3decades Native american public telecommunications We are celebrating 30 years of supporting the creation, promotion and distribution of Native media for public television and radio. As Founding Director in 1976, I’m proud to say that our original vision to authentic voices, stories and portrayals of American Indians remains vital today. I thank all the independent media makers with whom we’ve worked over the years.

Our annual support for Native radio and television programming means more tribal voices and faces have been seen and heard by millions of viewers and listeners.

Now as we look to the next 30 years, our new Vision Maker Fund will support new media makers in telling Native stories through the ever-changing formats, screens and speakers created by new developments in technology.

It was an exhilarating time when we pioneered Native media in public broadcasting 30 years ago, and it’s just as exciting today as we see unlimited opportunities for Native voices and faces to be heard and seen worldwide almost instantly.

Under new Board and staff leadership, NAPT will stay at the forefront—presenting new styles of Native content on the Internet Siyo!while we continue to fund production for television and radio. Thank you for your recognition and support of our three of media work.

Frank Blythe Founding Director

4 | NAPT THREE DECADES | My first exposure to Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium was as a young producer with South Dakota Public Broadcasting. While shooting a documentary about Dakota artist Oscar Howe, I met Salish, French-Cree, and Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. Jaune helped me get to a conference in Albuquerque that NAPBC and the American Indian Film Institute were hosting. At that workshop I made friends that continue to counsel and guide me along the way—including Frank Blythe.

I’m grateful to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for their initial and continued support of our work, as well as the work of the other National Minority Consortia members: the Center for Asian American Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, the National Black Programming Consortium, and Pacific Islanders in Communications. Together we have changed the complexion of Public Television.

We’re at a crossroads right now, as are many media organizations. Our options are many and with the support of Native content makers Pilamaye—Thankand audiences around the world, NAPT will increase you the impact of tribal stories, culture and language.

I’d like to thank Frank Blythe for his leadership in the first 30 years of NAPT. A big wopila goes out to the staff. I’m privileged to work with such a dedicated team of individuals who care deeply for this organization and its mission. Together with a committed and visionary Board of Directors, we will continue to play a vital role in electronic storytelling. I am truly excited and honored to be working with all of you to support the creation, promotion and distribution of Native public media.

Shirley K. Sneve Executive Director

| NAPT THREE DECADES | 5 1976 1984 From American Indian Artists Series Six Native producers in public Conducts first Native American television meet to charter Native Satellite network feasibility study, American Public Broadcasting Smoke Signals to Satellite, with the Consortium (NAPBC), the original American Indian Higher Education corporate name for NAPT Consortium, Native radio stations, and tribal nations Frank Blythe becomes NAPBC’s first Executive Director 1990 1977 Launches $500,000 annual Television Program Fund for Opens its office at the Nebraska Native producers and productions, Educational Telecommunications with support from the Corporation Center, in association with the for Public Broadcasting University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1992 1979 1995 Co-produces In the White Man’s Initiates the first national library Image with Nebraska ETV for Native America Calling premieres of Native television productions American Experience, the PBS on AIROS as the first daily with support from Public Television history series all-Native live radio talk show stations across the country Changes its name to Native American Public 1994 1980 Telecommunications (NAPT) as its mission broadens to meet Begins American Indian Radio the needs of its constituents Co-sponsors the first National on Satellite (AIROS) Network and the changing technological Indian Media Conference with service to a growing number environment the American Indian Film Institute of Indian radio stations

1996

Executive produces Storytellers of the Pacific, an international program series broadcast on PBS with ABC Australia, New Zealand TV, Pacific Islanders in Communications and TV Ontario

1997

Premieres Native Sounds-Native Voices as the first radio music program service for AIROS

AIROS.org becomes one of the first internet web sites to offer streaming audio, in partnership with UNL’s Institute of Agriculture NET engineers and NAPT’s John Gregg check the AIROS KU transmitter and Natural Resources

6 | NAPT THREE DECADES | PIONEERING HIGHLIGHTS FOR NATIVE MEDIA

2003 2006

Premieres Colorvision, a National Premieres Indian Country Diaries, Minority Consortia series on a two-part series on urban and American Public Television reservation Indian life on PBS, co-produced with Adanvdo Vision

