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Welcome back to the GGtMC!!!Thie week we are talking about Navajo Joe (1966) directed by Sergio Corbucci and we are sponsored this week by 88 FIlms and we discuss the Blu Ray release of Duel to the Death (1983) directed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung!!!Emails to midnitecinema@gmail.comAdios!!!
Photo: Revillagigedo Island in Alaska where the old-growth forest plan is facing objections from KIC. (Anita Gould / Flickr) Ketchikan Indian Community and two conservation groups are asking a federal court to halt an old-growth timber sale in Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The Shelter Cove sale offers about 4 million board feet of timber as part of the larger South Revilla project near Ketchikan. The groups argue logging would harm subsistence resources, wildlife. and remaining old-growth forest. KIC President Gloria Burns says Indigenous knowledge cannot be treated as an afterthought in decisions about Tribal homelands. The groups are seeking an injunction while the court considers their broader lawsuit challenging the South Revilla project. Bids for the timber sale are scheduled to open October 20. Tesuque Casino in Santa Fe, N.M. (Courtesy Tesuque Casino) Prediction markets are becoming an issue for Native American tribes who argue they are threatening their gaming revenues and thus their ability to fund vital services. As KUNM's Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) reports, New Mexico tribes and state lawmakers are looking at taxing them. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are online platforms where people wager bets on an outcome around future real-world events, like sports or elections, but because of the way they are regulated they do not usually pay taxes to states. Tribal gaming in New Mexico, however, contributed over $151 million to the state's general fund in the last fiscal year. Tribes fear that prediction markets will lead people away from gambling in tribal casinos to online markets, which people can access on their phones while on tribal lands. and tribal officials say that is a violation of the gaming rights they negotiated with the state as sovereign governments. Tribes also use those revenues for things like early education programs, housing, and healthcare. During a meeting of the Indian Affairs Interim Committee last week, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton describes how prediction markets are also targeting minors to bet. Right now, with prediction markets, we know that a 10-year-old standing next to the sheep camp, they can go onto a website and they can wager a bet. Prediction market websites are classified as federal financial exchanges rather than traditional gambling platforms, which allows them to market to people 18 and older. With weak age verification on social media, minors have been reported making wagers. Prediction markets currently exist in a legal gray area and gaming officials want the state to tax them, but lawmakers raised concerns. Those include whether taxes would affect current gaming compacts, how online activity would be tracked on tribal lands, and who would collect revenue. The Mescalero Apache, along with Isleta, Pojoaque, and Sandia pueblos are suing Kalshi. The New Mexico Attorney General also filed suit in June. They are among a number of lawsuits across the country against the platforms. In response, the federal government is suing New Mexico to block the state from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction markets. (Courtesy Native Voters Alliance Nevada) Voting disparities have deep roots for people of color and new research shows New Mexico’s Native voters are likely to face numerous roadblocks at the November ballot box. Roz Brown has more. Native voters in New Mexico face many barriers to voting, including disproportionately high rejections for voter registration and mail-in ballots. The new Native American Rights Fund and Blockwell Consulting report, “Obstacles Persist”, analyzes data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from the 2020, 2022, and 2024 general elections. The report found rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200% in counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population. Senior staff attorney Allison Neswood says the report confirms what Native communities have long known to be true. “Their registration is getting denied, their ballots [are] getting rejected, and all of this really adds up to the systemic disenfranchisement of our people in our own homelands.” The report also outlines how disruptions at the U.S. Postal Service had a significant impact on Native voters. Even as overall mail-in voting numbers declined between 2020 and 2024, the rejection rate of ballots in areas with larger Native populations increased by 134%. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump's executive order, calling on the Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots, a move plaintiffs successfully argued would have severely restricted voting by mail. The report's recommendations include expanding automatic and same-day registration to areas with larger Native populations, and paying poll workers comparable wages. Neswood says more investment is needed for voting infrastructure in Indian Country. “Making sure that our Native communities have polling locations in a reasonable distance from where they live, making sure they have registration opportunities, making sure that they can participate in mail voting.” The study focused on counties with high Native populations, including Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan counties in New Mexico along with Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona. Research by the Brennan Center in 2024 found voters of color are more likely to turn out when they live in jurisdictions where their ethnic group is the majority. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Thursday, October 1, 2026 — Indigenous leaders take on organized attempts to downplay residential school narrative
The UFC recently revealed the bout list for an upcoming fight night in Qatar, with a Kiwi star topping the fight card. Number 7 ranked Light Heavyweight contender Navajo Stirling is slated to take on Jiří Procházka in a clash with major title implications in a division that already has a New Zealand champion in Carlos Ulberg. Navajo joined D'Arcy to discuss. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“The Blue Corn Kitchen” by Alana Yazzie (Diné) gives young reader's a glimpse of the traditional corn-based Navajo foods many Navajo grandmothers have stocked in their kitchens. It’s the latest project from the self-made, Navajo lifestyle and food blogger who also goes by The Fancy Navajo. Howdy Cakes is a new pastry and cake business by Diné culinarian, Liz McKenzie. It’s in partnership with a start-up mini food hall in Albuquerque. And, on the National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, we'll take a look at the negative effects the institutions had on Native foodways. GUESTS Liz McKenzie (Diné), culinarian and cake artist; owner of Howdy Cakes, owner of Prickly Foods, and partner for La Carinderia Alana Yazzie (Diné), creator and owner of the lifestyle and food blog, The Fancy Navajo, and author of “The Blue Corn Kitchen” A-dae Romero-Briones (Cochiti and Kiowa), senior vice president of research and strategy for First Nations Development Institute Break 1 Music: Yacca Banana Song [Two-Step Dance Song] (song) Sweethearts of Navajoland (artist) From the Heart of Diné Nation Traditional Songs of the Navajo (album) Break 2 Music: Suquamish Drum Songs 2015 (song) Sacred Water Canoe Family (artist)
