Stations

Native Community Stations in the United States

For a map and listing of Native stations affiliated with the Center for Native American Radio, a centralized service bureau for nearly 30 public radio stations serving Native American listeners, click on "Stations" at www.cnapr.org/.

For a list of Native stations and links to their websites—some broadcast in their own community and some now have online streaming, enter here.

Latino Stations in the United States and Stations in Mexico

Map and listing of Satélite Radio Bilingúe (SRB) affiliate stations: www.radiobilingue.org/affiliates.htm (English and Spanish)

Native Community Stations in Mexico

For a printed map and listing of the affiliate stations of the Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenista, the "Indigenous Broadcasting System," go to www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=23 (Spanish)

Native Stations in the City

CFWE 89.9 FM
Allan@ammsa.com
www.ammsa.com/cfwe/
Canada. Local: Alberta, British Columbia
Alberta's first and most extensive aboriginal radio broadcaster provides programming via satellite to fifty-four First Nations communities in Alberta. The station, owned and operated by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society, plays Native and country music, multilingual features, and public interest announcements.

KNBA 90.3 FM
feedback@knba.org
www.knba.org
United States. Local: Anchorage, Alaska
KNBA-FM is the United States' first urban Native radio station. Playing twenty-four hours, this popular station offers commercial-free music, news, and cultural and local programming. The station also produces national programs like Earthsongs, Native Word of the Day, and National Native News. Its Website features online listening and a program archive.

Radio Bilingue
www.radiobilingue.org (English and Spanish)
United States. Local: Fresno, California (KSJV 91.5 FM)
Latino and international cultural information and news, including Mexican and Latin American musical programming. Among its original productions are the national Latino talk show Linea Abierta and Noticiero Latino national news. The Website features online listening and an archive of selected programs.
For a map of transnational broadcasting stations visit www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=619

Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenista (SRCI)
Its Website provides a newscast, broadcast schedule and programming. For a map and listing of the affiliate stations of the Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenista (Indigenous Broadcasting System) go to www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=23 (Spanish)

XECTZ 1350 AM
radioxectz@laneta.apc.org
http://civila.com/mexico/inipue2/Index.html
Mexico. Regional: Sierra Norte
XECTZ, "the voice of the Sierra Norte," is broadcast in indigenous languages to more than one thousand locations in the mountain range between the states of Puebla and Veracruz. It is the flagship indigenous radio station of the nationally supported Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenista (SRCI). Its Website provides audio samples of indigenous music, a broadcast schedule, and programming.

Programs

For information and links to local and national programs available online as well as broadcasting schedules, consult North American Indian Radio Online! at www.thepeoplespaths.net/indianradio.htm (English) and www.YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net/mainindex.html (Cherokee) or check the Websites of the individual programs. Some sites have information, some have audio clips, and some have live or archived programs available through the Internet.

Independent Radio Series
Independent radio series are produced by independent producers and organizations for national broadcast, but are not regularly scheduled, and may not be broadcast in your area. To hear these and other national programs by radio, check with your local public or independent radio stations or consult their Websites. Programs from some of the independent radio series are available for on-site listening in the Native media collection at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Some are also available through online streaming as noted.

California Indian Radio Project (CIRP)
Executive Producer: Peggy Berryhill
Project Producer: Joseph Orozco and Susan Newstead
www.flickerfeather.org
The California Indian Radio Project, a thirteen-part documentary series, opens a window onto the California Indian world, populated by more than three hundred tribes. Listeners gain an understanding of the rich mixture of old and new. Tribal participants with first-hand viewpoints narrate the programs. The series is available for broadcast free of charge to public radio stations.

Club Red
Executive Producer: Peggy Berryhill
www.nativetelecom.org/realmedia/clubred/index.html
Called "Monty Python with moccasins," this comedy series features Charlie Hill, Carla Plante, Bruce King, and Steve Tokar. Club Red to be launched for regular broadcast in 2001. In 2000 the program was aired as a Thanksgiving special, and a live performance was given at NMAI's 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival.

