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Native America Calling: Making more Native tourism connections
Friday, June 20, 2025
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?
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
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