When the sun sets over the Navajo reservation, ancient legends come alive — and those who've seen the skinwalkers will never forget the eyes watching from the shadows.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/FaceToFaceWithFearREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p927m85FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Numerous Reddit users describe their own personal encounters with strange creatures that might be described as werewolves or wendigos… but even further skin deep. (Skinwalkers and Shapeshifters) *** In 1836, an unsuspecting passerby entered the Gardette-LePrete mansion and uncovered a scene of unimaginable horror. (Blood Soaked Gardette LePrete Mansion) *** Is it possible that some classic UFO events were actually hallucinations by people on drugs? (Psychedelic UFO Sightings) *** Ann Hodges, the only person struck by a meteorite who survived it, suffered a nervous breakdown after a media frenzy and a court battle for meteorite ownership. (Struck By a Meteor) *** A mysterious sighting in the night spawned the legend of one of West Virginia's creepiest cryptids. (The Legend of the Flatwoods Monster) *** A Weirdo family member tells the story of a ghost named Matilda. (Matilda)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:01:35.685 = Show Open00:03:27.394 = True Stories of Skinwalkers And Shapeshifters00:45:36.764 = Blood Soaked Gardette-LePrete Mansion ***00:50:42.066 = Psychedelic UFO Sightings01:00:00.794 = Struck By A Meteor ***01:07:47.832 = Legend Of The Flatwoods Monster01:16:07.232 = Matilda ***01:19:25.669 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Skinwalkers and Shapeshifters” by Nida Sea: http://bit.ly/2Xzkaml“Blood Soaked Gardette-LePrete Mansion” by Adam Karlin: http://bit.ly/2Lb3RKI“Psychedelic UFO Sightings” by Nick Redfern: http://bit.ly/2LSsETx“Struck By a Meteor” by Martin Chalakoski: http://bit.ly/2xBwmZ5“The Legend of the Flatwoods Monster” by Orin Grey: http://bit.ly/32jIImG“Matilda” submitted anonymously to WeirdDarkness.com(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: June 2022LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIALWeird Darkness host Darren Marlar covers firsthand skinwalker encounters, a massacre legend from a French Quarter mansion, UFO cases that may trace back to hallucinogens, an Alabama woman struck by a meteorite, West Virginia's Flatwoods Monster, and a ghost named Matilda.It opens with the skinwalker of Navajo tradition, a witch or medicine man said to take an animal's shape by wearing its skin, and with accounts of meeting one: a blood-matted creature with a half-bear, half-human face sitting in the road between Window Rock, Arizona, and Gallup, New Mexico, and a figure that paced a high school basketball bus at 85 miles an hour before dropping to all fours as a coyote. Other sightings range from Bandelier National Monument to the Australian bush, and a New Mexico highway patrol officer's two encounters come from George Knapp and Colm Kelleher's book Hunt for the Skinwalker.From there, it goes to the Gardette-LePrete mansion at 716 Dauphine Street in New Orleans, where legend says a passerby in 1836 followed a trickle of blood inside and found a courtyard strewn with hacked-apart bodies and a man who'd been buried alive, said to be the brother of an Ottoman sultan, though no historical record mentions the prince or the murders.Next, Rich Reynolds of the UFO Conjectures blog points to the CIA's MK-Ultra LSD experiments and suggests that some classic UFO encounters were drug-induced. The cases include contactee Orfeo Angelucci swallowing a pill in a Twentynine Palms, California, diner in December 1954, the 1957 abduction of Antonio Villas Boas in Brazil, and the 1973 Pascagoula, Mississippi, abduction of Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker near the World War II biological-warfare site on Horn Island, in an area where local tales tell of later experiments with the hallucinogen BZ.After that, on November 30th, 1954, a nine-pound meteorite crashed through the ceiling of a rented house in Oak Grove, near Sylacauga, Alabama, bounced off the radio, and struck Ann Hodges on the hip as she napped. A lawsuit from her landlady, Birdie Guy, was settled with the Hodges family paying $500 for the rock, which Ann later gave to the Alabama Museum of Natural History; she suffered a nervous breakdown, split from her husband in 1964, and died in a nursing home in 1972.Then comes West Virginia's Flatwoods Monster, the figure with a round red face, a dark green body, and a hood shaped like the ace of spades that Kathleen May and six children saw on a farm hillside in Flatwoods on September 12th, 1952, after three boys watched something streak across the sky. In 2000, Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry traced it to a meteor, an aircraft beacon, and a barn owl, and Braxton County still celebrates the creature with a museum, monster-shaped chairs, and Flatwoods Days.The episode closes with an anonymous listener's story of Matilda, the ghost in a grandmother's big double house, where a door swung shut in a windowless room, a radio switched on in the night, and police kept answering calls nobody in the house had made. An obituary in an old newspaper in the attic named a woman called Matilda who had died there, and the activity stopped once the grandmother got a dog.
Indie, Hip Hop, Dance, Ambient, RnB, Rap, Techno, Blues Rock, and Powwow from member of the Ojibwe, Oji-Cree, Inuit, Mi'kmaq, Huron-Wendat, Mexica, Navajo, Kickapoo, Apache, Oneida, Kickapoo, Métis, Cree and Navajo Nations. Brought to you by Tunes From Turtle Island and Pantheon Podcasts. If you like the music you hear, go out and buy/stream some of it. :) All these artists need your support. Tracks on this week's show are: Natasha Fisher - Be Something Mattmac & QuestionATL & Damasta - Faded Union Native - Welcome To The North Jens Kleist & Andachan & Nanook - Salliutitani 2026 Luna Red - Heart Bass Adam V & Darksiderz & CGK - Let's Go Party Myles Bullen & Adam Chandelier - murder on my cellphone Rapolitics & Elias Ben Afia & Lace & Tarrak & Ludvig Popp - Repolitics Cypher #9 The Uhmazing - Tezcatl - Mexica Mixtapes Eadsé - My Voice Sage Lacapa - everything2me4u Turquoise Steel & Sage Cornelius - Hitchhiking Blues Thomas X & Distant Feather - Molotov Mackelemore - Hind's Hall NorthernCree - I Love To Powwow Binesi - Humility (Thank You, Miigwetch) Laura Niquay & Mara Tremblay - Kice Manito
I am joined once again by my UPRN brother Don Yazzie. is a respected Navajo researcher, experiencer, and storyteller with a lifelong connection to Native traditions and the unexplained. Through his work, Don shares unique insights into Navajo beliefs, Skinwalker legends, UFO encounters and other mysterious phenomena. On this segment, Don shares many paranormal experiences, such as ghosts, shadow beings, and a fire elemental.Don's Contact Info and Links:YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@AlileeNaalkaahFacebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558299687443
Mindy Tautfest is the Founder and CEO of the modern International UFO Bureau, carrying forward the legacy of the pioneering organization established in 1957. A seasoned investigator, educator, author, and former ICU nurse and disaster-relief responder, Tautfest brings an emphasis on professionalism and investigative standards to UFO research. She has developed training for investigators, authored Dying to Meet Them, and appeared on programs including Ancient Aliens and The Proof Is Out There. In 2023, she spearheaded the recovery of the historic Hayden C. Hewes archives, preserving decades of primary-source UFO records. Today, she leads the International UFO Bureau's efforts in scientific research, investigative systems, historical preservation, and public education.Michele Meiners is a Native American investigator, entrepreneur, and cultural advisor of Navajo, Chippewa, and Pawnee heritage whose work explores the intersection of Indigenous knowledge and unexplained phenomena. Following years of fieldwork in Utah's Uinta Basin, she developed a research partnership with Dr. Jim Segala involving the Multi-Sensor Automated System (MUPAS), designed to collect environmental data associated with reports of anomalous activity. Meiners serves as Vice-Chairman of the International UFO Bureau and is a lead investigator with the Paranormal Rangers alongside former Navajo Rangers Jonathan Dover and Stanley Milford Jr. Her television appearances include Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch, Uncharted Adventures, and Beyond Belief. Across her research and media work, Meiners seeks to bring Indigenous perspectives into the wider investigation of UFOs, UAP, and high-strangeness phenomena.Spaced Out Radio is your nightly source for alternative information, starting at 9pm Pacific, 12am Eastern. We broadcast LIVE every night. #UFO #UAP #AlienDisclosure #UFOSightings #UFOCoverUp #Aliens #SpacedOutRadio #Paranormal #UFOCommunity #disclosure -------------------------------------------------------You can now join the Space Traveler's Club;Join us at https://www.patreon.com/sor_space_travelers_club --------------------------------------------------------Grab Our Latest Spaced Out Radio Gear At:http://spacedoutradio.com/shop It's a great way to support our show!--------------------------------------------------------OUR LINKS:TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/spacedoutradio FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/spacedoutradioshow SPACED OUT RADIO - INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/spacedoutradioshow DAVE SCOTT - INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/davescottsor TWITCH: https://www.twitch.com/spacedoutradioshow WEBSITE: http://www.spacedoutradio.comGUEST IDEAS OR QUESTIONS FOR SOR?Contact Klaus at bookings@spacedoutradio.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/spaced-out-radio--1657874/support.
