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“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Zella Palmer talks about food in New Orleans

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...

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

Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag- Aquinnah)--Making Art Through Native Lifeways

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Wampum & Fiber Artist and 2023 National Heritage Fellow Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah) discusses her artistic practi...

Navajo/ Diné Weaving: Art that is a Way of Life

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany

Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver and 2022 National Heritage Fellow TahNibaa Naataanii talks about the way of life that is Navajo/Diné weaving

Water is rising all around us. What should we do?

From: Possibly

Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...

Bought by KMXT and WRFA-LP

Meet multi-media artist Arlo Iron Cloud

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

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

Meet 2021 National Heritage Fellow Osage Ribbon Worker Anita Fields

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

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

Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet talks about the power of story

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

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

Eponymous (episode 1)

From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy

Explore what the Northwest looked like pre-contact, with Native nutritionist and food sovereignty expert Valerie Segrest of the Muckleshoot Tribe. ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC

Hundred in the Hand

From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka

First in Joseph Marshall's groundbreaking Lakota Westerns series, this riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, oth...

Voices of Native American Theater

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: They Don’t Talk Back by Frank Henry Kaash , Credit: Photo by Craig Schwartz Photography © 2016

Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) founder and artistic director of Native Voices gives Native playwrights support and a platform.

Bought by KZUM, New England Public Media, Harford Community Radio, and KBBI Alaska

Native-American Basketmaker Kelly Church--keeps tradition alive and vibrant

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Kelly Church, Credit: Richard Church, Pottawatomi and Ottawa

2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is an Anishanabe basketmaker who combines a traditional craft with a contemporary eye.

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Sometimes they are known as the invisible Indian tribe. Most American’s don’t even know they exist; yet, they’re deeply wrapped in our folklore.

Bought by KCBX

The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates Native American music.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

2016 National Heritage Fellow and Dakota flute player and maker Bryan Akipa is reinvigorating a First Nation musical tradition.

Bought by KZUM

The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates Spiderwoman Theater and Muriel Miguel

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Forty years ago, Muriel Miguel co-founded Spiderwoman Theater the first Native-American women’s theater. It's still going strong!

Author Brando Skyhorse on the uses of memoir and of poetry.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Brando Skyhorse, Credit: Courtesy of the author

Brando Skyhorse had a childhood no one could make up. His memoir allowed him to create order from the chaos.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Shirley Sneve on getting the voices of Native-Americans on the airwaves.

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Shirley Sneve talks about Native American Public Telecommunications which shares stories of Native American people on television and radio.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR

The Art of the Porcupine

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Yvonne Walker Keshick, Credit: Michael G. Stewart

2014 National Heritage Fellow and member of the Odawa Nation, Yvonne Walker Keshick describes the long history of making decorative art from quills.

Bought by WSLR, KFCF FM, KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR

Three Musicians in Communion With Each Other

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Native flute master R. Carlos Nakai, luthier and guitarist William Eaton, and world percussionist Will Clipman return with an album of intuitive im...