NAPT Resources

Stations it's Native American Hertiage Month. Make sure you provide your audience with great titles that entertain and educate.

Viewers Contact your local PBS station about when they are carrying these great new titles:

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow In Alaska: This documentary reveals the true-life story of an extraordinary Alaskan woman who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight for civil rights. Now on PBS.

Jim Thorpe: The World's Greatest Athlete: Beginning with Thorpe’s boyhood at the Sac and Fox Nation to his rise to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, filmmakers chronicle Thorpe’s win of two gold medals at the 1912 Summer Olympics and his fall from athletic grace. Now on PBS.

Power Paths: An exploration of energy through the eyes of Native Americans as they reveal their quest to tap wind, solar, biomass and other power sources for their communities and cities across the country. On the PBS series Independent Lens.

River of Renewal: Jack Kohler (Karuk/Yurok/Hoopa) returns to his tribe to discover how politics and economics have impacted tribal fishing and the environment after industry changes the Klamath River’s ecosystem. Now on PBS.

To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey: In parallel stories, Mohawk filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell follows the steps of her late grandmother and interviews Mohawk women who helped build Little Caughnawaga, the legendary Mohawk ironworking community, that lived in Brooklyn in the mid 1900s. Now on PBS.

The Twelve Days of Native Christmas: This short film is a visual and musical adaptation of the well-known classic Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas. On PBS starting Nov 15.

Thanks to our sponsors and volunteers for making the third biennial VisionMaker Film Festival a success! Over 600 people attended the 12 films, and three filmmakers, Milt Lee (Cheyenne River Sioux), Jack Kohler (Kurok/Karuk/Hupa) and Cristina Ibarra spoke with students and community members.

Sponsors included the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, the Sheldon Museum of Arts, the Nebraska Arts Council, Nebraska Humanities Council, the Lincoln Journal Star, Pinnacle Bank and Union Bank. Thanks to Michelle Kosmicki for helping us with the evaluation, and Princella Parker and Jessica Kinser for taking tickets.

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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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.

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!