An Alaska Native corporation’s proposed mining project near Lake Clark National Park is drawing opposition over potential impacts to fish, wildlife, and nearby ecosystems, as Mark Moran reports. Conservation activists are pushing back on a proposed gold mine in Alaska’s interior that threatens wildlife habitat, sensitive ecosystems, and a crucial sector of the state’s economy in the Lake Clark National Park. Contango Silver and Gold, Inc. says the company will create jobs while remaining sensitive to the environment while creating jobs. Contango is working with Alaska Native-owned Cook Inlet Region Incorporated to establish the mine at the headwaters of the Johnson River, a prime spot for commercial and sport fishing, bear watching, salmon runs, and eco-tourism. Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship President David Jenkins contends that the environmental risk is not worth the economic reward, especially when the bulk of the profit from the mine flows to out-of-state investors, including asset management companies like Blackrock and Vanguard. “Why would you risk a 100% Alaskan economic engine that’s sustainable and just keeps providing benefits year after year for something that’s temporary, and most of the economic benefit is likely to go elsewhere outside of the state of Alaska?” (Courtesy Contago) Contango counters that the mine will create 175 jobs for the first three years of the project, but that number will dwindle after peak mine production. Jenkins argues that relatively small job creation is shortsighted, given the thousands of jobs and billions of dollars created by eco-tourism in the area – what Jenkins calls a “stark economic contrast.” Cook Inlet Region Incorporated was granted rights to the 21,000-acre Johnson Tract within the Lake Clark National Park in the 1970s as part of a land agreement. Some members of the Indigenous community contend they would benefit from the project, but Jenkins says short-term profit cannot outweigh the unbalanced economic factors or the scar that Contango would inflict on the Alaska Interior’s ecosystem. “These places are pristine. They’re rare things. You just don’t find that in the Lower 48. You don’t even find it in a lot of places around the world. The biological diversity and abundance is just stunning.” Environmental groups and the Chickaloon Tribal council have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over alleged Clean Water Act violations by granting a permit for the Johnson Tract project, which is still in the permitting process, but scheduled for completion in the spring of 2028. Disclosure: CIRI provides support to Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, the parent company of National Native News. Preserving Diné language and customs is essential, especially for urban Navajos living off-reservation in places like Phoenix, Arizona. And a local Navajo blogger is launching her latest project – a colorful, hand-drawn children's cookbook. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio has more. “Shimá likes to write down Shimásání's recipes so they can be passed on to our young family members.” Alana Yazzie recites a few lines from her new book, “Blue Corn Kitchen”. “When you're writing a children's cookbook like this, there's not as much text, and so I think that was the hardest part, like condensing it so much into a short story, but still having my main points come across.” Like the magic of cooking with family, a timeless message Yazzie tried to convey through words and pictures, even by sketching the characters to resemble her own mother and daughter. “There's these little like corn wafts of sparkly, glittery cornmeal going throughout the book. And it's just so beautiful – like you want to eat it, you want to make it.” Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Tuesday, September 22, 2026 — PBS documentary ‘Knowledge Keepers' explores Native scientific innovations
We're checkin in with Commander of Earth and alien biologist Emery Smith from one of his Instagram live videos. An absolutely blackout Emery speaks a little Navajo for us in his garage (where he may live) and informs us he has an alien craft. He also assures us he is a certified genius, discusses his work on Blind Frog Ranch, and an assortment of other unintelligible goodies. Behold one of Earth's strongest (and drunkest) soldiers tonight on Space Weirdo Friday!
This episode of Friday Night Open Discussion/Open Lines, we will open the zoom line as well as the chat for anyone to call in or pop into the chat to share their stories, experiences, or ask a question about any of the topics the show covers. Also, the main topic of discussion for this episode is, The mysteries of skinwalkers. We will get into the lore of them, what they are, and share videos about them.****************** Talk in the Night links ******************Website: http://talkinthenight.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkintheNight X: https://x.com/TalkintheNight Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkinthenightpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkinthenightpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Talk_in_the_Night********** Show Links **********https://allthatsinteresting.com/skinwalkerhttps://www.tiktok.com/@smitherenes/video/7666163208406781214?q=what%20is%20a%20skinwalker&t=1789267454708https://www.tiktok.com/@ahintoftruth/video/7323461210018450718?q=navajo%20on%20skinwalkers&t=1789268074220https://farandwide.com/s/places-in-america-skinwalker-sightingshttps://thehappinessfxn.com/what-are-skinwalkers/https://www.tiktok.com/@tonyatoutprix/video/7663916553091452174?q=cherokee%20raven%20mocker&t=1789696761707https://www.youtube.com/shorts/msoYcfT_720https://www.tiktok.com/@strangeology/video/7421337838244875563?q=stikini%20folklore&t=1789701966102https://www.tiktok.com/@sora_2_slop/video/7560547550994894098?q=Skinwalker%20caught%20on%20trailcam&t=1789702875641https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zVApg0-0HrEhttps://skinwalker-ranch.com/https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1XKsll2oTIkhttps://www.tiktok.com/@history/video/7356297097429175595?q=skinwalker%20ranch%20show%20clips&t=1789708529541https://www.tiktok.com/@n.news06/video/7607870530867301662?q=skinwalker%20ranch%20show%20clips&t=1789708529541************* Fair use notice ************* FAIR USE NOTICE This video may contain copyrighted material; the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available for the purposes of criticism, comment, review and news reporting which constitute the fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Not withstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, review and news reporting is not an infringement of copyright.
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Photo: Flooding in Chinle on the Navajo Nation prompted evacuations this week. (Courtesy Shawna Ann Claw / Facebook) Three people are dead after they were washed away in a flood on the Navajo Nation just after midnight on Wednesday. As KNAU's Chris Clements reports, several communities are dealing with damage from the recent rainfall. Navajo police responded to reports that two adults and a juvenile were swept away by floodwaters near the Newcomb, New Mexico area shortly after midnight. Search and rescue crews found the three dead after searching the area into the early morning hours. Investigators say they drowned. Several Navajo communities are dealing with flooding, including Chinle and Many Farms. Officials have not released details about any damage or injuries. They urge residents along Highway 191 between mileposts 451 to 454 and other low terrain flood zones to evacuate. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed an emergency declaration in response to the flooding. He said tribal members should use extreme caution around flooded roads and washes, adding that conditions can change quickly. NANA Regional Corporation headquarters in Anchroage, Alaska, where a AFN listening session on subsistence management took place. (Photo: Wonderlane / Flickr) The Alaska Federation of Natives is holding a series of listening sessions focused on the priorities, concerns, and values Alaska Native people want reflected in subsistence management. A session was held Wednesday at the NANA Regional Corporation office building in Anchorage, following earlier meetings in Bethel, Fairbanks, and Nome. Additional sessions are scheduled September 21 in Juneau, September 28 in Ketchikan, and October 1 in Copper Center. AFN says the sessions are intended to hear directly from communities about the challenges facing subsistence users and the principles and values that should guide future changes. People can also submit feedback to AFN online. (Courtesy American Indian College Fund) A new Brookings report says federal cuts and meager philanthropic support are widening long-standing funding gaps across Nebraska and Indian Country, threatening education, health care, infrastructure, and economic development, as Mark Richardson reports. The analysis calls for stable federal funding and sustained investment in Native-led institutions, including Tribal Colleges and Universities. Comments came from Little Priest Tribal College president Manoj Patil from Winnebago, Nebraska, American Indian College Fund president and CEO Cheryl Crazy Bull, and Rob Maxim, the report’s author and a fellow at The Brookings Institution. The pressure is especially sharp in higher education. The Brookings Institution and the American Indian College Fund released the analysis. Patil says pandemic-era investments brought temporary gains to Native colleges, but recent federal actions have reversed much of that momentum. “This constant threat of funding cuts impedes our growth because we are not sure whether to be aggressive in offering new programs or to be careful. That’s the biggest issue we face.” Patil adds there are only 34 TCUs in the U-S and Little Priest is one of only two such institutions in Nebraska. He says every $1.00 invested in TCUs returns $1.60 in tax revenue, benefiting both Native and non-Native communities. American Indian College Fund President Cheryl Crazy Bull says the report provides significant evidence of chronic underfunding by the federal government, despite trust and treaty obligations to Native Americans. “You can’t really have this self-determination in the Native community without being a culturally grounded, well-educated person.” Maxim osays high-profile figures like Amazon co-founder MacKenzie Scott will occasionally step up with notable contributions to Indian Country, but he says it is rare. “It is really hard for Tribal leaders themselves, for Native-serving institutions to make decisions based on the lack of data that’s out there.” Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Thursday, September 17, 2026 — After decades of work, tribes overcome language revitalization barriers
