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Caption: Xiao Hui Star and Tchin at their StoryCorps interview in Philadelphia, PA on September 16, 2023, Credit: Kayla Lattimore for StoryCorps
Indigenous artist Tchin sits down with his daughter Xiao Hui Star Chin to look back on how his childhood influenced how he raised his girls and his...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carolyn DeFord poses with the Missing poster for her mother, Leona Kinsey, who went missing October 1999, at her StoryCorps interview on January 24, 2019 in Renton, WA., Credit: By Dupe Oyebolu for StoryCorps.
Carolyn DeFord shares how she carries her mother’s disappearance and the stories that give her comfort and hope in her healing journey.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Ricky Littlewolf, 1971, Credit: Charles Buckanaga
In Minneapolis in the 1970s Native American youth boxing was at its peak. Experienced boxers committed their time and energy to start gyms and coac...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2021
  • Length: 05:20
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One square inch of Chilkat weaving can be up to 3 hours in the making.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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In the Fall, I harvest a Devil's Club stalk from the woods. It serves as a protection, a reminder to be mindful.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Twenty years ago, Leona Kinsey disappeared from her home in La Grande, Oregon and was never seen again. Her daughter, Carolyn DeFord, a Puyallup tr...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:09
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Our house was always getting raided because it was a drop-off point for the supply route that was going into Wounded Knee.

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
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I think hip hop can speak to anybody who listens to it.

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
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"We never had tepees. We had houses, just like everybody else did."

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tracy Howerton raps about both the struggles and joys that he's experienced growing up in Mashpee, Massachusetts., Credit: Brenna Daldorph
Even if you grow up in a hip hop hotspot like New York or LA, it’s not easy to make it as a rapper. It’s even harder if you’re from a small town li...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Ti’at Society member paints a red ocher detail onto Moomat Ahiko’s side., Credit: Stephanie Case
Native Tongvan woman Cindi Alvitre lives on her ancestors' land in the Los Angeles basin, but in a completely different world. So she follows a viv...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:12
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Thompson Williams talks about his father's legacy with his son, Kiamichi-tet Williams.

Bought by KOSU, WMUU-LP, WTJU, WEZU, KMUD and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Ooligan fish
Teresa Goff has been following an ancient network of trails used by the coastal First Nations to trade gleetna, or grease. Gleetna is made from ool...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:21
Caption: Angoulème
Francophone artists from three countries perform in this episode of "Bonjour Chanson": France, Canada and Belgium. This program series was created...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diane Tells His Name (L) and Bonnie Buchanan (R)
Diane Tells His Name talks to her daughter Bonnie Buchanan about discovering she was adopted.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kirby Verret recalls when Dulac had more land and more people., Credit: Barry Yeoman
The Houma Indians and Cajuns who live in in this Terrebonne Parish fishing village have watched its population drop by more than 50 percent since 1...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 1
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On March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever to strike North America sparked tsunamis that destroyed a village. Paul Timothy Selanoff lived to te...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
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This is one snapshot of the New Orleans tradition taken in the summer of 2006

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2006
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Long distance running has long held symbolic meaning for many Native Americans, particularly Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. And as Hal Cannon of ...

Bought by WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRCC-FM, The Nature Podcast, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 28, 2006
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 5