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Dillingham, Alaska gathers for town hall to address opioid crisis
From: Jack Darrell
Caption: Dillingham residents gather for a town hall on June 8, 2023, Credit: Corinne Smith/KDLG
Three opioid overdoses – including the death of a local youth – have shaken the Dillingham community. Residents gathered for a town hall, where att...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 04:09
PRESENT meets PAST at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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Most Burners don’t know much about the history of the land or its original inhabitants: the Pyramid Lake Paiute. Reporter Lucy Kang enlightens them.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:09
Live From Cain's Music Special
From: Kelly Burley
Caption: Live From Cain's
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Fullbright is featured in this music-focused special recorded in front of a live audience at the historic C...

Bought by KWGS, KGOU, KOSU, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 58:44
  • Purchases: 4
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
#22-48 Celilo Falls: We Were There
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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World premiere of collaborative project commemorating Native Americans who lost their homes in the 1957 flooding of Celilo Falls

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer, KWAX, WCNY, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Chief Standing Bear Story
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Chief Standing Bear
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 46:34
Meet the 4th Grade Teacher Earning $70,000
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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It’s hard to keep teachers in Utah's Monument Valley. It's beautiful there, sure, but you're hours away from a real grocery store or a movie theate...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Episode 72: Bears, Birds, and Bones
From: Criminal
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As long as 2,500 years ago, Native Americans placed the bones of the dead in giant mounds of earth in the shape of animals. The Effigy Mounds Natio...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Minnesota Native News Special Edition: Native Sovereignty on Franklin Ave.
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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Nearly 8-thousand American Indians from over 40 different sovereign tribes live in Minneapolis. And since the 1960’s, the section of Franklin Avenu...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KVSC, WGZS, WDSE, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 5
Belonging
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week, four stories of people who don’t quite belong in the world where they live, who take matters into their own hands to create belonging.

Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Making The Old New Again
From: Rachel Hazlett
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Paradise of Bachelor's, a record company based in Chapel Hill, NC, re-releases old music that's become unavailable. The company's founder, Brendan ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
The Great Alaska Earthquake: A Survivor's Tale
From: Rebecca Sheir
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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
Rising above Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
From: Scott Burton
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A 15 year-old flutes his way through a life with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 06:31
Saints and Indians
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Winner of the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for best national news documentary, Saints & Indians tells the story of a program that placed thousands o...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2006
  • Length: 15:40
  • Purchases: 20
Story of a Yup'ik Eskimo rapper
From: Ashley Gross
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A sound-rich portrait of a young Yup'ik Eskimo man who uses rap music to work through his suicidal thoughts

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSUT, and KCUR


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 3
Dying for Water: Indians, Politics and Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin
From: Rhoby Cook
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A Native radio documentary on the impact and aftermath of the 2002 Klamath River fish kill.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3