Photo: A “Vote Here” sign outside an election polling place at Woodbury City Hall in Woodbury, Minnesota, during the 2020 general election. (Tony Webster / Wikimedia) Indigenous people continue to face barriers throughout the election process. That is according to a new report that says those challenges can begin well before a voter reaches the ballot box. For the Mountain West News Bureau, Daniel Spaulding has more. The report from the Native American Rights Fund says voting disparities have deep historical roots. NARF analyzed federal data from 2020 through 2024 and found issues ranging from voter registration rejections to difficulties with mail-in ballots. In counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population, rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200%. Allison Neswood (Navajo) is a senior staff attorney at NARF. “Voting is not just one act. It's a series of steps and the report illustrates that Native people are more likely to get hung up every step along the way.” Neswood says addressing those issues will require greater investment in voting infrastructure across Indian Country. The study focused on counties with high Native populations, including Arizona's Apache and Navajo counties – and New Mexico's Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan counties. Young drummers from the Kingikmiut Dance Group wait to perform at the 25th Annual Kingikmiut Dance Festival. (Photo: Margaret Sutherland / KNOM) Dance groups from across the Bering Strait region gathered in Wales, Alaska last weekend for the Kingikmiut Dance Festival. The event marked a quarter century of teaching and sharing songs and dances that leaders say had been absent from some communities for decades. KNOM's Margaret Sutherland traveled to the remote village for this story. On the first night of the Kingikmiut Dance Festival, fog settles over the runway in Wales. Three of the five scheduled visiting groups are grounded: Gambell, Savoonga, and Brevig Mission. But inside the Kingikmiut School gym, the festival began anyway with groups from Wales and Unalakleet. The Kingikmiut Dance Group from Wales takes its place in the center of the gym. Frank Komonaseak, center, dances during the 25th Annual Kingikmiut Dance Festival. (Photo: Margaret Sutherland / KNOM) Drummers sit in a line, holding skin drums in front of them as they sing together while dancers move out front, following the songs. Sixteen-year-old Cain Seetook is one of the younger Kingikmiut drummers. “It heals my hurt and makes me happy. And I don't know. That's just it.” Seetook says he has been drumming since he was about one year old and practices with the Kingikmiut group once or twice a week. His cousin, 15-year-old Frank Komonaseak, is also part of the group, rotating between the drum line and the dance floor. “It feels good to be dancing again. It's an honor to be in this dance group again, to be singing and dancing. I grew up doing it, and I'm proud of who I am, and I'm proud of my cousins because they're all good dancers too.” Komonaseak moved back to Wales about a year ago after living in Anchorage for several years. He says he stopped dancing while he was away. When he returned, he went to practice and began relearning the songs. “It is really sad to not have dancing, because I don't think I can go a week without Eskimo dancing, because that's how much I love it.” Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Wednesday, September 16, 2026 — Native advocates assess barriers to upcoming elections
Robert talks about NFL week 1 regular seson play, and his disdain for watching mediocre hometown team Denver Broncos. Robert talks about dumb travelers and their moment to moment drama. Robert also explores the phenomenon of Navajo tribe people ditching their native names for white people names. Kunta Kinte would be so upset for them.
Photo: Tina Hickman of Choctaw, Mississippi flips through the course catalog for Bay Mills Community College, the tribal college she attended to earn her bachelor's degree. (Elise Catrion Gregg / Gulf States Newsroom) Tribal colleges and universities are higher education institutions chartered by Native American tribes. There are over 30 of them around the country – but none in the Gulf South. Elise Gregg of the Gulf States Newsroom spoke to Indigenous students around the region who do not have a TCU of their own. At the Pearl River Head Start in Choctaw, Mississippi, Tina Hickman is getting ready for things to pick up with the start of the school year. Two years ago, she started her bachelor's in early childhood education. “I only took one class at first, but after that I started taking three classes. My kids, they were about to graduate high school, they’re back to back, so I was like, I need to do this for them.” Unlike her other undergraduate studies, though, this degree was not at one of Mississippi's local community colleges. Hickman attended Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college in Michigan. She says it was not just a chance to finish her bachelor's. Her favorite class, Native American Contributions to Society, gave her a new perspective on her Indigenous heritage. “Taking that class, it just made me feel proud to be Native.” But Hickman had to do the program online. The closest brick and mortar TCU is in Oklahoma and it does not offer four-year programs. Indigenous students in the Gulf South often have to travel even further, to Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas or other Midwest or Western states. Rachel Billiot is part of United Houma Nation, a Louisiana state-recognized tribe. She now wants to go to grad school, ideally at a TCU, to study the environment from an Indigenous perspective on the rights of nature, history of the land, and traditional ecological knowledge. But there are only a few graduate-level, higher education options and none of them are in the South. “And I want to work in my landscape, I have to focus in the southeast. the only place you’re going to get working knowledge is by working within the landscape itself. And usually, the things that are offering work with indigenous populations from an indigenous perspective are either in the southwest or in the Midwest.” Melinda Ben, who directs the tribal scholarship office for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw, says when she speaks to younger students, many are in the same boat as Hickman and Billiot – and simply do not know TCUs are an option when they are leaving high school. But, she says, non-Native institutions can also help. Ben would love for Mississippi State University, where a lot of their tribal members attend, to develop similar curriculum to the University of Oklahoma – another non-TCU with a large Indigenous population. “OU actually has that track. We’ve had a couple of students to graduate with a Native American Studies degree. They even offer Native American Law.” The options are there, but they are just not close to home. Indigenous researchers in Arizona are educating Navajo Tribal members about potential dangers in their water. In many rural communities, Native people rely on wells for drinking water, and the quality of that water can vary. Mark Moran reports. Many Native American communities in the Southwest rely on well water, but its quality and safety can vary. Parts of the Navajo and Hopi reservations were heavily mined for uranium used in nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Northern Arizona University chemist and Navajo Nation citizen Jani Ingram grew up on the reservation. She says it became clear that many abandoned mine sites had not been cleaned up. “There's over 500 abandoned mine sites out on Navajo that are an issue because there really was very little to no cleanup that happened.” Ingram says her goal is to determine pollution levels and educate Tribal members about the importance of safe drinking water. She presented her latest findings to the American Chemical Society late last month. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Tuesday, September 15, 2026 — An Indigenous-led opera retells a historic Tlingit act of resistance
What does it mean to come home—to a place, a culture, or even to yourself?In this encore episode of Stories of Change, I revisit my conversation with Navajo designer and entrepreneur Amy Denet Deal.Amy was adopted as a child and grew up in Indiana, far from her Navajo culture. After a successful career in the fashion industry and with her daughter heading off to college, Amy found herself asking a familiar question: What's next?Her answer was to sell what she had in California and move to New Mexico to reconnect with her Navajo roots.What followed became much more than a move. Amy began learning about her culture and finding ways to use the skills she had developed during her career to serve her community.Through her work with 4KINSHIP and Indigenous Futures 4EVER, Amy has focused on creating opportunities for Native youth and giving back to Navajo Nation. She also shares what returning home has taught her about identity, empathy, healing, and purpose.In this episode, we talk about:Why becoming an empty nester led Amy to ask, “What's next?”Amy's decision to leave California and return to her Navajo homelandsAdoption and reconnectionWhy service became an important part of coming homeHer work creating opportunities for young people on Navajo NationWhat Amy thinks about the next chapter of her lifeAmy says returning home gave her something she had been searching for much of her life: a sense of calm and clarity about where she belongs.And maybe that's the question at the heart of this conversation:What helps you quiet the noise and get clearer about where you belong—and what matters next?Learn more about Amy Denet Deal and her work through 4KINSHIP and Indigenous Futures 4EVER.About Stories of Change: Helping your Navigate What's Next Life doesn't come with a roadmap. We're all figuring it out as we go.I'm Judy Oskam, and on Stories of Change, I talk with people about the changes and unexpected turns that have shaped their lives—and what they've learned along the way.Sometimes someone else's story gives us a little wisdom, a new perspective, or just what we need to help us figure out what's next.Please follow along for real stories, take away a little wisdom and maybe find something that helps you figure out what's next.
