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In the coming months, Nevada Public Radio will present an 8-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.

Production Team

  • Richard Boland, host, who is Timbisha Shoshone. He’s devoted much of his life to Native issues, including a high-profile land reclamation effort you can read about.
  • Jarrette Werk: 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.
  • Avory Wyatt: 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 alike.

  • KNPR Senior Writer and Producer Heidi Kyser

  • KNPR News Director Joe Schoenmann

  • Executive Producer, Open Conversation, Regina Revazova

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

Collection of Stories: 
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Native Nevada

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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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. Opponents of the plan, including several Native tribes, believed the project would have depleted precious water sources. There were many efforts to stop that project in the decades it was on the table. In this episode, we look at one that was by Indigenous people for Indigenous people: a 330-mile prayer run inspired by similar events objecting to the Dakota Access Pipeline and the reduction of Bears Ears National Monument. 

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The Valley

Apr 19, 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. Its namesake ski resort is also dropping the racial slur from its name, though it hasn’t picked a new one yet (as of production time). In this episode, we explore the violent history contained in the “S-word,” what led to getting rid of it, and how the change opens a door to healing for the Washoe people driven from their ancestral lands. Coming 5/24

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