Native women experience personal violence at rates exponentially higher than other groups. Why? In this episode, we explore MMIP, a movement to call attention to the causes of this problem, and demand change and accountability. 

WARNING: Explicit descriptions of violence against Indigenous People are included throughout this episode.

LGBTQ-plus people were once integral parts of Indigenous communities. Colonization — and the introduction of Christianity — changed that. In this episode, hear about some Natives who are reclaiming their identities.

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” can intersect — or collide. 

Native students at Nevada’s two land-grant universities feel they aren’t getting the support they need.

Native educators from around the state have banded together to tackle problems plaguing K-12 education.

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 District.

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 and pipe it 300 miles south to Las Vegas.