The Department of the Interior’s Road to Healing tour began in July 2022 in Anadarko, Oklahoma, with one goal in mind: for the federal government to document, for the first time, oral histories from Indian Boarding School survivors and their descendants. Over the course of 16 months, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community) traveled to 12 communities across the United States to hear testimonies from boarding school survivors and their descendants.
Native News Online’s Jenna Kunze has been selected as one of 100 journalists from around the world to participate in the Oxford Climate Journalism Network’s program in 2024. Kunze, a senior reporter for the Indigenous-led news outlet, is one of just six North American journalists selected from a pool of 700 applicants worldwide for the prestigious program’s fifth cohort. The Oxford Climate Journalism Network supports a global community of reporters and editors across beats and platforms to improve the quality, understanding and impact of climate coverage around the world.
Join Native News Online’s Publisher Levi Rickert on this week’s Native Bidaské as he interviews Craig Parker, JD, CPA, CEO of Guideway Care. Parker has spent nearly 25 years building innovative healthcare companies with business models that improve care delivery and provide better experiences for all involved by reducing health disparities, improves patient/member satisfaction, and lowers the total cost of care. Before taking the helm at Guideway Care, Craig served as a senior leader in healthcare companies working in the patient experience and provider efficiency spaces.
Join Native News Online’s Publisher Levi Rickert on Friday, September 29, at noon for a very special Native Bidaské as he interviews Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Muscogee), the award-winning filmmaker behind “Reservation Dogs.” Now based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is the co-creator and showrunner of “Reservation Dogs” (FX Productions), a comedy series following four Indigenous teenage friends living on a reservation in Oklahoma.
Join Native News Online's Publisher Levi Rickert at noon today on Native Bidaské as he interviews Oglala Lakota composer Mato Wayuhi on his film and music composition work across Indian Country. Wayuhi, 25, Oglala is revolutionizing Indigenous music. He made Forbes' 30 Under 30 this year and is scoring the upcoming Marvel series Echo and the film War Pony, directed by Riley Keough, which won the Caméra d'Or award for best debut feature at the 2022 Cannes Festival.