Indigenous

  With Music, poems, rap and more - all things Native - for our Indian Country --- Poetry by William Nuutupu Giles, an Afakasi Samoan writer and arts educator from Honolulu, Hawaii. They have performed poetry on stages across North America including the San Francisco Oper... Read more

  This program was originally broadcast on October 24, 2022 For thousands of years the north reach of the Willamette River, near its confluence with the Columbia, was a braided river of shallow channels and islands rich in biodiversity. That was until European settlers cam... Read more

  Raye Zaragoza is an award-winning singer-songwriter who carries an acoustic guitar and a message. Her quiet yet powerful song In the River, written in response to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, res... Read more

Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in 1978 following over 100 years of federal policies that separated Native children from their families and frequently placed them in non-Native homes.  A pending decision before the US Supreme Court centers on the legalit... Read more