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Culture Watchlist: The history behind Native American Heritage Month 11.14.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist November marks the start of Native American Heritage Month. Although it is now nationally recognized, it wasn’t always the case. Kentucky news channel WHAS11 published a feature on Wednesday, Nov. 1, sharing the history of the month. According to the video, the U,/s, Senate stated that New York was the first state to pass American Indian Day …

Culture Watchlist: The “Indian Problem” 04.29.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist (Note: To supplement the coverage Smoke Signals provides, we are going to start sharing a video from our “Watchlist” with each edition of the paper. On the first and the 15th of every month, we will share a short summary and a link to a Native American-themed video we think you should watch. We are leaving the content and sourcing for our “Watchlist” open-ended; sharing …

Culture Watchlist: ‘How the U.S. stole thousands of Native American children’ 06.30.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Smoke Signals social media/digital journalist The history of residential schools in North America is once again in headlines. The Associated Press reported on Thursday, June 24, that 751 unmarked graves were found at a former Native American residential school in Saskatchewan, Canada. For this edition’s Native American Watchlist video, we chose the Vox video “How …

Culture Watchlist: ‘The Chef Bringing Native American Food to Your Table’ 07.29.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Sean Sherman is the owner of The Sioux Chef, a company focusing on re-identifying North American food with traditional Native American ingredients. Sherman and his company were featured in a three-minute video by Great Big Story, a storytelling media company that has amassed almost 6 million YouTube subscribers globally. Sherman’s story …

Culture Watchlist: Experience a traditional whale hunt in Alaska 09.14.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social Media/Digital Journalist With 18.4 million subscribers on National Geographic’s YouTube channel, sharing a video on traditional Native whale hunting in Alaska is bound to get some views. “Prayer for the Whale” is a nine-minute film posted on Nov. 27, 2018, as part of the Short Film Showcase, a collection of short “captivating” videos selected by National Geographic’s video …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Inupiaq food: A Barrow family describes how whale is prepared’ 09.30.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist In the Sept. 15 edition of Smoke Signals , we shared a video on the traditional Native Alaskan whale hunting experience . In this edition, we are sharing a video on how Native Alaskans process the whale meat and this way of life. The Alaska Dispatch News published a video in 2016 called “Inupiaq food: A Barrow family describes how …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Activists hold rally on Indigenous Peoples' Day outside White House’ 10.14.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist The Guardian’s YouTube channel, Guardian News, posted video clips from protests held near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2021, also known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The video describes hundreds of Indigenous people and activists rallied together to demand President Biden declare a national climate emergency …

Culture Watchlist: ‘The Origins of Native American Heritage Month’ 11.30.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist In America, we coincidentally celebrate Thanksgiving and Native American heritage in the same month. On Nov. 1, 2020, the first day of Native American Heritage Month last year, NowThis News published a four-minute video on YouTube with two southwest Natives, Wade M. Adakai and Antonio Ramirez, who shared the origin and timeline of Native American …

Culture Watchlist: 'Restoring the Olympia, Washington's only native oyster’ 12.29.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist A video published by the Puget Sound Partnership on Dec. 8, 2021, shares efforts to restore the once great population of Olympia oyster. Neil Harrington, an environmental biologist with the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe, starts the video by explaining the history of the oyster as the only native oyster to the state of Washington. Hundreds of thousands of acres of Olympia oysters once …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Handing over national park land to Tribes not a 'crazy idea’ 04.28.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Seattle news channel King5 published a video in Nov. 8, 2021, interviewing Billy Frank III while on the homelands of his people, the Nisqually Tribe. His father, Billy Frank Jr., was a well-known activist for Native American fishing rights. Billy Frank III is chairman of the Nisqually Tribe and his contemporary, Nisqually Tribal …