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Catch these 2009 productions on your local tribal, public or community radio station. For more information contact Native Voice One Radio -- NV1.org or listen online. Check our schedule to see when they are on the AIROS livestream. 

The Red Road: Verna Yahola’s All Nation’s Café in Sapulpa, Okla., is where the all magic -- and mayhem -- happens. Legendary Choctaw country music star Patty Jones has asked Verna if she can do her 10th anniversary TV special at the eatery. Add a punk rock star from England, mix in a Navajo fry cook, stir in an Indian activist and fold in six more characters to let one of the most energetic productions from actress / singer / songwriter Arigon Starr and you’ll have the makings of a smorgasbord filled with laughter, original music and fun.

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Raven's Radio Hour: This hour-long Native Radio Theater Production celebrates the vast diversity of Alaska Native cultures with this heartwarmingly funny radio show. Hosted by Raven -- the trickster / creator character in all Alaska Native traditions -- this homage to the radio variety shows of the 1940s features timeless stories, traditional songs ... and jokes that’ll make you blow moose milk through your nose!

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Arigon Starr, a member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, and Dirk Maggs talk about their collaboration on their radio theatre production of The Red Road.  The one-woman musical production features Starr playing a full cast of characters, while transporting audiences back to 1977 and Verna Yahola's All Nations Cafe in Sapulpa Oklahoma.

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Check out these other interviews with producers whose programs will be coming to public television this fall:

• Bo Boudart and Norman Brown - Power Paths
• Reaghan Tarbell and Paul Rickard - To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey
  
• Tom Weildlinger and Joseph Bruchac - Jim Thorpe, The World's Greatest Athlete
• Stephen Most and Jack Kohler - River of Renewal
• Jeffry Silverman - For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow In Alaska
• Gary Robinson - Twelve Days of Native Christmas

This Thanksgiving, listen to accounts about European settlers and the indigenous people of America meeting for the first time from the perspective of Native American tribes from the East Coast. You'll also hear the impact of colonists on these tribes and the tribes fight to keep their cultures alive.

Jamestown: The Native American Connection: Two Virgina tribe chiefs share their knowledge of the extermination of 20 tribes at the hands of the English settlers during the first 100 years of settlement and the systematic "paper genocide" of all Native Americans in Virginia.
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Listen on the livestream (All ET):
Thursday, 11/26: 10am, 4pm, 10pm

Monacan Voices: Interviews with members of the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact and the paper genocide of the Virginia Indians.
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Listen on the livestream (All ET):
Thursday, 11/26: 8am, 2pm, 8pm