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Culture Watchlist: “Salmon Wars” podcast 03.29.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist One of Oregon Public Radio’s most popular podcasts, “Timber Wars,” recently published its sequel in collaboration with ProPublica called “Salmon Wars.” Reporter Tony Schick narrates the podcast and shares the voices of a Yakama Nation family who has been fighting for salmon and fishing rights for generations. “As a white kid growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I’d look out …

Culture Watchlist: ‘The tragic story of this famous meteorite’ 04.30.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist The culturally significant Tomanowos meteorite from the Willamette Valley is currently held on display in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Every year, a few Grand Ronde Tribal members coordinate with the museum to pay a visit to Tomanowas to smudge it, clean it with cedar branches and spend time with it. In 2023, a welcome brunch …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Farmington High School graduate told to remove Native American beaded graduation cap’ 05.31.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist An Indigenous high school graduate’s story was picked up by news channels all over the country after school staff removed her graduation cap adorned with traditional Native beading and a feather instead of a tassel. According to KRQE, a local New Mexico news channel, the Farmington High School staff deemed …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Sugarcane’ 08.01.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Smoke Signals Editor Danielle Harrison and Tribal member and Social Media/Digital Journalist Kamiah Koch saw the documentary “Sugarcane” during the Indigenous Media Conference in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Thursday, July 25, before its official theater release in August. “Sugarcane” is a National Geographic documentary investigating the deaths, sexual violence and lasting …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Freeing the Klamath River’ 09.16.2024 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist It seems that all eyes were on the Klamath River last week when the largest dam removal project in United States history was finally complete at the end of August. A video shared by The Seattle Times, published in March, displayed the emotions of the Yurok people as they shared the traumatic history of four dams on their ancestral homelands and the plans they have …

Culture Watchlist: ‘You’re No Indian’ 01.31.2025 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist “It was put in front of all the Natives that everyone would benefit from Indian gaming,” the “ You’re No Indian ” trailer begins. “It hasn’t turned out that way.” A new documentary about Tribal disenrollment released its trailer in the first few days of 2025. Within the two-minute trailer, a brief overview of what disenrollment is and why it is happening in Tribes across …

Culture Watchlist: ‘Blood & Myth’ 08.27.2025 Kamiah Koch Watchlist By Kamiah Koch Social media/digital journalist Note: Smoke Signals would not recommend viewing the “Blood & Myth” documentary around children because it contains mature content and graphic images. During the Indigenous Journalists Association Indigenous Media Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico in August, Smoke Signals staff watched an early screening of Hulu’s new documentary called “Blood & Myth.” This true-crime …

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