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Culture Watchlist: ‘Indigenous In Plain Sight’ 08.12.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Smoke Signals social media/digital journalist Gregg Deal introduced himself as a husband, father, artist and activist during a TEDx event he spoke at in Boulder, Colo. A video of the event was published to YouTube on June 26, 2018, and has since amassed more than 135,000 views. In his talk, called “Indigenous In Plain Sight,” Deal uses the TEDx platform to talk about the Native American topics his …

Culture Watchlist: ‘This Land’ 11.15.2021 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist This edition of Smoke Signals’ Watchlist recommendation is more of a listen-list. “This Land” is a podcast series hosted by Rebecca Nagle of the Cherokee Nation and produced by Crooked Media. The podcast’s second season started releasing Aug. 23 and investigates the Indian Child Welfare Act, which recently landed on the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest season …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Who should be allowed to adopt Native American children?’ 02.14.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist HuffPost published a 12-minute video to its YouTube channel on Nov 11, 2019, breaking down the history, justifications and criticisms of the Indian Child Welfare Act. A few editions ago, we shared the This Land podcast , which does an extensive deep-dive into the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in its second season. If you don’t have time …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Oregon Experience – ‘Broken Treaties’ documentary’ 03.31.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Oregon Public Radio’s award-winning television series “Oregon Experience” shares the histories and issues that shaped the Oregon we live in today. One aspect of Oregon’s story is the continued presence of its Native American peoples. In November 2020, OPB published an hour-long documentary to YouTube called “Broken Treaties.” Following …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Indigenous families seek justice for boarding school abuse’ 04.14.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist Graphic by Samuel Briggs III By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Just 37 miles east of the Grand Ronde Reservation sits the Chemawa Indian Boarding School. The Salem school’s dark history was shared on the ABC News YouTube channel on April 1, 2022. Marsha Small is from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and a doctoral student at Montana State University. Small and her team use …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Camas. Gathering Wild Food of the Pacific Northwest: Camassia’ 05.12.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist As you can see by the stories and photos in this edition, Smoke Signals staff has attended several events this month celebrating the Native American first food camas. At these different events, Cultural Policy Analyst Greg Archuleta and Nursery Manager Jeremy Ojua shared how Native people traditionally harvested camas bulbs. But I …

Culture Watchlist: ‘The Forest Grove Indian Training School, 1880 – 1885’ 05.31.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist An article in this edition of Smoke Signals called “Indian boarding school report includes Grand Ronde location” has a companion video on our YouTube channel where we visit three federal Indian boarding school sites in Oregon listed in the Department of Interior’s report. In the video, Smoke Signals visited Chemawa Indian School, the site …

Culture Watchlist: ‘What We Can Learn About #LandBack From These Native American Comedies’ 06.29.2022 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist PBS introduced a new series called “Historian’s Take” to its PBS Origins YouTube channel in April 2022. In the latest 10-minute episode, “Historian’s Take” compares Native American representation in television during the 20th century versus the representation we see today. The episode introduces Tai Leclaire, a Mohawk actor …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Is Celilo Falls still intact?’ 03.14.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Over the years, Oregon, Washington and Idaho Tribes have questioned, “What happened to Celilo Falls when the Army Corps of Engineers built Dalles Dam?” In 2008, Oregon Public Broadcasting produced a video for its Oregon Field Guide channel answering that question. “For thousands of years, Native Americans had crossed Tribal boundaries, traveled from across …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Colorado Experience: Native Horses’ 05.31.2023 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist The debate on whether horses were used by Native Americans before or after Spanish contact is finally being answered. Rocky Mountain PBS published a video to its YouTube channel compiling the research archaeologists have done in the last few decades that has changed what was previously thought and taught about the history of horses in North America …