Premieres Seasoned with Spirit, 2005 a five-part series on traditional Native foods and culture for Receives support for the Native PBS with Native Chef, Loretta Radio Theater project from the Ford Barrett Oden, in partnership with Foundation, in partnership with Connecticut Public Television Native Voices at the Autry Frank Blythe announces his Hosts the Flatwater Film Festival in retirement. The NAPT Board of partnership with the Mary Riepma Directors names Shirley K. Sneve Ross Film Media Arts Center in to succeed Frank as executive Lincoln, Nebraska director Floyd Westerman and Charlie Hill Together with NET Television, Creates the Vision Maker Fund the Native American Journalists to support program opportunities 1999 Association, and the Lincoln Journal to non-broadcast productions for Star, NAPT hosts Indian Casinos- distribution on the AIROS Native Co-Produces Club Red featuring What’s Next?, a town hall style Network and venues beyond Charlie Hill, along with the program for national distribution Public Broadcasting Native Media Resource Center

2001

Creates the authentic VisionMaker Video library for retail and educational sales on line

2002

Co-produces Matters of Race for PBS with the National Minority Consortia members Chef Loretta Barrett Oden and Geraldine-Goes-In-Center of Seasoned with Spirit

| NAPT THREE DECADES | 7 Aleut Story

Casino Nation

American Indian Artists COLORES Series: Distant Voices, Thunder Word Series (three-part series) Bob Haozous: My Art, My Culture Native American Public Native American Public KNME -TV Broadcasting Consortium & Broadcasting Consortium Nebraska Educational Television ColorVision Aboriginal Architecture (five-part series) The Elizabeth Peratrovich Story Mushkeg Media National Minority Consortia & (short) JohnsonWorks Blueberry Productions Aleut Story Sprocketheads The Creek Runs Red Eyes of the Spirit Julianna Brannum KYUK-TV Bethel American Cowboys Oregon Public Broadcasting & Dancing On Mother Earth Fire Warriors Wildbill Productions 2pEEps Productions 360° Productions

Amiotte Dancing to Give Thanks Forest Spirits South Dakota Public Broadcasting Nebraska Educational Television (seven-part series) Russ Widoe Ancient Spirit, Living Word Dancing with Photons impossible Artz Chain Reaction Productions Gannagaro WXXI-TV Apache Mountain Spirits Silvercloud Video Productions

The Art of Being Indian: Filmed Aspects of the Sioux South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Beyond Reservation Road Boys & Girls Clubs of Green Country, Inc.

A Blackfeet Encounter Native View Pictures & Going to the Sun Institute

California’s Lost Tribes Jed Riffe Films

Casino Nation Ignition Pictures

Aboriginal Architecture

8 | NAPT THREE DECADES | The Gifts of Santa Fe Indian Country Diaries Marguerite J. Moritz

Grandfather Sky Chariot Productions

The Great American Footrace Big Productions

Hand Game Lawrence Johnson

Harold of Orange Film in the Cities

Health Care Crisis at Rosebud South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Herman Red Elk: A Sioux Indian Artist South Dakota Public Broadcasting

TELEVISION BROADCAST PROGRAMS

Homeland: Indian Country Diaries Four Portraits of Native Action (two-part series) Katahdin Native American Public Telecommunications & Adanvdo Vision I Am Different From My Brother Native American Public Keep Your Heart Strong Broadcasting Consortium Red Eye Video

In the Light of Reverence Kinaalda Sacred Lands Film Project Lena Carr

In the Mix: Native American Teens The Last Conquistador Castle Works Kitchen Sync Productions

In the White Man’s Image The Last Stand Native American Public Paul Stekler Broadcasting Consortium & Nebraska Educational Television Legacy in Limbo WXXI-TV Indian Casinos: What’s Next? Native American Public The Great American Footrace Telecommunications & NET Television

| NAPT THREE DECADES | 9 On & Off The Res with Charlie Hill Upstream Productions

One Water, One Air, One Earth Idaho Public Television

Oscar Howe: The Sioux Painter South Dakota Public Broadcasting

Pomo Basketweavers : A Tribute to Three Elders (three-part series) Creative Light Productions

Pride and the Power to Win KSPS-TV Spokane

Pride, Purpose, and Promises: Paiutes of the Southwest Looking Toward Home KLVX-TV Pueblo Peoples: First Encounters Looking Toward Home A Native American KNME-TV Conroy Chino, Dale Kruzic & Night Before Christmas Race Is the Place Beverly Morris Tribal Eye Productions Paradigm Productions

Marks of the Ancestors Native Word: The Real People Echo Productions Stories Past and Present (nine-part series) (a compilation of three short films) Matters of Race KSPS-TV Spokane ROJA Productions • Indians for Indians Ava Hamilton Red Road: Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege Toward the Techno - Tribal Tribe • Reality Show impossible Artz Na Maka o ka `Aina Lurline McGregor & Joy Harjo Mino-Bimadiziwin: The Good Life • The Oneida Speak Return of Navajo Boy Jeff Spitz Productions Red Eye Video Wisconsin Public Television Navajo Code Talkers Robert Mirabal - The New Pequot: A Tribal Portrait Music From A Painted Cave Native Film & Video Connecticut Public Television James Scalem Productions

