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Caption: Randy Reinholz, Credit: Maria Ventura
Producing Artistic Director and Founder of Native Voices Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) talks about theater produced by and for Native Americans.

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


  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Dr. Zella Palmer, Credit: Courtesy of Dillard University
“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Educator, Author, and Filmmaker Dr. Zella Palmer discusses her work in preserving the legacy of African-Am...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
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
Caption: Elizabeth James perry
Wampum & Fiber Artist and 2023 National Heritage Fellow Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) discusses her artistic practi...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: TahNibaa Naataanii,
Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver and 2022 National Heritage Fellow TahNibaa Naataanii talks about the way of life that is Navajo/Diné weaving

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
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
Caption: Theresa Secord, Credit: Steve Wewerka
We are celebrating Native American Heritage Month and National Heritage Award by revisiting Penobscot Nation Ash/Sweetgrass Basketmaker and 2016 Na...

Bought by KZYX, KMUN, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Kevin Locke, Credit: Courtesy of Kevin Locke
The late Kevin Locke talks about learning, performing, and teaching Lakota culture and traditions around the world.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and KZUM


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kelly Church  (Ottawa and Pottawatomi), Credit: Richard Church (Ottawa and Pottawatomi)
Revisiting Kelly Church (Ottawa/Pottawatomi) 2018 National Heritage Fellow and Black Ash Basket Maker talks about sustaining and expanding an arti...

Bought by KZUM and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Arlo Iron CLoud, Credit: Greg Latza
Through multi-media, Arlo Iron Cloud seeks an accurate representation of Lakota people, culture, and traditions.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZUM, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 4
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Born in Tul­sa, Okla­homa Joy is a mem­ber of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hick­o­ry Ground). She joined host John Floridis in conv...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Karen Anne Hoffman, Credit: James Kelly
We revisit my conversation with Karen Ann Hoffmann Iroquois raised bead worker and 2020 National Heritage Fellow. She takes traditional art and rei...

Bought by WMPG, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Anita Fields, Credit: Tom Fields
Osage Ribbon worker, multi-media artists and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Anita Fields tells the stories of her nation through her art.

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, Spokane Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Madeline Sayet, Credit:  Bret Hartman
Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet brings communities together through stories.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Wayne Valliere, Credit: Tim Frandy
Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 837 (Air Dates: Jan 11 - 17, 2021) This week on Art of the Song our guest is singer-songwriter Danny O’Keefe. Probably best known for his 1970...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KNBA, WETS, High Plains Public Radio, WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 24
Caption: Karen Anne Hoffman
A conversation with Karen Anne Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) 2020 National Heritage Fellow and Iroquois Raised Beadworker

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Native American writer and critic David Treuer talks about his latest book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present....

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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Snow is such an exciting event for those of us living in southern Arizona and when it does snow the local jabber is always about famous snow falls ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:07
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 04:57
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:02
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Lesquerella is named in honor of Leo Lesquereaux and Wikipedia reminds me that he was a “Swiss bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany.” S...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 10:00
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The scientific name of the black swallowtail is Papilio polyxenes. Papilio is from the Latin for butterfly and the specific epithet polyxenes is fr...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:04
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Well, it was a cold winter, but as I sit and write this blurb it is 75 degrees outside with overnight lows in the low 30s. Now that is classic sout...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
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One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla, also called jumping cholla, was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains. Park L...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:48