Photo: A steel beam recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center visited the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in June. (Courtesy missindianarizona / Instagram) A piece of the World Trade Center made a historic stop on Tribal land in Arizona. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation's “Steel Across America” tour visited the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community near Scottsdale, Arizona this summer. A nearly 17,000-pound steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center's South Tower was displayed at the USS Arizona Memorial Gardens at Salt River. Organizers say it was the tour's first and only stop on sovereign Tribal land as the beam traveled more than 10,000 miles across the country ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The foundation says the stop recognized the longstanding tradition of military service among Native people. The memorial gardens are home to a piece of the USS Arizona, which was destroyed during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. For the first time, steel connected to the 9/11 attacks was displayed there alongside steel from the USS Arizona. Jani Ingram’s students investigate a water source on the Navajo Nation. (Courtesy Jani Ingram) A professor at Northern Arizona University has added new data to a map of safe drinking water on the Navajo Nation. KNAU's Chris Clements reports the map is intended to help tribal communities still struggling with the effects of past uranium mining. Professor Jani Ingram, Navajo Nation, had been driving across the reservation for a while with her student. Their goal? Find and test a remote well that one family was using. “It’s something that needed to be tested because it it really wasn’t great. It had pretty high uranium.” It can be hard for Navajo families to know if the wells near their homes have been contaminated by high uranium levels, which have been linked to health issues like kidney disease and lung cancer. Blue and red dots show water points installed using federal funds from the Indian Health Service CARES Act following the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy Navajo Safe Water) Ingram mapped safe wells using water quality data she and her students collected from years in the field. The map can be found online at the website Navajo Safe Water. And her work is not over: there are tons of tribal wells that have not been tested, something she says she is willing to do at no cost. Indigenous students enrolled within the Chandler Unified School District are featured in a land acknowledgement video from 2025. (Courtesy CUSD) Last year, Indigenous students filmed a brief land acknowledgment for the Chandler Unified School District in Arizona. Following a fierce public debate Wednesday, the governing board voted to play this video at the beginning of all its meetings and future graduation ceremonies. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio has more. “We recognize the past, present, and future inhabitants on this land.” “We will cherish, respect and protect this land for generations to come.” This message is only a minute and 43 seconds long, but it means a lot to Indigenous Parent Committee co-president Monique John. “We went into creating this video with positive intentions for our students and communities – all students Native and non-Native.” Chandler governing board member Kurt Rohrs disagrees. “It has no real purpose in addressing our primary mission of improving academic performance for our students. This statement is an empty performance gesture of wokeness, which really doesn't accomplish anything.” Basha High senior Syndel Preston, who is president of the school's Indigenous student club, suggests otherwise. “I want my Indigenous peers to know that they are seen, that the lands CUSD stands on is theirs as well. I don't believe it is divisive to want that for my community and those like me.” The measure passed in a 3-2 vote. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Friday, September 11, 2026 — How 9/11 reverberates a quarter century later
Send us Fan MailRoute 66 turns 100, and that milestone pulls me back to the ride that quietly rewired my outlook on people. I'm Ron Francis in Loveland, Colorado, and I'm retracing a moment from a solo motorcycle trip that started as a simple plan: follow the towns from “Get Your Kicks On Route 66” and enjoy the open road. What I didn't plan for was a morning in Gallup, New Mexico that hit harder than any mile marker or desert vista.Traveling alone on a motorcycle makes you approachable in a way a big group often isn't. You pull off your helmet, you look like just another human passing through, and conversations find you. Outside a local cafe, I met an older man who looked worn down, and my first reaction was pure ego: I assumed I was the helper and he was the one who needed saving. I offered breakfast, ready to feel generous, and I almost offered the kind of “charity advice” that is really just judgment in nicer packaging.Then he spoke, and everything shifted. With quiet dignity he shared his Navajo heritage, his past as a recovering alcoholic, time in jail, and the chaplain's words that helped him rebuild his life. He talked about honest work, gratitude for each day, and the rare treasure most of us chase without finding: peace of mind. By the time the meal ended, I realized the lesson wasn't about what I could give him. It was about what I needed to learn from him.If you care about solo motorcycle riding, Route 66 history, and the real meaning of kindness, this story is for you. Subscribe, share it with a riding buddy, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts so more riders can find the show. What's a moment when a stranger taught you something you didn't expect?Become a Member: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126578/supporters/newBuy Ron a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/peacelovemotoGear Up at the Shop: https://peacelovemotostore.com
In this episode, we explore how non-physical bewitching can take a serious toll on a person and what happens when you experience something you can't easily explain. We examine the essence of firsthand encounters and the lasting effects these experiences can leave behind. We also probe the Navajo beliefs surrounding ghost sickness and discussing how these spiritual afflictions are understood within the culture and how they can affect people who never asked for them.
Photo: Alaska Native Medical Center in May 2026. (Courtesy Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium) The Indian Health Service officially handed ownership of the state’s biggest tribal hospital, the Alaska Native Medical Center, to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, as Alaska Public Media’s Rachel Cassandra reports. The transfer happened on August 24, according to the consortium. ANTHC CEO Natasha Singh, a Stevens Village tribal citizen from Fairbanks, says the transfer is the result of decades of advocacy. “This marks a historic achievement. It advances tribal self-determination in healthcare, and it’s achieved through the direct advocacy by Alaska tribal leaders.” Singh says, beyond practical implications, the symbolism of ownership is powerful. She says it is rare that tribes truly have self-governance over something so critical to their lives. “You don’t see it in management of our traditional territories or our fish resources. You don’t see it in education and public safety, but you see it in healthcare. Having this ability to control our future is allowing us to address the historical impacts of colonialism.” Singh says the hospital endured decades of underinvestment from the federal government and the transfer will allow the hospital to pursue funding only available to tribally owned facilities. Wilson Justin is a shareholder of the Ahtna Regional Corporation and has advocated for the rights of Indigenous people in the health care system since the 1990s. He says the ownership transfer is momentous. “It’s been a long wait, and I really appreciate the fact that it’s finally occurring. We’ve been waiting for it for half a generation, basically.” He says he hopes that the transfer allows the hospital to strengthen healthcare for Indigenous Alaskans across the state, especially for smaller tribes. The Little Colorado River, a tributary of the Colorado River, flows during the springtime through the Navajo Nation near Cameron, Arizona. (Photo: Gabriel Pietrorazio) The Navajo Nation Council has taken a major step toward protecting one of its most precious water resources. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio has more on the recent measure that formally recognizes the Confluence – where the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers meet – as a sacred site under tribal law. Doing so formally documents what Navajos already know – the spiritual and natural significance of where these two life-giving rivers converge. This information may be used to potentially deter future commercial development by industries like hydropower or dams. Erik Stansfield testified on behalf of the tribe's Historic Preservation Office. “When that comes forward, we can show what impairment of those resources look like.” He likens the Confluence to its council chambers, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “Like the murals in this room, changing that would be an impairment to the sort of historical and cultural importance of this place. It’s very much the same with the plants and animals, water quality and offerings that have been made at that place. We detail that out, and that helps us kind of defend this area.” Ratified Indian Treaty 70. And on this day in 1815, leaders from eight Native Nations signed the Treaty of Spring Wells with the United States near Detroit. The agreement formally restored peace following the War of 1812 and returned certain rights and possessions Native Nations held before the war. The treaty involved the Wyandot, Delaware, Seneca, Shawnee, Miami, Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Tuesday, September 8, 2026 — Life after a wrongful murder conviction for Santiago Ventura Morales
Host Ron Rapaport interviews Dr. Erica Elliott about her transformation from conventional physician to healer, exploring her work with the Navajo, the mind–body connection, and her practice in environmental and functional medicine. The episode covers her personal health crises caused by toxic environments and implants, how she learned to diagnose medical mysteries, criticisms of corporate medicine, and practical steps for deeper healing. Dr. Elliott also discusses her books and upcoming title, The Medical Detective. Sponsors: S.Kaye Klein, author of "The Betrayal of Sanity" Kerisma Vere, author of "The Light Switch Myth" Blue Sky CBD-Click link for 20% off first order https://www.bluesky-cbd.com/pages/_go_?ref=3251:615856&discount=ron Links: kerismavere.com towardswellness.ca https://www.skayeklein.com www.ericaelliottmd.com Blog: musings, memoir and medicine https://itsawrapwithrap.com
“Turquoise Waters” was first published in Women of the Weird West, edited by KC Grifant, in 2026 C/W: guns, misogyny, strong violence Author's note: “I lived in New Mexico for six years where I taught Navajo, Zuni, and Hobi students in the Four Corners region. Growing up a fan of westerns, I longed to know about the other people in the West. You can read more weird… Source
More from the NFL with a former Shiprock Alum making his NFL Debut and receiving support from the Navajo nation at the Cardinals stadium drawing national attention... And the likely first former NFL player makes his move to college as Dae'Quan Wright goes from the Browns to LSU, pending his clearance from waivers.