Rocks with Wings

10 | NAPT THREE DECADES | Rocks with Wings Standing Silent Nation Oregon Public Television & Prairie Dust Films Shiprock Productions Storytellers of the Pacific The Runaway (two-part series) Nebraska Educational Television Native American Public Telecommunications & Sacred Buffalo People Pacific Islanders in Communications Red Eye Video Surviving Columbus Seasoned With Spirit KNME-TV, Conroy Chino & (five-part series) George Burdeau Native American Public Telecommunications & Teachings of the Tree People Connecticut Public Television Islandwood in association with Resolution Pictures They Never Asked Our Fathers Silent Thunder Alexie Isaac Midthunder Productions Trudell Warriors Singing Our Stories Appaloosa Pictures Omni Film Productions & Full Regalia Productions Uncle Sam’s Men Wabanaki: A New Dawn KYUK-TV Bethel Dennis Kostyk & David Westphal Songs of the Spirit Native American Public Vis á Vis: Native Tongues Walela Live In Concert Telecommunications & KNME-TV Yerosha Productions & Rich-Heape Films Nick Torrens Film Productions Sound Mix: Five Young Musicians Warrior in Two Worlds Free Range Productions The Voyage Home WXXI-TV Williams Communciations Warriors Red Eye Video Trudell We Shall Remain (five-part series) WGBH/American Experience

Whispers (two-part series) George Angelo

Who Owns the Past Jed Riffe Films

Wit, Grit and Robot Games KHUT-TV

Woonspe: Education and the Sioux South Dakota Public Broadcasting

XIT: Without Reservation SOAR Corporation

Yuma Crossing Chariot Productions

TELEVISION BROADCAST PROGRAMS

| NAPT THREE DECADES | 11 AlterNative Voices (series) First Americans in the Arts Awards Interview with the President of NCAI Suzie Aikman (1997) (2002) American Indian Radio on Satellite KMHA American Indian Living (series) Native Education and Health Initiative Fulbright Symposium: Jamestown 2007: Indigenous Cultures in The Native American Connection American Indian/Alaska Native an Interconnected World WHRO-TV Service Delivery Conference (2000) Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Social Security Administration KBOO American Indian Word & Full Circle Music Festival Audio Drama Live from Native American Resource Center KBOO National Audio Theatre Festival Native American Public Gathering of Nations Powwow Leonard Adam Live Telecommunications KUNM (1998, 2000), KTDB (2000), from Northern Lights Southwest Stages (2005 & 2006) Superb Records California Indian Radio Project (13-part series) Memory and Northern California Imagination: Cultural Communications Native America Calling The Legacy of & KIDE Maidu Indian Artist Frank Day Canadian National Museum of the Aboriginal Festival- American Indian Live (1997 & 2004) Miserable Kingdom: Aboriginal Voices Radio Live Pueblo Revolt Drama and Panel Claiming Our Seat Discussion KILI KUNM

Club Red featuring Native America Charlie Hill Calling (series) (five-part series) Alaska Public Radio Native American Public Network (1994 - 1996), Telecommunications & Native American Public Native American Telecommunications Resource Center (1994 - 2001), Koahnic Broadcast Corporation Coyote Bites Back: (1996 - Present) Indian Humor National Museum of Harvard’s Honoring Nations Native American Music Awards Program (three-part series) the American Indian WBAI (1998), Koahnic Broadcast Jim DeNomie Corporation (1998, 2000, 2001), Diabetes in Indian Country Jim DeNomie (2002 & 2003), AIROS Native American Resource Center Highlights from the 11th Annual Wellness and Women Conference Native Network (2004) Different Drums (series) Native American Resource Center Native Radio Theater Tricia King Honoring the Memory Keepers One-Hour Special Dying for Water: KFAI Native American Public Indians, Politics and Dead Fish Telecommunications in the Klamath River Basin Inaugural Pow Wow on the National Mall Native Roots & Rhythms 2000 Northern California Cultural Jon Ghahate Communications & KIDE National Museum of the American Indian Indigenous: Native Sounds - Native Voices, Earthsongs (series) National Edition (series) Koahnic Broadcast Corporation Live at Pachyderm Studios Pachyderm Studios Native American Public Enduring Freedom: Telecommunications INET Radio: Honoring Native American Native Sounds - Native Voices, Women Veterans A Spoof of Native America Calling KUNM Regional Edition (series) Native American Resource Center KABR, KCIE, KEYA, KGHR, KGLP, KMHA, KNBA, KSUT, KUYI, WOJB & Native American Public Telecommunications

