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Native America Calling: Building community through radio

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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Building community through radio

Since the technology was first made publicly available in the United States more than a century ago, radio has endured repeated predictions of its demise.

Even with the explosion of digital streaming and on-demand podcasts, the nation’s top ratings firm finds at least 82 percent of Americans listen to traditional, terrestrial radio each week.

Tune in to mark National Radio Day by talking to Native people who have a passion for the medium, including the host of the longest-running Native radio show in Texas, a radio reporter who covers Indigenous affairs in Oklahoma and an Alaska teenager who built his own internet radio station in his bedroom.

Guests on Native America Calling

Sarah Liese (Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Diné), Indigenous Affairs reporter at KOSU

Albert Old Crow (Southern Cheyenne), Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal council coordinator and host of “Beyond Bows and Arrows” on KNON in Texas

 Colton Prince (Athabascan and Iñupiaq), owner of 98.5 Music Alaska

Bob Petersen (Yup’ik), network manager for Native Voice One (NV1), the distribution division of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation in Alaska

Interview with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota)

Also, listen to an extended interview NAC producer Sol Traverso did with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, about securing funding for 35 tribal radio stations before the passing of the recent rescission package in the 119th Congress.