Living Voices/Voces Vivas, Series I
Produced by: the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Executive Producers for NMAI: Keevin Lewis (Community Services) and Elizabeth Weatherford (Film and Video Center)
Project Coordinator: Nan Rubin
Writers: Peggy Berryhill and Ginger Miles
Music motif by Ulali
www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/english.swf (English)
www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/spanish.swf (Spanish)
This fifty-part series of short profiles (40 in English, 10 in Spanish) focuses on Native people from various nations and backgrounds in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Panama. Living Voices is produced by NMAI's Community Services Department and the Film and Video Center. The series is available for broadcast free to tribal and public radio stations.

Opening the National Museum of the American Indian
For more information about these programs contact the Native Media Program at lewisk@si.edu or phone 301-238-1640.

• Telling Our Story. A one-hour documentary produced by NMAI's Media Program with KYUK, Bethel, Alaska, documents the historic day when Native Americans celebrated the opening of the NMAI on the National Mall. In English.
• First House. Six 5-min. programs about the NMAI opening, produced by NMAI with Andre Morrisseau and Aboriginal Voices Radio in Toronto. In English.
• Los Primeros Americanos. Six 5-min. programs about the NMAI opening, produced by NMAI with Radio Bilingue Satelite. In Spanish.

Oyate Ta Olowani, Songs of the People
Producers: Milt Lee and Jamie Lee
www.oyate.com
This radio series about Native music was taped in fifty locations, with musicians from twenty-six different tribes. The thirty-minute programs explore the meaning of music styles and traditions. Biographical profiles of the artists and listening samples, as well as music recordings and other radio programs for sale, are available on its Website.

Spirits of the Present
Executive Producer/producer: Peggy Berryhill
peggy@nativeamericanpublicradio.com
A series of thirteen half-hour documentary programs on various issues concerning Native America-casinos, sports, mascots, and border culture, among others-aired on 427 U.S. and Canadian radio stations. The series was produced for the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium (now NAPT) and Radio Smithsonian. It is available for on-site listening at NMAI in New York.

National Programs: Broadcast and Online
Many national programs are broadcast Monday through Friday at regular times by Native Voice One and Radio Bilingüe affiliates and other independent and public radio stations and are online, streaming live or through the website's archives. Other programs are broadcast locally and may be available in addition on CD. Check the Websites for broadcast and online streaming schedules and for links to the regular weekly and daily programs' own websites and/or instructions about how to participate in the live call-in programs.

Earthsongs
Originating Station: KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage, Alaska
Producer/Host: Greg McVicar
www.earthsongs.net
The award-winning Earthsongs explores through commentary, artist features, and music selections the Native influences that help shape contemporary American music. Earthsongs's Website provides online radio listening. Because it is broadcast by AIROS, refer to www.airos.org for affiliate stations and an online broadcast schedule.

Echoes in the Wind
Originating Station: WMPG 90.0 /104.1 FM, Portland, Maine
Producer/Host: Valerie Cartonio
programdirector@wmpg.org
www.echoesinthewind.com
Broadcast Monday from 11:30 am to 1 pm on WMPG 90.0/104.1, this program features traditional music of America's indigenous people. Also included are Native American poetry, legends, folklore, historical notes, news, and in-depth discussions of current issues. The program can be heard online at WMPG-FM's Website, www.wmpg.org.

Independent News from Oaxaca
In Spanish. The current political situation in Oaxaca is being reported and webcast by the University of Oaxaca online at http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca.

Linea Abierta
Originating stations: KSJV 91.5 FM, Fresno
Linea Abierta is Radio Bilingüe's live radio call-in program which daily takes up issues of immigration, cultural life in Mexico, and other issues of significance to indigenous Latino audiences.

Música Regional Mexicana
Originating Station: KSJV 91.5 FM, Fresno, California
Produced by the Radio Association of Oaxaca (Asociación Radiofónica Oaxaqueña), this program presents traditional music of brass bands and marimbas from Oaxaca and other parts of southern Mexico. It is carried on Satélite Radio Bilingüe and is broadcast Monday through Friday, 5 a.m. to 6 a.m., Pacific Standard Time. See its Website for online listening and a local station listing.