In this episode, Granddaughter Crow shares insights into Navajo philosophy, the elements, and how indigenous wisdom can help us find harmony and balance in modern life. Kimberly and Granddaughter Crow explore the connection with nature, the spiritual significance of fire, water, earth, and air, and practical ways to incorporate these teachings into daily routines.Chapters00:00 Introduction to the Success Wound02:54 Cultural Influences on Self-Worth05:58 The Archetypes of Success Wound09:02 The Grinder and the Pleaser12:04 The Hider and the Impact of Motherhood15:06 Navigating Ambition and Personal Power18:08 Finding Your North Star19:32 The Journey of Writing and Self-Discovery22:05 Navigating Vulnerability and Intentions in Publishing25:49 The Archetypes of Success and Their Impact29:30 Healing the Success Wound: Emotional and Behavioral Strategies34:41 Finding Wholeness Through Connection and AbundanceSponsors: ANIMA MUNDI OFFER: Anima Mundi is giving Feel Good Podcast listeners there largest discount of the year. It's a great opportunity to treat yourself or a friend to some soothing self-care by going to Anima Mundi Herbals DOT com and use the code: SOLLUNA20 for 20% off your purchase. Again, that's Anima Mundi Herbals, A-N-I-M-A M-U-N-D-I H-E-R-B-A-L-S DOT com and use code: SOLLUNA20 for 20% off your order. USE LINK AnimaMundiHerbals.com and use the code: SOLLUNA20 for 20% off your purchase. LMNTOFFER: Right now, for my listeners LMNT is offering a free sample pack with any LMNT drink mix purchase at DrinkLMNT.com/FEELGOOD. That's 8 single serving packets FREE with any LMNT drink mix purchase. This deal is only available through my link so. Also try the new LMNT Sparkling — a bold, 16-ounce can of sparkling electrolyte water.USE LINK: DrinkLMNT.com/FEELGOODGranddaughter Crow Resources: Book: Hózho: A Navajo Nation Medicine Woman's Exploration of the Four Bodies of Existence for Balance and Self-ReclamationWebsite: granddaughtercrow.comBio: Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) is the author of Hózho, Shamanism and Your Shadow, Wisdom of the Natural World, and Shamanism for Beginners. She holds a doctorate in leadership and is internationally recognized as a medicine woman. Granddaughter Crow comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an award-winning author and a bridge for wisdom and transformation between the Indigenous native worldview and modern Western worldview.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Even after learning her clinical skills at Stanford School of Medicine and becoming a practicing surgeon, Lori Arviso Alvord (Diné) realized she had more to learn about being a healer. She sought out the wisdom of her tribe's cultural healers to help her understand how to treat the whole person. That guidance remains one of the driving factors in her current surgical practice near the Yakama Nation in Washington. Her groundbreaking story as the first female Navajo surgeon is recounted in her memoir, “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear“, and is an inspiration for the generations of prospective Native American medical practitioners.
A single headline can make you feel like you already know the truth, and that's exactly why we slow down and read the fine print. We start with a Santa Fe ICE arrests story that's framed as a crackdown in a “sensitive place,” then we dig into the details the framing leaves out: how serious allegations can fall apart, how “failure by prosecutor” shows up in real cases, and why politicians rush to score points instead of fixing the system that failed victims in the first place.Then we shift to New Mexico politics and campaign reality, including a governor poll that claims a huge gap but uses choices that can distort results. We explain why polling methodology matters (online-only surveys, registered vs likely voters, and inflated undecided numbers) and how candidates can get dragged into the loudest issue in the room, even when state law and the legislature set the limits.From there, we head west to California for two stories that hit free speech and your wallet: the AB 2624 “Nick Shirley Act” concerns about investigative journalism and fraud exposure, plus a new tire regulation that could push 70% of today's tires off the market by 2033. We connect it to the broader energy and cost-of-living squeeze, then zoom out to national politics, shifting approval numbers, and early 2028 matchup polling as trendlines.We close with energy, including New Mexico's role in oil, gas, uranium enrichment, and the case for expanding nuclear power, plus a feel-good New Mexico sports story: Shias Pete and a Navajo milestone with the Dallas Cowboys. If you got value from this, subscribe, share the show, and leave a review. What part of this conversation hit closest to home for you?Website: https://www.nodoubtaboutitpodcast.com/Twitter: @nodoubtpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NoDoubtAboutItPod/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markronchettinm/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D
FBI Director Kash Patel met with tribal law enforcement partners in Albuquerque, New Mexico last week. The visit comes on the heels of the agency launching a new tool to raise public awareness over missing and murdered Indigenous cases. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio has details. It is called Voices Not Forgotten, a webpage featuring select, unsolved crimes across Indian Country where the FBI is seeking the public's help by offering $25,000 minimum rewards. That includes the high-profile homicides in Arizona of Maleeka “Mollie” Boone and Emily Pike. But as Deiandra Reid with the Albuquerque nonprofit Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women notes, this tool is not exhaustive. “You know, I looked at this website that they have, and I didn't see my sister on there.” Twenty-two years ago, Navajo teenager Tiffany Reid went missing while walking to high school in Shiprock, New Mexico. Decades prior, a 9-year-old Navajo girl disappeared from nearby Gallup, New Mexico. “Anthonette Cayedito is on there, and she's [been] missing for about 40 years, so I don't see what the difference is between her case and my sister's case. And a lot of times, our relatives fall through the cracks. The visibility is very important, but it's not the finish line.” The Pinyon Plain Mine, as seen from the air in November 2019, is owned and operated by Energy Fuels Inc., which has extensive Canadian roots: (Photo: Ryan Heinsius / KNAU) There has been a surge of mining companies looking to dig for minerals in the Southwest, including near tribal communities. KNAU's Chris Clements explains why so many of these companies are Canadian. It boils down to this: Canada has a unique tax system that allows mining companies that are exploring projects to pass their costs along to investors. John Steen, a professor at the University of British Columbia, says Canada is home to hundreds of those companies. “They’re hearing that the regulatory regime is, you know, maybe as not as tight as it was, and they’re seeing the U.S. as an attractive place for investment and exploration.” Steen says Canadian firms are responding to President Donald Trump's push to end reliance on China for critical minerals. Take Chakana Copper, which is using a subsidiary to explore mining copper on the Navajo Nation. Or Laramide Resources, which wants to mine uranium near the site of the largest release of radioactive mining material in U-S history. James Hopkins, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, says the reason for that is due in part to the rollback of mining regulations. And that's had consequences. “The growth in uranium mining in the United States is unprecedented. With the increased deregulation, you’re seeing these conflicts arising more and more with respect to tribal lands and tribal resources.” Hopkins says the flurry of mining projects, including some proposed by Canadian companies, is causing pushback from tribes who have long borne the environmental consequences of mining. Opponents of a proposed project to drill for uranium in the southern Black Hills listen to a meeting of the Board of Minerals and Environment at the Joe Foss Building in Pierre, South Dakota, Aug. 20, 2026. (Photo: Meghan O'Brien / South Dakota Searchlight) The South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment took actions affecting two proposed uranium projects in the Black Hills. South Dakota Searchlight's Meghan O'Brien has more. The Dewey-Burdock Project has been on hold for more than a decade. Project leaders want to mine for uranium near Edgemont in the southern Black Hills. Uranium is a metallic, radioactive element used as fuel in nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. Interest in uranium exploration and mining has risen recently. That is in response to nuclear energy's potential to supply electricity for data centers. The project needs federal, state, and local permitting. After being held up by legal challenges, it secured the remaining federal permits it needs and will start seeking state permits. The Board of Minerals and Environment approved a socioeconomic study, which will help the board understand the economic, environmental, and community impacts of the project. The board also continued discussions on a separate request to drill holes in search of uranium near Craven Canyon, in the same general area of the southern Black Hills. A new state law requires the board to have language interpretation services available at hearings for those who need it, such as Lakota speakers. Some of the project opponents are members of Lakota tribes. A lawsuit by a project opponent against the board alleges it violated due process because an interpreter was not available on the first day of a May permit hearing. The lawsuit is ongoing in federal court and the hearing is on hold. Opponents to the drilling project say it could endanger the canyon walls which are lined with ancient Native American petroglyphs. Others say Native American spiritual practices at the site could be disrupted and the drilling could endanger local water sources. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Monday, August 24, 2026 — Native in the Spotlight: Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord
Dallas Cowboys insider Mickey Spagnola breaks down preseason standouts, including Joe Milton III's impressive composure and Barham's immediate defensive impact. They also discuss George Pickens' growth in his second year and the heartwarming support for Petey from the Navajo Nation.
Kappy talks about his late radio parter Billy Ray Smith Jr.'s Celebration of Life over the weekend and the awkward encounter he had with the Spanos Family. Also, Dan Orlavsky has an intersting take about Rams QB Stetson Bennett and where he should play? Kappy has a fascinating story about a player from the Dallas Cowboys of Navajo descent his name is Shiyazh Pete. This guy has got to make the team! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Am'aj Q'in, Dr. Joaquín Lopez-Huertas joins this episode to discuss Indigenous planning. He is a K'iche' scholar from Xelajuj No'j, Iximulew who begins by sharing some of his background in architecture and urban planning. Lopez-Huertas adds insights on identity and global Indigeneity as it relates to spatial relationships with land, pushing beyond a technical field of planning with an Indigenous futurity lens. He challenges dominant frameworks of research and community engagement, amplifying how Indigenous communities already plan and design space for themselves based on values that prioritise well-being. He shares experience with Mayan communities including K'iche'-Maya in Xelajuj No'j, as well as Ixil-Maya in Chajul, in order to highlight alternative governance systems that advocate for land/nature and Indigenous rights. Additionally, this is put into conversation with contexts such as Diné Bikéyah or Navajo Nation and its constitution and land policies. We discuss different theories that appear simultaneously when working with a global Indigenous lens like settler-colonialism and coloniality. This provides an opportunity to expand how we think and govern by considering multiple complex settings, identities, and experiences. Lopez-Huertas offers a rich critical reflection on Indigenous ways of being and knowing in relation to place and community that thrive in the decolonial cracks of re-existence. Notes on Terms: K'iche' means many trees when literally translated, and it is also an ethnolinguistic community, and a highland Maya group that is prominent in Iximulew; Xelajuj N'oj literally means ten wisdom and is derived from ‘xe' meaning ‘under/beneath' and the number ten (lajuj), and the nahual or calendrical totem ‘no'j,' which refers to wisdom, ideas, thought, intelligence. Xelajuj N'oj can be interpreted symbolically as beneath ten wisdom/mountain because it is surrounded by mountainous and volcanic peaks and is temporally located to a sacred calendar date. Alternatively, there are also some other interpretations like the ten thoughts, ten mountains, ten wise-persons, ten domains, or ten guardians/deities. Xela (pronounced Shell-ah) is a common shorthand for the contemporary town that has the colonial name of Quetzaltenango that comes from Nahuatl speaking allies of the Spanish conquistadores. The Pop Wuj also records Xelajuj K'ej as the ancestral name of this place referring to the nahual or calendrical totem of ‘K'ej' or deer, meaning Ten Deer or Under Ten Deer, perhaps in reference to a foundation date; ladino is a Guatemalan term for mestizo or mixed race person but often delineates a class-culture ontological identity rather than a strictly ancestral or racial one; Iximulew is a Maya term for Guatemala that literally translates to corn earth, but can symbolically refer to the land of corn or the world of the corn people; Diné Bikéyah refers to the homeland and territory of Diné or Navajo peoples; Tółikan refers to sweet or pleasant water, which is also a community near the four corners region on Navajo Nation; Alcaldías indigenas refers to the Indigenous mayoralities or mayor offices in Guatemala; Pop Wuj or Popol Vuh is a text that contains a K'iche' version of Maya cosmogony recorded in Latin characters in the 16th century, which means the book/paper of the mat/woven mat/council in the K'iche' language. References: Joaquín Lopez-Huertas – Beyond Refusal: Balancing Colonial Land Ownership in Planning; Planning in Re-existence: Decolonial Cracks and Indigenous Futurities; ‘We don't believe they are dead, they are just resting': Indigenous knowledges as epistemological reclamation in planning. Joaquín Lopez-Huertas, Maggie Low, James Miller, and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett – Indigenous Planning: Cracking Coloniality Through Everyday Practices Audra Simpson – Mohawk Interruptus: Political life across the borders of settler states Adolfo Albán Achinte – Prácticas creativas de re-existencia: más allá del arte… el mundo de lo sensible. Adolfo Albán Achinte – Pedagogías de la re-existencia: Artistas indígenas y afrocolombianos. Catherine E. Walsh – Rising Up, Living On: Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh – On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis.
