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Word With a Champ coverage of the 2023 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo

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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.

2023 Alaska Federation Of Native Convention Live Broadcast

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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.

 

October 19, 2023

October 20, 2023

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

 

October 23, 2023

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

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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

“Championship of Champions”2023 Indian Relay Horse Racing, Day 3

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Blackfeet Indian relay horse racing team Carlson Relay won the Championship of Champions September 24, 2023 in Casper, Wyoming. The jockey, 35 year old Chaz Racine, lead the team to victory in the $100,000.00 event hosted by the Northern Arapaho’s Wind River Casino and Hotel. We have results of Championship Sunday and a word with the champ.

Fort Pierre, SD – The 10th Annual HNIRC Championship of Champions was held at the Stanley County Fairgrounds Sept. 22-24, 2023.

America’s oldest known competition, Indian Relay is exploding onto the western sporting scene as the most exciting extreme sport! The Championships are the culmination grueling competitions between Native Americans and First Nations of Canada athletes.

The 2023 Championship of Champions may be the largest gathering to ever witness Indian Horse Relay, with the best inter-tribal competition ever assembled.

“Championship of Champions” 2023 Indian Relay Horse Racing, Day 2

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The Championship of Champions Saturday September, 23, 2023 enjoyed Indian relay horse racing at its finest in Casper, Wyoming. We have results with the winner of each heat race of 67 teams competing for over $100,000.00 presented by the Northern Arapaho’s Wind River Casino and Hotel. Also a comment from legendary track announcer Kennard Real Bird of the Crow Nation.

Fort Pierre, SD – The 10th Annual HNIRC Championship of Champions was held at the Stanley County Fairgrounds Sept. 22-24, 2023.

America’s oldest known competition, Indian Relay is exploding onto the western sporting scene as the most exciting extreme sport! The Championships are the culmination grueling competitions between Native Americans and First Nations of Canada athletes.

The 2023 Championship of Champions may be the largest gathering to ever witness Indian Horse Relay, with the best inter-tribal competition ever assembled.

“Championship of Champions” 2023 Indian Relay Horse Racing, Day 1

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Fort Pierre, SD – The 10th Annual HNIRC Championship of Champions was held at the Stanley County Fairgrounds Sept. 22-24, 2023.

Day one of three of the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council had a good day September 22. Sixty seven teams competing for over $100,000.00 and the 2023 world championships in the year end finals of Indian relay horse racing. We have results and a word with Charlie Bendele of the White Mountain Apache, production manager of the Championship of Champions in Casper, Wyoming.

As America’s first extreme sport, Indian Relay is exploding onto the western sporting scene! The Championships are the culmination grueling competitions between Native Americans and First Nations of Canada athletes.

The 2023 Championship of Champions may be the largest gathering to ever witness Indian Horse Relay, with the best inter-tribal competition ever assembled.

RIP Frank Blythe

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Frank Blythe’s many notable achievements include co-founding Native America Calling and American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS), the distribution system that eventually became Native Voice One. These two keystones of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation’s mission carry on Blythe’s determined vision for accurate and authentic representation of Native American voices to the public.

“Native media would not be nearly as far along if it weren’t for Frank’s far-sightedness and his ability to inspire so many others,” said Koahnic President and CEO Jaclyn Sallee.

Our thoughts go out to his family and the many people whose lives he touched throughout his rich life.

Native Artist Series: Leon Misak Kinneeveauk

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Episode 11: Leon Misak Kinneeveauk

Hosted by Chandre Szafran

Leon Misak Kinneeveauk (Inupiaq) from Pt. Hope in Arctic Alaska is an artist operating the largest ivory carving studio in Deghay’kaq, known today as Anchorage, at the Alaska Art Alliance. Carving walrus ivory is an original artform of Indigenous communities in the Arctic, stretching across Inuit lands in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.

In this episode, Leon shares the journey of discovering his role in community leadership after being incarcerated for a crime involving a death. Under Leon’s leadership, the studio offers a much-needed place of cultural belonging and camaraderie, that meets the specific needs of the art of ivory carving.

Jerome Saclamana (King Island Inupiaq) joins to share his years of experience in ivory studios, and what makes Leon’s studio a rare gem in the urban center of Anchorage.

Native Artist Series

The Native Artist Series takes a deep dive into the stories of Indigenous artists, spanning a wide range of artistic disciplines. From performance artists and writers, to carvers and weavers, artists share their unique stories and perspectives on navigating these fields while reclaiming native identity.

Native Artist Series: Laine Neech.yanagút Yéil Rinehart

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Episode 10: Laine Neech.yanagút Yéil Rinehart

Hosted by Chandre Szafran

Laine Neech.yanagút Yéil Rinehart (Lingít/Taos Pueblo) is based in Lingít lands in what’s today known as Juneau, AK.

Laine practices the traditional Lingít artform of Chilkat weaving, an intricate craft that retains its traditional designs, meanings, and uses.

In this episode, Laine shares how their art practice is a natural way to express personal and cultural identity, and makes space to acknowledge the harms of colonization. Also, a peek at their ambition to increase access to the mountain goat wool used in original weaving practices. Their stories are imbued with gratitude for the communities of teachers from whom they’ve learned.

Native Artist Series

The Native Artist Series takes a deep dive into the stories of Indigenous artists, spanning a wide range of artistic disciplines. From performance artists and writers, to carvers and weavers, artists share their unique stories and perspectives on navigating these fields while reclaiming native identity.

Native Artist Series: Dorthy Wychesit Fredenberg

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Episode 9: Dorthy Wychesit Fredenberg

Hosted by Chandre Szafran

Dorthy is a professional performer and business owner of a dance company based on Dena’ina lands in Deghay’kaq, known today as Anchorage, Alaska. Dorthy’s talent reflects a lifetime of discipline and love for dance. She performs as Violet Lee Vamp. Along with her business partner, performer Lady Duchess, the two co-founded the Sweet Cheeks Cabaret dance company in 2013. Their work straddles the discipline of live performance, the closeknit community of small businesses, and the energy that comes with cabaret—a niche in live theater that combines entertainment with an artform that is gender-body-and-sex-positive, and where safety-and-consent come first.

Violet Lee Vamp and Lady Duchess have helped make Sweet Cheeks a fan-favorite in the Anchorage nightlife scene, frequently earning the company, and its cast of dedicated performers, awards in audience-voted theater and burlesque.

At the core of it all, as an Indigenous performer and entrepreneur in the small business community, Dorthy’s work marks a steady, subtle sense of ownership for Indigenous women in entertainment.

 

Native Artist Series

The Native Artist Series takes a deep dive into the stories of Indigenous artists, spanning a wide range of artistic disciplines. From performance artists and writers, to carvers and weavers, artists share their unique stories and perspectives on navigating these fields while reclaiming native identity.

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