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Native Nevada (2021)
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  • Native women experience personal violence at rates exponentially higher than other groups. Why?In this episode, we explore MMIP, or Missing and Murdered…
  • LGBTQ-plus people were once integral parts of Indigenous communities. Colonization — and the introduction of Christianity — changed that. In this episode,…
  • Past episodes have examined how Natives persist through oppression. In this episode, we hear from a group of people whose life’s work is resistance:…
  • Indigenous peoples’ connection to their ancestral homelands and Americans’ concept of “public lands” intersect — or collide — when those lands are under…
  • Native students at Nevada’s two land-grant universities feel they aren’t getting the support they need. Among those working to change that are Ryan Boone,…
  • Native educators from around the state have banded together to tackle problems plaguing K-12 education, from a lack of student data being shared with…
  • In August 2020, an offensively named public agency in a small town near Lake Tahoe voted unanimously to change its name to Olympic Valley Public Service…
  • In the spring of 2020, the Southern Nevada Water Authority dropped its plan to pump hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of groundwater from Eastern Nevada…