Media diversity advocates say Native-owned radio stations are especially important on rural reservations and that more networks are needed
Loris Taylor knows firsthand how tough it can be to run a radio station in Indian Country.When she first took over KUYI 88.1 FM on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona in 2000, she had no support system and at one point made an engineer sketch equipment diagrams on an office chalkboard so she could see how everything fit together.
60 tribal managers from around country at ASU this week for certification as part of executive education program
Anni Leaman has a respectable-sized to-do list when she returns home to Massachusetts later this week.
She’s going to create a couple of new finance committees, check into whether her tribe can issue bonds on construction projects, find innovative ways to reduce her tribe’s debt and establish a first-time fraud hotline.
Emery Tahy left his home at age 16 after his high school counselor told him he’d be better off learning a trade since he was failing in school. Now he’s finishing his master’s degree at ASU while working toward his goal of becoming a tribal leader.
Tahy’s journey through life has taken him from the small Navajo reservation community of Westwater, Utah, to Job Corps, where he learned the value of working hard, and then to the university where he discovered a passion for American Indian Studies.
Phoenix streets using 'Squaw' in name might be changed
Dustin Gardiner, the Republic | azcentral.com
Every time Eddie Brown hikes his beloved Piestewa Peak, he passes by a street sign that still evokes troubling memories of the degrading way people spoke to his mother.
"Squaw Peak Drive," reads a sign at the head of the road leading to the gnarled mountain in east Phoenix.
Traci Morris, a nationally recognized tribal communications leader and expert, has been named director of the American Indian Policy Institute (AIPI) at Arizona State University.