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We're Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Month with author Cynthia Leitich Smith
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Cynthia Leitich Smith, Credit: Christopher T Assaf
YA and children’s author and curator Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) discusses the joys and responsibilities of writing and curating authentic Nat...

Bought by WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 6
The Ties That Bind: A Conversation with Novelist Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kelli Jo Ford, Credit: Val Ford Hancock
Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) discusses her novel Crooked Hallelujah which gives us the stories of four generations of Cherokee women and the love, supp...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMPG, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
MN Reads: “The Sky Watched” by Linda LeGarde Grover
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Poet Linda LeGarde Grover talks about the book “The Sky Watched”

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 08:29
National Writers Series: Joy Harjo
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Holly T. Bird talks with U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of the Archeological Dig at the Warren and MacDougall Farmstead in Morrison County
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we travel way back in time to one of the original farmsteads in central Minnesota, the William W. War...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 27:55
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo
From: New Letters on the Air
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U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (2019-2021) talks about her Native American heritage and reads poetry from her multi-award-winning book IN MAD LOVE AN...

Bought by KBIA, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Coast Salish author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe discusses her brand new memoir, "Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk."

Bought by WETS, KNCT FM, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist and Poet Gerald Vizenor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor Native American Heritage Month with U.S. veteran and writer, Gerald Vizenor. Raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, Vizenor a...

Bought by KVNF, WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Michael Punke
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Michael Punke discusses his new novel, "Ridgeline," about the Fetterman Massacre of 1866.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Heather Cahoon
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and scholar Heather Cahoon discusses her poetry collection, Horsefly Dress, and her work as Director of the American Indian Governance and P...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Poet Heid E. Erdrich
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Poet Heid E. Erdrich, whose 2020 book, LITTLE BIG BULLY, is a National Poetry Series Award winner, comes from a talented family that includes oldes...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The World Is One Place
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Diane Glancy
We continue Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee writers, Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez, who discuss co-editing the anthology THE WORLD ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Peter Matthiessen
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Peter Matthiessen talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
Joy Harjo: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate
The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:23
  • Purchases: 2
Waterlily
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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A novel about the Dakota Sioux people and their lifestyle prior to the arrival of the settlers.

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 12:06:02
High Elk's Treasure
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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A fictional novel about a horse that gets lost/stolen and a young boy's journey to recover it. Along the way finding a medicine bundle that was lef...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 02:15:01
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: A conversation with Kent Nerburn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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"....I really came to discover two things. The first one was how incredibly misrepresented the native experience had been in our historical narrat...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 19:38
Evicted!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: A sofa and mattresses on the street in front of an apartment building. "Sofa Free, and throw in 2 box springs", Credit: walknboston is licensed under CC by 2.0.
There’s an eviction crisis in the United States, and it’s disproportionately affecting communities of color.

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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"The truth behind the legend from the voices of the Lakota. The 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's last stand," as it is also known, ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:40:27
Gwen Westerman
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Wordish
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Poet Gwen Westerman shares her poem "Root Words" on this weeks segment of Wordish.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:45
Native author Thomas King on his latest work, "The Inconvenient Indian"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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"The Inconvenient Indian" from the U of MN Press is an unconventional, subversive account of Indian-White relations in North America since initial ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 26:15
  • Purchases: 1
Sean Sherman, author of "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," on The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Sean Sherman is an Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. His new cookbook, "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," shares award-winning ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 17:12
It's Very Indian to Watch AbFab
From: The Organist
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Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 24:54
  • Purchases: 1
Anton Treuer: Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Scott Hall reviews Bemidji Author Anton Treuer's new book Warrior Nation.

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1