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Soundtracking "The Descendants" With "Real" Hawaiian Music
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Gabby Pahinui (center), playing music in his backyard with Leland “Atta” Isaacs (left), and his sons – Phillip, Cyril and Martin Pahinui (from left to right). , Credit: Photo courtesy of the Pahinui Ohana.
The groundbreaking soundtrack of "The Descendants," marks the first time a Hollywood movie has ever been scored entirely with Hawaiian music. It fe...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:17
Native American Art of the Southwest at the Heard Museum
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with communications manager Debra Krol. The museum is dedicated to the sensitive and acc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Producer Profile: Chris Bashinelli
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Chris Bashinelli
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Chris Bashinelli.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 15:41
Words as the Way to Freedom: Jimmy Santiago Baca
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jimmy Santiago Baca
He went from illiterate street kid, to world renowned poet. But it was in prison that Jimmy Santiago Baca connected with his Native American and C...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Witness to History: Richmond’s boxcar village
From: KALW
Caption: Emily DeCory’s family was one of many Laguna tribe families that moved to Richmond, California, to work on the railroad.
The Bay Area has historically been a population magnet, but few have arrived here to find that their new homes would be train boxcars – still on th...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 07:40
What are you?
From: Paul Flahive
Series: Arctic Entries
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Loren Anderson questions why he didn't know the answer to "What are you?" Trying to understand why his cultural identity wasn't a part of his life.

Bought by KRUA and KUT


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 2
People Without A Nation
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Assistant Chief Gene Adkins
There are eleven tribes of Indians who call Virginia home, among them the Chickahominy. And though they all now enjoy state recognition, the federa...

Bought by KVSC, Prairie Public, XRAY.fm, WRIR, KZYX and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 7
TruthToTell Apr 25: POLYMET MINING CASE-Part 1: Copper-Nickel Mining Will Kill Northern Waters
From: Andy Driscoll
Series: TruthToTell
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What is more important? Jobs? Or the long-term integrity of our air and water? TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI talk with those who are ...

Bought by 'The Sea' and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Wrinkles Episode Five "Your Money, My Money, Our Money" and "Locked Away"
From: Joan Chandler
Series: Mishoo miinwaa Noki ~ You, Me and Wrinkles
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A man steals his elderly alcoholic father's money and bank cards. Another man neglects his mother's spiritual well-being, forcing confinement and ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:16
"Wrinkles" Episode Two "The Golden Roof"
From: Joan Chandler
Series: Mishoo miinwaa Noki ~ You, Me and Wrinkles
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Scams: A widow is cheated through a scam and no one can give her recompense or guidance.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 11:42
Los Preciosos
From: Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland
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A beautiful story of adoption from rural East Cork - two children from Guatemala, an English mother and an Italian father.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 38:39
  • Purchases: 2
Los Mayas Vs. la Marca Comercial "2012"
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
Caption: Zona arqueologica Maya. Palenque, Chiapas - Mexico
La verdad y mitos del 2012. The truth and the myth about 2012.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2010
  • Length: 29:05
Wahwahtay Benais, Hip-Hop Artist from the Leech Lake Rez
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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Wahwahtay Benais: The Thunderbird Within the Northern Lights by Doug MacRostie. The oppression, hardship and discrimination that Native Americans...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 42:17
  • Purchases: 1
Massasoit's Peace Pact with the Pilgrims: Peace Talks Radio [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Massasoit, as depicted in PBS Series WE SHALL REMAIN, Credit: www.pbs.org
Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy who negotiated a truce with British settlers of Plymouth Colony that lasted for 40 years in t...

Bought by KVSC, WNCW, KVMR, WFHB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 26
Massasoit's Peace Pact with the Pilgrims: Peace Talks Radio [59:00/54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Massasoit
Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy who negotiated a truce with British settlers of Plymouth Colony that lasted for 40 years in t...

Bought by KDNK, RadioStPete Florida, WKMS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 82
Iron Tribe
From: steve greenberg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
These are the personal stories of recovery of four people in Portland,OR who are in recovery from addictions to crime and drugs.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2010
  • Length: 20:22
The Mikie Show #23, Ellen
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Join us for a fascinating discussion with anthropologist Dr. Ellen Basso. She has spent many years living with, studying and writing about the Kala...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
Making Peace With Nature After Environmental Disasters [Peace Talks Radio] 29:00
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Reflecting on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, three people, who have placed their relationship with nature at the center of their lives, offer their thoug...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 1
Making Peace With Nature After Environmental Disasters: Peace Talks Radio (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Reflecting on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill, three people, who have placed their relationship with nature at the center of their lives, offer their thoug...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGNU Community Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2010
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 6
Native Voices Online: Onzaam O Onzaam
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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We talked with Onzaam O Onzaam, an online persona in northern MN working as a voice of Native People and building connections for the spread of Nat...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WGDR, and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 4
"We Come From"
From: Littleglobe
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Poem about origins performed by members of Santa Fe Indian School's spoken word team.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
Barry Babcock on the Dakota War of 1862
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Barry Babcock talks about the Dakota war of 1862, a tragic event for all sides.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 15:02
  • Purchases: 2
Native Sounds: Buffy Sainte-Marie
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds
Caption: Buffy Sainte-Marie, Credit: Paquin Entertainment
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with Native media and music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSQM 91.5 FM, and WGDR


  • Added: Jun 17, 2010
  • Length: 17:33
  • Purchases: 4
1st Annual Diversity Traditional Pow Wow
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Christina Bowstring Anderson talks about the pow wow, and what it's been like for her and her children in Grand Rapids.

Bought by KSRQ and WGDR


  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
Native Treaty Rights & Today
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Federal Court rulings in 1988 and 1999 upheld the off-reservation fishing, hunting and gathering rights of many Ojibwe people in Wisconsin and Minn...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1

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