12 | NAPT THREE DECADES | Native Voices, Native Votes Spirit Line (series) Voices from the Circle (series) KNME-TV KGHR Jim DeNomie

Navajo Place Names Spirits of the Present (series) Voices Without Frontiers KABR Native Media Resource Center & (2000 & 2001) Native American Public World Association of NMAI National Powwow (2005) Broadcasting Consortium Community Broadcasters National Museum of the American Indian State of Indian Nations We Are Still Here NNI Radio: Native Nation (2005 & 2006) National Museum of the American Indian Building Series (10-part series) National Congress of the Native Nations Institute American Indian Wellness Conference 2005 Native American Resource Center Oyate Ta Olowan: Telling Our Story Songs of the People (26-part series) National Museum of the American Indian What Happened at Red Lake Lee Productions & KYUK Minnesota Public Radio & American Public Media Reach the Rez Radio The Indolent Boys Litefoot Native Voices at the Autry White Bison Wellbriety Movement: Honoring Native Recovery Rivers that Were (two-part series) Native American Resource Center Barbara Bernstein

RADIO, WEBCAST AND PODCAST PRODUCTIONS

Salmonlands The Opening Moment: Windsongs (series) Barbara Bernstein An NMAI Celebration KGHR National Museum of the Schemitzun Powwow American Indian & Winter Stories KILI (2002), Native American Koahnic Broadcast Corporation American Indian Radio on Satellite Resource Center (2003 & 2004) & AIROS Native Network (2005) To Hold Tightly Wisdom of the Elders (series) Native American Resource Center Rose High Bear September 11th News Reports: One Year Later Trading in Metaphors: WOJB’s Hand Drum Contest Brian Bull/Peggy Berryhill The Opening of the NMAI in NYC WOJB National Museum of the Signals (series) American Indian Women and Wellness: Lance Tail Feathers Honoring Our Mothers UnderCurrents (series) Native American Resource Center Speeches from the Radiocamp & Koahnic Broadcast 60th Annual National Congress Corporation Worlds Apart: Indigenous People of American Indians (five-part series) Bridging Traditional and Modern Jim DeNomie United Tribes International Pow Wow Ways of Life (2002) Radio Netherlands KLND

| NAPT THREE DECADES | 13 Board of Directors

Dr. Octaviana Valenzuela Trujillo Chair (Yaqui) Professor and Chair of the Applied Indigenous Studies Department, Northern Arizona University David Cournoyer Vice Chair (Rosebud Sioux) Program Director, Jim May Rita Pyrillis Lumina Foundation for Education (United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee) (Cheyenne River Sioux) Brian Bull Native American TV Board Journalist Secretary (Nez Perce) Nan Rubin Lyn Dennis Assistant News Director, Community Media Services (Lummi) Wisconsin Public Radio Rod Bates Executive Director, Sydney Beane General Manager, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Treasurer (Flandreau Santee Sioux) Nebraska Educational Chris Eyre Senior Community Telecommunications (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribe of Development Specialist and Oklahoma) Native American Team Leader, Maynard Orme Filmmaker/Producer/Director/Actor Center for Community Change Oregon Public Broadcasting

Staff

Shirley Sneve John Gregg, Sr. (Sicangu Lakota) (Inupiat/Hopi) Executive Director Project Coordinator Frank Blythe Penny Costello (Eastern Band of Cherokee/ Project Coordinator Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) Rebecca Fauver Development Director Contract/Accounting Assistant Mary Ann Koehler Lynn Warren Business & Projects Manager Office Assistant Eric Martin Interactive Media Specialist

14 | NAPT THREE DECADES | Funders and Partners

American Public Television Lincoln Arts Council National Video Resources

Annenburg Foundation Lincoln Indian Center Native American Journalists Association

Atlantic Richfield Lincoln Journal Star, Native American Rights Fund A Lee Enterprises Publication Caption Max Nebraska Arts Council Markle Foundation Center for Asian American Media Nebraska Educational Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center Telecommunications Corporation for Public Broadcasting National Alliance for Media Arts Nebraska Humanities Council Ford Foundation and Culture Northwest Area Foundation Independent Television Service National Black Programming Consortium Pacific Islanders in Communications Institute of Agriculture and National Congress of American Indians Natural Resources PBS National Educational Television Institute of American Indian Arts Association Public Radio Satellite System

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur National Indian Lutheran Board Public Service Satellite Consortium Foundation National Museum of the American Indian Ruth Mott Foundation Latino Public Broadcasting National Telecommunications and W.K. Kellogg Foundation Information Administration

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