National Native News (NNN)
Originating Station: KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage, Alaska
Host: Bernadette Chato
www.nativenews.net
Founded in 1987, National Native News is the only daily news service focused on Native issues. It is currently being broadcast by 256 public radio stations, often scheduled with Native America Calling.

Native America Calling (NAC)
Originating Station: KUNM 89.9 FM, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Host: Harlan McKosato
www.nativeamericacalling.com
A production of Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
This one-hour call-in show, broadcast live Monday through Friday at noon, central daylight time, focuses on timely, topical, and lively issues in Indian Country. NAC is distributed to twenty-seven Native American radio stations and National Public Radio. It is simulcast by AIROS and Satélite Radio Bilingüe. AIROS also provides an online archives of recent programs.

Native Word of the Day
Originating Station: KNBA 90.3 FM, Anchorage, Alaska
Native Word of the Day is a radio spot designed to demonstrate the richness and variety of Native languages spoken in the United States, with a word or short phrase presented by a Native speaker. The spot is broadcast three times a day on KNBA 90.3 FM. Listeners everywhere can hear the word of the day online on its Website and also access an archive of past words and phrases.

Wixage Anai Mapuche Radio Show
In Spanish. A production of the Centro de Comunication Mapuche Jvfken Mapu in Santiago, Chile. This program is heard locally in Santiago and on-line at www.radiotierra.cl.

Weekly Programs

AlterNative Voices
Originating Station: KUVO 89.3 FM, Denver, Colorado
Producer/Host: Z. Susanne Aikman
www.alternativevoices.org
This program features Native music, interviews, and news reports relevant to Indian Country. It is live on Sunday mornings from 7 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. on 89.3 KUVO-FM. Live audio streaming is now available through KUVO radio's Website, www.kuvo.org.

Different Drums
Distributed by AIROS to public radio stations and available on-line.
Producer/Host: Tricia King
www.differentdrums.com
This weekly hour program of music and commentary by contemporary Native Americans frequently profiles individual artists or features current issues in Indian Country. Different Drums has been honored with eleven state and national awards since its beginning in 1996. For its online broadcast schedule, see www.airos.org.

First Voices Indigenous Radio
Originating Station: WBAI, 99.5 FM, New York, New York
Hosts: Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Mattie Harper
firstvoices@wbai.org
www.firstvoicesradio.org
Broadcast 10 - 11 am on Thursdays by WBAI, 99.5 FM, in New York City, First Voices is hosted by Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Mattie Harper, with indigenous guests from throughout the hemisphere speaking about numerous issues. First Voices frequently broadcasts live coverage of indigenous events at the United Nations and at other institutions in New York. The program is heard live, and is available on CD. For more information go to www.firstvoicesradio.org and also see www.wole.org and www.earthpeoples.org or email firstvoices@wbai.org.

Kuna Yala en 30 Minutos
Originating Station: BB Stéreo, 92.5 FM, Panama City, Panama
Director: Rogelio Albán
Host/Assistant Director: Anelio Merry López
Kuna Yala en 30 Minutos broadcasts information on important issues in the Kuna community, as well as other indigenous groups in Panama and the world. The program, now in its tenth year, is on-air every Saturday morning from 8:00 to 8:30 am throughout Kuna Yala—the homelands of the Kuna—on both the mainland of Panama and in the San Blas Islands.

La Mixteca
Originating Station: KSJV 91.5 FM, Fresno, California
Host: Filemón López
This bilingual program in Mixtec and Spanish features music from Oaxaca in southern Mexico. It provides information and public service announcements relevant to Mixtec people on both sides of the border. La Mixteca frequently links U.S. residents via telephone to Mixtec radio stations in the Mexican states of Baja California and Oaxaca.

