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Culture Watchlist: ‘See What Canyon Life Is Like for a Navajo Pageant Winner’ 08.30.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase published a video to its YouTube channel featuring the Drapers, a Navajo family that is passing on the tradition of growing crops in Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. The video follows Tonielle and Tonisha Draper. Throughout the film, the two sisters explain the specific traditions, ceremonies …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Welcome to Native American Heritage Month 2021’ 11.14.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist To honor Native American Heritage Month in 2021, the Salem-Keizer School District posted a video to its YouTube channel with a Grand Ronde focus. Salem-Keizer School District Superintendent Christy Perry and Native Education Program Associate Shelby Maerz begin the video by introducing what Native American Heritage Month is in front of Grand Ronde …

Culture Watchlist: ‘World's largest trove of Native American language resources’ 05.12.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist In late April, a collection of Native American learning materials were unveiled at a United Nations forum. CBS News featured the story on its YouTube channel with an interview with The Language Conservancy’s Chief Executive Officer Wilhelm Meya. Like the endangered species list, The Language Conservancy has an endangered languages list …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Why some Native American Tribes do their best to avoid seeing an eclipse’ 04.12.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Although many Tribal members and United Stated citizens flocked to catch a glimpse of the eclipse, Arkansas CBS-affiliated 5News reports some Tribes have cultural beliefs that encouraged their people to avoid seeing it. Navajo Nation Tribal member Alaynna Littlefeather described her Tribe’s cultural practices during …

Culture Watchlist: Salmon return to historic habitat after largest dam removal project in the US 12.12.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist The largest dam removal project in United States history has allowed Chinook salmon to spawn in the tributaries of the Klamath River for the first time in 60 years. The Associated Press shared a video on YouTube in November 2024 about the historic return of fall Chinook salmon to the Klamath River. The video shared …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Why Treaties Matter’ 05.27.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Most Native people have heard there are hundreds of treaties signed between Native nations and the United States. Most Native people know these treaties relinquished Native people’s land rights and resource holdings for the right to preserve their way of life. National Public Radio published a video just before Thanksgiving in 2017 suggesting most non-Native people may know …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Searching for the Lost Graves of Indigenous Children in Canada’ 12.14.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist The New York Times published a video on its YouTube channel on Oct. 21 that follows a team of archeologists using ground-penetrating radar to analyze what hides beneath the surface at a former Native American residential school in Canada. This overdue reckoning has been an important topic over the last year with countries finally acknowledging the deadly history of assimilation …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Why the U.S. Army tried to exterminate the bison’ 01.12.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist Screenshot of Vox video. Vox published an eight-minute video on July 30, 2021, in which a picture taken in 1890 shows four American soldiers posing on a porch with eight severed bison heads. The video is called “ Why the U.S. Army tried to exterminate the bison ” and the narrator explains the picture was intended to depict the soldiers as “heroic defenders of an endangered and beloved …

Culture Watchlist: ‘How A Native American Artisan Keeps the 4,500-Year-Old Practice Of Wampum Alive’ 01.28.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist , Culture By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist In a recent video published on Dec. 4, 2021, Insider interviewed Narragansett Tribal member Allen Hazard, who is working to preserve and reclaim the tradition of making wampum, a purple and white material made from shells and often shaped like a bead or as jewelry. The video explains that today, wampum …

Culture Watchlist: ‘How a Native American Potter Uses the Tradition of Horsehair Pottery’ 02.28.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social Media/Digital journalist Eric Louis shares his family’s ways of making traditional Acoma pottery using horsehair and geometric etchings in an Insider video published to YouTube on Sept. 11, 2021. Louis and the video’s narrator explain the pottery he makes today starts out the same as it has for generations with the materials gathered locally …