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Alaska Native people celebrate their Indigenous culture through fashion, music, and art. During the week-long gathering in Anchorage for the annual First Alaskans Institute’s Elders and Youth conference and the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, there are fashion shows, talent competitions, and art shows at the gatherings. There are also various venues around town featuring fashion, music, and arts. 

Alaska’s Native Voice (ANV), now in its 13th 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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Hunting, fishing and gathering are a central part of Indigenous ways of life across Alaska. Topics of conversations at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention often focuses on protecting subsistence harvests, and having access to enough nutritious foods.  There are concerns about what the lack of access to quality nutrition has on both children and adults.

Alaska’s Native Voice (ANV), now in its 13^th 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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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

“If we lose our sacred places then our belief is pretty much we lose being Winnemem. I mean, we’ll still have blood lines, but blood lines don’t really make tribes.”

— Caleen Sisk, Hereditary and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu people

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.