Organizations

Aboriginal Voices Radio
P.O. Box 288, Station B, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 2W2
info@aboriginalvoices.com
www.aboriginalvoices.com
Canada. By spring 2001 a new initiative to establish a national network of First Nations radio stations, especially in urban centers, had gained licenses for two stations-Toronto and Calgary-with a license pending in Vancouver. The Aboriginal Voices Web pages are under construction, and online links to radio programs may not be available. For a transcript of the radio licensing hearings in Calgary, see www.turtleisland.org/news/calgary1.htm. For Resolution 92/99 passed by the Assembly of First Nations on "Development of Aboriginal Radio Services in Toronto & Elsewhere - December 7th to 9th, 1999," see www.afn.ca/resolutions/1999.htm.

AMARC, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
International Office, 666 Sherbrooke West St., Suite 400
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1E7
Phone: 514-982-0351
Fax: 514-849-7129
amarc@amarc.org
www.amarc.org (English, French and Spanish)
International. AMARC supports and contributes to the development of community and grassroots radio, with almost three thousand members and associates in one hundred and six countries. AMARC publishes a magazine, InteRadio, and two newsletters, one of them a publication of its International Women's Network. Excerpts from publications and information about the organization's activities worldwide is available on its Website.

The Center for Native American Radio
Executive Director: Loris Ann Taylor, loris@cnapr.org
Director of Services and Planning: Peggy Berryhill. peggy@cnapr.org
Director of Financial Affairs: Kai Aiyetero. kai@cnapr.org
www.cnapr.org
The Center for Native American Public Radio is a centralized service bureau recently established, with $1.5 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to provide technical, fundraising and programmatic support to nearly 30 public radio stations serving Native American listeners. Overseen by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, CNAPR is also guided by an advisory council of Native American stations and community leaders. The Center seeks non-traditional funding sources to aid the coalition of Native stations, which serve communities from the Alaskan tundra to the Arizona pueblo to the Native American populations of America's biggest cities. In addition to fundraising, the Center provides expertise in accounting, engineering, programming and other forms of technical assistance that small stations need to operate.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KBC)
719 East 11th Ave., Suite C, Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-258-8880
President/CEO: Jaclyn Sallee
National Program Manager: Susan Braine
Feedback@knba.org
www.knba.org
United States. Koahnic Broadcast Corporation provides American Indian and Alaska Native news and cultural programming to public radio listeners nationwide. Its national program productions include Native America Calling, Native Word of the Day, National Native News, and Earthsongs. KBC since 1992 has provided a Training Center to support the development of media careers for Native people. The center currently operates three primary programs-the Alaska Native Youth Media Institute, KNBA Apprenticeship Program, and KBC Fellowship Program. Its Website has information about them and provides the online radio programming of KNBA 90.3 FM.

Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT)
1800 N. 33 St., P.O. Box 83111, Lincoln, NE 68501
Executive Director: Frank Blythe
Phone: 402-472-3522
Fax: 402-472-8672
Native@unl.edu
www.nativetelecom.org
United States. NAPT encourages American Indians and Native Alaskans to create and use public telecommunications to educate and inform audiences about tribal histories, cultures, and languages. NAPT produces and distributes programming and provides training. Its Website provides abundant information on Native radio and television, numerous links and telecommunication listings, and a Native American radio station map.

Native Voice One
www.nv1.org
The new all-Native all-the-time radio distributor Native Voice One, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, was launched in July 2006, and began offering internet streaming on October 1, 2006. NV1 provides an outlet for Indians in urban centers and for diverse audiences interested in indigenous programming. Native Voice One currently distributes 11 programs including Native America Calling, Earthsongs, Alternative Voices, National Native News and Rezervations. It has 27 station affiliates, mostly public radio, and provides a menu of possible programs for them to broadcast. It's actively seeking additional programming and plans to support more independent producers to get their work made and broadcast. NV1 programming is distributed to stations throughout the United States and Canada.

NMAI Native Media Program
Executive Radio Producer: Keevin Lewis
Phone: 301-238-1640
lewisk@si.edu
Under NMAI's executive radio producer Keevin Lewis, special and on-going series are produced by the museum in collaboration with Native American and Latino community producers for broadcasting on public radio. Information for producers to contribute to the on-going series Living Voices and Time are available under "Outreach" at www.americanindian.si.edu.

