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In this episode of Native Bidaské, host Levi Rickert speaks with Dr. Aaron Payment about the upcoming National Tribal Consultation on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) at the Shakopee Mystic Lake Casino Resort. Dr. Payment breaks down key findings from the 2016 National Baseline Study, including the fact that […]
Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland joins Native Bidaské for an in-depth conversation about her new memoir, A Voice Like Mine, her historic career in public service, and her campaign to become the next governor of New Mexico. Host Levi Rickert talks with Haaland about her journey from […]
Join us this Friday for a powerful new episode of Native Bidaské featuring Sam McCracken and Nikki Santos, Chief Executive Director of the Sam McCracken Youth Project. After decades of impact as the founder of Nike’s N7 division, McCracken is stepping into a new chapter—launching a Native-led initiative focused on […]
Is blood quantum slowly erasing Native tribes? Host Levi Rickert sits down with Norbert Hill and Megan Hill to tackle the colonial policy that’s mathematically eliminating Indigenous communities — one generation at a time. Drawing from their new book, Beyond Blood Quantum, the Hills examine how a 150-year-old colonial weapon […]
A detention center was built in the Florida Everglades—just 900 feet from sacred Miccosukee ceremonial grounds. There was no environmental review. No tribal consultation. Just fences, floodlights, and federal funding. This week on Native Bidaské, Miccosukee Chairman Talbert Cypress joins us to expose what’s happening at the site dubbed Alligator […]
Eighty years ago, the U.S. government detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb, the Trinity Test, in the New Mexico desert. The fallout didn’t just alter world history. It devastated the lives of nearby families and tribal communities, many of whom were never warned and have never been compensated. On the […]
LEVI RICKERT, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (Kansas), coming to us from Grand Rapids, Michigan Levi Rickert is an American Indian journalist. He serves as publisher and editor of Native News Online, http://nativenewsonline.net/ one on America’s most read daily news American Indian publications. Rickert, a tribal citizen of the Prairie Band […]
This Week in Native News: March 31, 2023 A Native American family in North Carolina is fighting a state-funded charter school’s demand that their first-grader cut off his traditional hair. The school is defining his traditional braids as “faddish.”
