn’t new news within tribal communities. Rather it’s an ongoing problem that has deep roots.
In this episode, you’ll hear a round table discussion with producer and host, Meg Lindholm, and three guests.
Chalsey Snyder is an enrolled member of the MHA Nation on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. She is a mother and an author of “Loren’s Law,” the first anti-human trafficking law in Indian Country. She also serves on the Native American Commission in Fargo, North Dakota.
Dr. Donald Warne is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. He also served as Chair of the Department of Public Health at North Dakota State University which offers the only MPH in Native health in the U.S. Currently he is Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of North Dakota and the Director of Indians into Medicine program at UND’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Whitney Fear is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She is a nurse for Homeless Health Services at Family HealthCare in Fargo and she is a mother of twins. She also serves on the Native American Commission in Fargo, North Dakota.
Produced by Prairie Public Radio.
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Our Voices Will Be Heard is a 59-min radio theater adaptation of a play about a powerful mother- daughter journey that reveals how generations face the choice of continuing to perpetuate—or disrupt—family violence. Through the lens of fiction, and the palette of Alaska Native Storytelling, the playwright tells the true story of her mother’s strength against impossible pressure. Our Voices Will Be Heard weaves together legend and truth in a fierce call for healing and forgiveness.
Our Voices Will Be Heard was written by Vera Starbard who is Tlingit and Dena’ina, originally from Southeast Alaska, and now resides in Anchorage, Alaska. She is the Editor of First Alaskans Magazine, and Playwright-in-Residence at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska.
The play was directed by Larissa FastHorse who is a Lakota playwright, choreographer, and director, based in Santa Monica, California. She has written and produced numerous award-winning plays, and is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
Music composition by Ed Littlefield (Tlingit)
Our Voices Will Be Heard Cast
CAST
Litaa – Erika Stone (Iroquois)
Kutaan – Bella King (Confederated Salish, Kootenai)
Narrator – George Holly (Deg Hit’an)
Shanaa – Jane Lind (Aleut)
Jinihaa – Frank Kaash Katasse (Tlingit)
Ta – Allan Hayton (Gwich’in)
Wanadoo – Leeta Gray (Tlingit)
Sagu – Deandre King (Tlingit)
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Starting February 4th 2019, Native Voice One (NV1), the Native American Radio Network, will begin distribution of Unreserved, produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Through this partnership, Unreserved will heard for the first time on public radio stations throughout the United States.
NV1 looks forward to adding Unreserved to its menu of programs that enlighten and inform the general public about Indigenous news, culture, history, music, events, and modern life. “We are so pleased to have Unreserved added to the catalog of high quality programming by Indigenous producers and hosts. Having Unreserved available to communities will provide an enriched perspective that will benefit stations and listeners,” says NV1 Network Manager Bob Petersen.
Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)
Unreserved is hosted by award winning author and veteran broadcaster, Rosanna Deerchild, Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba. “I am very excited and honoured to be joining the NV1 radio family and look forward to sharing community, culture and conversation with our relations all across Turtle Island,” says Deerchild.
Unreserved is the radio space for Indigenous community, culture, and conversation produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Host Rosanna Deerchild takes you straight into Indigenous communities across North America, from Tuba City to Haida Gwaii, from Fort McMurray to Phoenix, introducing listeners to the storytellers, culture makers and community shakers. The Unreserved team offers real talk from the people behind the headlines, with a soundtrack from the best in Indigenous music. Learn more about Unreserved at cbc.ca/unreserved
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Navajo Aaron Tsinigini and Colorado cowboy Trey Yates win the team roping aggregate for the 60th Annual Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Trevor Brazil wins his 24th gold buckle as all-around champion of the world on his retirement year. We have the results from round 10, the average winners and world champions with interviews from Trevor Brazil and Wade Sundell.
