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Native America Calling: Making more Native tourism connections

Friday, June 20, 2025

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Making more Native tourism connections

The stage drama “Unto These Hills” — put on by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians — is celebrating 75 years of telling southeast American history from a Native American perspective. It is a major tourism draw every summer to the outdoor Mountainside Theatre on the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina.

One enterprising Navajo entrepreneur is helping out Southwest tourism destinations, connecting travelers with the places they want to go while tribal businesses can hang on to more of their money.

What better time than the Summer Solstice to look around at Native American tourism draws for the season?

Cherokee Historical Association: “Unto These Hills”

Guests on Native America Calling

Laura Blythe (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), program director for the Cherokee Historical Association in North Carolina

DeAnnethea Long (Diné and San Carlos Apache), director of operations for Moenkopi Developers Corporation, an economic development entity for Upper Village of Moenkopi of the Hopi Tribe, headquartered in Arizona

Wyatt Gilmore (Navajo), CEO and owner of Laguna Creek and Native American Tours

Robert Hall (Blackfeet), Blackfeet Native American studies instructor at the Browning School on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation