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Wassaja

News from Indian Country produced and hosted by award winning Native journalist Mark Trahant.

  • Madam Vice President
    Sunday, December 21
    7:30 am on FNX 9.3
    Winona LaDuke has already made history. She's run for the vice presidency twice. She has received an electoral college vote. And she is a voice of conscience and change. Paul DeMain reports.
  • Mary Kathryn Nagle
    Sunday, December 28
    7:30 am on FNX 9.3
    Mary Kathryn Nagle is a busy attorney, practicing law in Oklahoma and Washington, DC, and in her spare time she is heading up a new program at Yale. She's also an amazing playright with shows running on both coasts.

 

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  • Family Legacy
    Sunday, December 14
    7:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Profile of Carol and Denise Juneau. Carol Juneau had a simple idea: Teach Indian education to all as a basic standard of citizenship. She was successful making that idea law as a state senator. Now her daughter, Denise Juneau will run Seattle's school district. Profile of the mother and daughter.
  • Thunderbird Woman
    Sunday, December 7
    7:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    If you Google "beyond Standing Rock" you will see pipeline battles in Oregon, Tar Sands debates in Alberta and threats of another military action along the Great Lakes. Paul DeMain reports featuring an interview with an Ojibwe elder.
  • Dominica
    Sunday, November 30
    7:30 am on FNX 9.3
    The Kalinago people were among the first Native Americans to encounter Columbus. More than five centuries they cling to their homeland on the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. The Tribe faces new challenges with climate change and stronger hurricanes.
  • She Represents
    Sunday, November 23
    7:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Mark Trahant introduces a history of newspapers with the same name "Wassaja". He also looks into the history of Congress, including the lack of representation by Native American women. He interviews two candidates, Debra Haaland and Sharice Davids, who hope to be the first Native American woman in Congress ever.
  • A New Era for Native Media - Vehicles of Indian Intelligence
    Sunday, November 16
    7:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    A year ago Native media was huddled in a hotel room talking about the death of Indian Country Today. Now the paper is back ... but it almost doesn't matter because there is so much Native media going on across the country. A golden age?
  • Mary Kathryn Nagle
    Sunday, November 9
    7:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Mary Kathryn Nagle is a busy attorney, practicing law in Oklahoma and Washington, DC, and in her spare time she is heading up a new program at Yale. She's also an amazing playright with shows running on both coasts.
  • Madam Vice President
    Sunday, November 2
    7:30 am on FNX 9.3
    Winona LaDuke has already made history. She's run for the vice presidency twice. She has received an electoral college vote. And she is a voice of conscience and change. Paul DeMain reports.