Northern California Cultural Communications (NC³)
P.O. Box 650, Hoopa, CA 95546
Director: Rhoby Cook
Phone: 530-625-422
Phone: 800-461-3991
Fax: 530-625-5231
www.flickerfeather.org
United States. An independent, Native-controlled media and education resource organization founded in 1993, Northern California Cultural Communications is on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. It serves Native American and rural northern California communities by providing training in radio production and programming. The organization has recently produced the thirteen-part documentary series The California Indian Radio Project.

Satélite Radio Bilingüe (SRB)
5005 E. Belmont Ave., Fresno, CA 93727
Executive Director: Hugo Morales
KSJV Program Information: 800-200-5758
Fax: 559-455-5778
www.radiobilingue.org (English and Spanish)
United States and Mexico. Radio Bilingüe is the only national distributor of Spanish-language programming in U.S. public radio. It is the producer, through its flagship station KSJV-FM, of many national programs, including the Latino talk shows Linea Abierta and La Placita Bilingüe, Noticero Latino national news, and the indigenous documentary program La Mixteca. Its satellite service distributes its national and informational programs as well as cultural programs originating in its affiliates and in Mexico to more than sixty-five stations in the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Regularly scheduled music programs focus on traditional music, sung in Spanish and indigenous languages, from the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Zacatecas, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Michoacán, and Guerrero. It also distributes Native America Calling to its listeners. SRB's Website provides program descriptions and a schedule for national and affiliate programming.

Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenista (SRCI)
Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de México Radio Department
Colonia Tlacopac, Delegación Alvaro Obregón C.P. 01010
Av. Revolución # 1279, México D.F. México
Contact: Citlali Ruiz Ortiz
Phone: (52) (55) 5593 3028
radio@cdi.gob.mx
www.cdi.gob.mx/index.php?id_seccion=23 (Spanish)
México. The Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indigenista (SRCI), the "Indigenous Broadcasting System," was created in 1979 to provide services for communication, information, and the support of indigenous cultures. As part of Mexico's Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas (CDI), the national institute for indigenous peoples, SRCI is supported by the national government. CDI promotes and supports programs helping indigenous communities in economic development and in legal, political, cultural, and social areas. SRCI operates twenty-four radio stations in sixteen states of Mexico.

For More Information

Websites

North American Indian Radio Online!
nlthomas@YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net
www.YvwiiUsdinvnohii.net/mainindex.html (Cherokee), www.thepeoplespaths.net/indianradio.htm (English)
North American Indian Radio Online! is a service provided by the People's Paths Website. It provides links and brief descriptions of Native American programs and broadcasts. Check the Websites of the individual programs for detailed information, audio clips, and the availability of live or archived programs.

Turtle Island Native Network
www.turtleisland.org
Turtle Island Native Network is Canada's online source for aboriginal news and information, hosting discussions on topical issues and providing links to government and community organizations and cultural and educational resources. The Website offers extensive listings and links to radio stations and programs.

The Vision Maker
native@unl.edu
http://nativetelecom.org/news/
The Vision Maker, the newsletter of Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT), is now available online as well as in print. It reports news in the field of public radio and provides information on current activities of NAPT, AIROS, and the many tribal and public radio stations that receive its programming.

Books and Articles

Michael C. Keith, Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America, with foreword by Suzan Shown Harjo and Frank Blythe, afterword by Peggy Berryhill, Media and Society Series (Westport and London: Praeger, 1995). This first book-length study of Native communications history emphasizes the influence and impact of Native broadcast control on tribal communities.

Kallen Martin, "Listen: Native Radio Can Save Languages," Native Americas 13 (Spring 1996): 22-29. This overview of the issue of Native language preservation includes interviews with outstanding Native radio producers in Canada and the United States and provides detailed information on the use of Native languages and the possible impact of radio.

Catherine C. Robbins, "Indian Country Radio Sends a Stronger Signal," New York Times, February 4, 2001. Starting with a description of the opening at Hopi of KUYI-FM, the most recent tribal community station, this article provides an overview of the organizations active in Native radio today.

Image credit: Harlan McKosato, "Native America Calling" Host Drumbeat for Mother Earth - Courtesy Joe Di Gangi/Amon Giebel