Native America Calling

Native playlist: Rap duo THRONE; Pete Sands & the Drifters

2023-03-15T11:15:27-05:00March 17th, 2023|

YVHIKV and Hayathes make up the group THRONE and they’re out introducing audiences to their latest single ‘Eels in the Water//Night’. Since their debut album “Lionfish,” released last year, THRONE has been garnering a big following on social media with their soulful and melodic sound.

Remembering Navajo leader Peterson Zah

2023-03-15T11:09:36-05:00March 16th, 2023|

Peterson Zah is known as the first president of the Navajo Nation and a leader with foresight and intelligence that ushered in a new era for his people. Zah died at the age of 85 and was laid to rest at his birthplace in Low Mountain, Ariz. after a memorial service and funeral procession.

Engaged Native youth increasing their profile

2023-03-13T09:43:01-05:00March 15th, 2023|

Representatives from the National Congress of American Indian Youth Commission say they are ready to pick up the torch on critical issues like climate change, missing and murdered Indigenous people, tribal consultation, and health disparities.

Anticipation for Avi Kwa Ame

2023-03-13T09:38:01-05:00March 13th, 2023|

President Joe Biden is expected to designate Avi Kwa Ame a national monument, but the action will have to wait. Tribes and environmental organizations pushed for the federal designation for a number of years before President Biden expressed his intentions to protect the 450,000 acre site last November.

Frybread Face and Me

2023-03-06T11:30:32-06:00March 7th, 2023|

Two adolescent cousins—one from the city and one from the rez—bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s Navajo Nation ranch in the 1990s.

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