Native Voice One Podcast

Round 3 – December 6, 2025 The 67th Annual Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada traces its roots to the birth of professional rodeo’s crescendo, beginning 1959–1961 in Dallas, Texas. The finals moved to Los Angeles from 1962–1964, then settled in Oklahoma City from 1965–1984, with a one-year stop in Arlington, Texas in 2020.  In 1985—40 years ago—the Wrangler NFR mo...

Round 2 – December 5, 2025 The 67th Annual Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada kicked off the second of 10 performances Friday night, as the western culture of the United States and Canada descended in full force on the City of Lights. It’s hard to imagine that December desert 40 years ago, when the NFR first moved to Las Vegas in 1985 with $1.8 million added. Fast forward to...

Injune, Queensland, Australian cowboy Damian Brennan is not only as a saddle bronc rider on the rodeo trail, but also as a working cowboy chasing cattle across the vast outbacks of the land down under. Since 2021, Damian has amassed three Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifications, finished runner-up to the world title, claimed second in the NFR aggregate, and earned over $1 million in prize mo...

Massasoit was the leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy when English settlers landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620.  He and his people kept the Pilgrims from starving in the early years of their settlement, attended the first Thanksgiving and forged a peace treaty with the English that lasted 40 years until his death.  We’ll talk with American Indian scholars Darius Coombs and Bob Ch...

Peace Talks Radio explores efforts to rename and reclaim holidays like Columbus Day, Thanksgiving, and Veterans Day. When there are false narratives behind those holidays, it can be hurtful and harmful. Those stories might be covering up painful truths; the holiday names can be used to promote the political agendas of those in power. Mahtowin Munro (Oglala Lakota), co-leader of United American Ind...

Enduring Freedom – Honoring Native Women Veterans offers a rare and powerful look at a shared history through the voices of Native women who served. Recorded in the early 2000s, these veterans reflect in their own words on their experiences in the U.S. military — from the challenges of service and the prejudice they faced as women and as Native people, to the pride of representing their Nations an...

The government that tried to destroy Indigenous culture used it as a weapon on the battlefield. Most of the men who had been sworn to secrecy during the war kept those secrets as long as they lived. But their families and tribal communities remember. Host Travis Zimmerman helps tell two stories: One about Lex Porter, an Ojibwe speaking code talker from Grand Portage and a member of the Fond du Lac...

A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.

Tribal traditions, culture, and language are ways being used to help keep Native people out of the justice system. Many who’ve been through the Western justice system say often times addiction, and not addressing historical trauma, led to them ending up locked up, while advocates continue to lean on Indigenous ways of life for prevention, reentry, and recovery efforts. We’ll also hear from young p...

A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.

The 2025 theme for the Alaska Federation of Natives Annual Convention is Standing Strong, Standing United . The theme is seen as members rejoin the AFN after leaving the statewide organization following disagreements. The theme is also seen as tribes and Native groups across the country continue to advocate for Native issues key to their communities, including threats to their subsistence way of l...

A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.

Storytelling is a rich tradition in Alaska Native culture, and radio stations often play a role in keeping that tradition alive. They also offer much more to the communities they serve, especially in rural Alaska. Radio stations provide emergency alerts, news and information, and cultural programs. Tribal and rural radio stations are now at risk of going dark after the elimination of federal fundi...

A five-minute newscast focused on activity at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, anchored by Jill Fratis.

Antonia Gonzales from National Native News, producer Emily Schwing, Jill Fratis from our flagship station KNBA, and the Alaska Desk’s Alena Naiden bring us all the action from the 2025 Native Youth Olympic (NYO) Games. This program provides up-close interviews and discussions with NYO participants, leaders, and culture bearers. This first of three episodes introduces the NYO Games in Anchorage, hi...

Antonia Gonzales from National Native News, producer Emily Schwing, Jill Fratis from our flagship station KNBA, and the Alaska Desk’s Alena Naiden bring us all the action from the 2025 Native Youth Olympic (NYO) Games. This program provides up-close interviews and discussions with NYO participants, leaders, and culture bearers. This second of three episodes focuses on the pivotal role of Indigenou...

Antonia Gonzales from National Native News, producer Emily Schwing, Jill Fratis from our flagship station KNBA, and the Alaska Desk’s Alena Naiden bring us all the action from the 2025 Native Youth Olympic (NYO) Games. This program provides up-close interviews and discussions with NYO participants, leaders, and culture bearers. This final of three episodes shares athlete achievements and record-br...

Climate change has sparked a move toward renewable energy, like nuclear power. But some Indigenous communities in the West are dealing with a troubling nuclear legacy – cancers caused by atomic testing and uranium mining. They want Congress to revive a law that provided money for screening and medical care. Our Living Lands is a five-minute, weekly segment focused on climate change’s impact on Ind...

In the Navajo Nation, some families are dealing with the challenges of living without electricity. Now, a mutual aid program is connecting some of them to the grid for the first time. But it’s an effort that relies on volunteer workers and funding … and getting enough of each is a challenge, as Mountain West News Bureau’s Kaleb Roedel reports in the second installment of this two-part story. Our L...

Nationwide, nearly 17,000 homes on tribal lands don’t have electricity. A majority of them are spread across the Navajo Nation, where climate change is making it harder for families to keep cool. In the first installment of this two-part story, the Mountain West News Bureau’s Kaleb Roedel visited the reservation to learn how Navajo families are coping without power. Our Living Lands is a five-minu...

We have the results of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) crowned Wrangler NFR Champions earning $86,391.00 for being the best out of 10, round winners earning $33,687.00 in each event and the World Champions. We also have interviews with: All Around World Champion Shad Mayfield of New Mexico and Bull Riding World Champion Josh...

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) produce an event that has sold out every performance since 1959 including being the hottest ticket in the city of lights 39 years at the Thomas & Mack Center that seats 17,015; obviously the action and competition does not disappoint.  We have results of the  Wrangler NFR round number 9 of...

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) has the most respectful fans in sports, as witnessed by all hats on hearts in the stands and even in the packed corridor where everyone stopped in their tracks for both National Anthems on Canadian night.  We have results of the  Wrangler NFR round number 8 of 10, aggregate and world title lea...

The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) honored the Bill Linderman Award to the high money winner for the year that competes at both ends of the arena. Congratulations to bull rider, tie down roper, steer wrestler and single steer roper, Caleb McMillan of Washington.  We have results of WNFR round number 7 of 10, aggregate and world...

We have results of WNFR round number 6 of 10, aggregate and world title leaders plus interviews with last night’s winners, Bareback Bronc Rider of Texas, Rocker Steiner and Cherokee from Oklahoma Brenten Hall, Header Team Roping. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) feature the best of 10 rounds of competitio...