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Native Nevada

Nevada Public Radio is presenting an eight-part podcast series on the culture, issues, and perseverance of Nevada’s Indigenous Peoples. This series is made possible, in part, by the financial support of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.

Native Nevada was recently announced as a winner of a 2022 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award!

Check out the list of winners!

Production Team

  • Richard Boland, host, is Timbisha Shoshone. He’s devoted much of his life to Native issues, including a high-profile land reclamation effort you can read about here. 
  • Assistant producer Jarrette Werk is A’aniiih and Nakoda from Fort Belknap Montana and has been living in Northern Nevada since 2014. Jarrette is an independent journalist and photographer, who focuses on rewriting the narrative of Indigneous Peoples within the media. Read more here.
  • Avory Wyatt, assistant producer, is Wašiw and Numu and grew up on the Hungry Valley Reservation in Sparks, Nevada. Avory is a land defender, water protector, and social justice activist who has worked closely with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
  • KNPR Senior Writer and Producer Heidi Kyser and KNPR News Director Joe Schoenmann produced the series.

  • Sound editing, mixing and mastering are by Regina Revazova of Open Conversation.

Made possible with a grant by San Manual Band of Mission Indians

Some music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Chapter 8: The Missing

Oct 19, 2021

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.

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Chapter 7: 'Our Relatives'

Sep 21, 2021

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.

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Chapter 6: The Artivists

Aug 24, 2021

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.

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Culture: Art Action

Aug 10, 2021

Native artivists draw on a long tradition of speaking truth to power. For KNPR’s Native Nevada podcast, a few of them talked about the messages of their predecessors and their own work.

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Chapter 5: The Homelands

Jul 27, 2021

Indigenous peoples’ connection to their ancestral homelands and Americans’ concept of “public lands” can intersect — or collide. 

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Chapter 4: The Students

Jul 06, 2021

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

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Chapter 3: The Teachers

Jun 15, 2021

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

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Chapter 2: The People From Here

May 25, 2021

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.

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RESTORE AND PROTECT: Brian Wohlgemuth and other River Justice activists collect trash along the Truckee River.
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River Justice

May 01, 2021

Native water protectors show the way to care for houseless community members and the environment. Can non-natives follow?

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New Podcast Focuses On Native Nevada

May 04, 2021

Though they were the first people here, the cultural and political issues impacting indigenous people in Nevada have been overlooked for decades. 

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Chapter 1: The Water Protectors

May 03, 2021

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.

 

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