Photo: Voters at the Black Coal Senior Center say they are voting for tribal candidates and those that support tribal programs like public transportation. (Melodie Edwards / Wyoming Public Radio) Voters in Alaska were not the only ones heading to the polls this week. Primaries were also held Tuesday in Florida and Wyoming. In Wyoming, some voters on the Wind River Reservation told Wyoming Public Radio that transportation to polling places remains an issue. Voters also expressed a desire for more tribal candidates and greater representation of Native culture in schools. Statewide, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, won her party’s nomination for U.S. Senate. In Florida, state Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, scored an upset in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, defeating former national security official Alexander Vindman. Nixon will face Republican Senator Ashley Moody in November. U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Florida, also won his party’s nomination for Florida governor. California voters also went to the polls Tuesday in a special congressional election. Dallas Cowboys rookie Shiyazh Pete. (Courtesy University of Kentucky Athletics) It is NFL preseason and the Arizona Cardinals will take on the Dallas Cowboys this Saturday in Glendale, Ariz. As KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio reports, you might see a Navajo rookie take the field at State Farm Stadium. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is optimistic for this season. “I'm even more excited today than I was when we started camp, that our team is going to be one that, if we can have some things go right for us, avoid some injury. We could really be something.” Among those fighting to make the Cowboys' roster is undrafted free agent Shiyazh Pete, who is believed to be the first Navajo player to sign an NFL contract. “I was quite, quite a specimen. I mean, really, didn't really have no one to kind of relate to in terms of height. I've always been asked questions of, you know, how tall are you? How's the weather up there?” Originally from Montana, the 6-foot-8 300-pound offensive lineman went to Shiprock High School on the Navajo Nation. He then walked on at New Mexico State University before transferring to the University of Kentucky, eventually signing with the Cowboys this spring. “It's a great honor – to put on the star is again surreal. But again, I have to earn that star. I wouldn't say I'm an official Cowboy yet.” But Pete has that chance to prove he belongs on “America's Team”. Robert Nutlouis stands in a completed hogan in Navajo Nation. (Courtesy WGBH Educational Foundation) A new PBS documentary is highlighting Indigenous scientific knowledge developed and passed down over thousands of years. The NOVA special “Knowledge Keepers” explores how Native communities have used observation, experimentation, and relationships with the natural world to develop approaches to science. The film looks at practices ranging from ancient sea farming and celestial navigation in the Arctic to ways of adapting to the harsh climate of the desert Southwest. The documentary also examines efforts by Indigenous knowledge keepers to preserve those practices and how that knowledge could help address challenges today. “Knowledge Keepers” was produced in partnership with Vision Maker Media and directed by Fort Yuma Quechan filmmaker Daniel Golding. It premieres September 23 on PBS. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Friday, August 21, 2026 — Native Hawaiians keeping cultural connections to surfing
Dr. Lynn Smith is a family medicine and urgent care physician whose career has taken him from a 23-year practice in rural Arizona to locum tenens assignments on the Navajo reservation, in Wisconsin, and abroad in New Zealand. Today he practices primarily through medical mission work, serving communities in Honduras, Thailand, Guatemala, Peru, and beyond with organizations like the CHG Healthcare Foundation and International Medical Relief. In this episode, Dr. Smith joins us to share the stories and lessons behind a life of global medicine: what drew him to travel and mission work, how locums helped him grow and prepared him to practice with few resources, and his advice for physicians who feel called to serve abroad.Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe so you don't miss the next one.Inspired by Dr. Smith's story? You can get help funding your next mission trip. Learn more about the CHG Healthcare Foundation, formerly the Making a Difference Foundation.Curious about practicing internationally like Dr. Smith did in New Zealand? Learn more about international locums opportunities.
Backlash over privacy concerns continues to grow across the country against the use of law enforcement surveillance cameras. The automatic license plate readers, led by private security company Flock Safety, are proliferating as officials look to maximize public safety and traffic violation enforcement. The Navajo Nation is now installing hundreds of Flock cameras to support public safety on its 27,000-square-mile reservation that is notoriously difficult to patrol. Navajo leaders say the cameras will both curb traffic infractions and aid criminal investigations. But as the use of cameras grows, so does criticism by the public. Several cities are now cancelling contracts to use the cameras. Some Navajo Nation citizens say the trade-off is too great. We’ll hear what these cameras could mean for tribes hoping to boost public safety. We’ll also hear from University of Arizona professor Stephanie Russo Carroll, a leading authority on Indigenous data sovereignty and policy. Carroll is developing frameworks for how tribal data should be protected. Recently she helped develop a policy that regulates how the public health data of tribes in Arizona is collected, shared, and used on the state level. GUESTS Carl Slater (Diné), Navajo Nation council delegate Brandon Benallie (Diné and Hopi), cybersecurity expert Stephanie Russo Carroll (Native Village of Kluti-Kaah), associate professor at the University of Arizona and co-director of the Indigenous Data Alliance Break 1 Music: Obsidian (song) Red-209 (artist) Break 2 Music: Another Night to Cry (song) Blue Moon Marquee (artist) Scream, Holler, and Howl (album)
For segmen 99, I am joined, once again, by my UPRN brother Don Yazzie. Don is a respected Navajo researcher, experiencer, and storyteller with a lifelong connection to Native traditions and the unexplained. Through his work, Don shares unique insights into Navajo beliefs, Skinwalker legends, UFO encounters, and other mysterious phenomena. On this segment, Don shares many paranormal experiences, such as ghosts, shadow beings, and a fire elemental. Don's Contact Info and Links: YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@AlileeNaalkaah Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558299687443
On today's newscast: Fire crews at Camp Navajo are taking advantage of two small fires to improve forest health and reduce forest fuels, a flash drive with sensitive information about Navajo veterans was found at a laundromat in Farmington, the Flagstaff Police Department is considering adopting a program to use drones as first responders, and more.
Photo: A house floated by floodwaters during ex-Typhoon Halong rests on top of a snowmachine in Tuntutuliak on October 22, 2025. (Gabby Salgado / KYUK) The State of Alaska is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other agencies to collect what are known as Right of Entry forms from households impacted by ex-Typhoon Halong, as KYUK's Evan Erickson reports. The form is required for getting certain types of assistance with winterization and debris removal. It allows authorized recovery agencies to enter properties to inspect, document, and complete recovery work. Completing the form does not guarantee that work will be performed. The form is for households both that may need or have already received assistance in the forms of emergency winterization of storm-damaged homes; temporary weatherproofing or securing openings; moisture control or minor temporary repairs; limited heat or fuel-related stabilization; and/or certain types of private property debris removal. Gallup Indian Medical Center. (Courtesy Gallup Indian Medical Center / Facebook) The Navajo Area Indian Health Services and the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) have signed a memorandum of agreement to support rural health initiatives through data sharing. KUNM's Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) has more. Dr. Laura Parajón, director of the Center for Health Protection at NMDOH, says the coordination between the state and the Navajo Nation is crucial. “It’s important that Navajo Nation has the same access to high-quality data that we do, that they get similar data that allows Navajo Nation themselves to conduct their own analysis, and that they can design their own culturally meaningful public health interventions for themselves.” The agreement is a first step in partnership between state and tribal public health departments to make sharing information easier and filling gaps in data. It will help better identify unmet needs, coordinate care, and monitor outcomes. NMDOH Tribal liaison Janet Johnson (Santa Clara Pueblo) says tribal leaders need to be able to access data instantly, such as a system used to track sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. “And that will help Navajo Area Indian Health Service support their public health surveillance, and give them again that real-time access to see where these outbreaks are occurring, what they need to do and again with our support to be able to better address any issues and concerns that are affecting their populations.” The current agreement does not include any state appropriations. Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, left, Gov. Katie Hobbs, and Hopi Chairman Lamar Keevama sign a memorandum of understanding for coal-impacted communities at the Desert Botanical Garden on August 11, 2026. (Photo: Connor Greenwall) Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) announced an economic agreement Tuesday with northern Arizona tribal leaders. It is meant to bolster the Four Corners region – at a time when the coal industry is in decline. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio has more. The Memorandum of Understanding is between the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe, and the state – all of which are vulnerable to coal mines and power plants shutting down. That includes the Four Corners plant, which could close by 2031. The Navajo-owned company that fuels the aging facility recently announced plans to extend the life of a massive coal mine by more than a century, but with coal giving way to cleaner, more efficient fuels, state, and tribal leaders are coming together to ink a five-year commitment to track closures and promote the wellbeing of coal miners. Map of the several villages in Kaskaskia, Ill. with part of the Mississippi River from 1851 by Thomas Hutchins. On this day in 1803, the Kaskaskia Tribe signed a treaty with the United States at Vincennes in the Indiana Territory. Under the agreement, the Kaskaskia ceded most of their lands in what is now Illinois to the U.S. The treaty provided the tribe with reserved lands, annual payments, and other assistance. The agreement was negotiated for the United States by territorial governor William Henry Harrison, who later became president. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode August 13, 2026 — Pathways Indigenous Arts Festival grows its presence and influence
What are people really encountering on Navajo land—and why do these sightings feel so biologically wrong? In this deep dive, we break down one of the most disturbing pieces of horror lore ever reported: Skinwalkers. This video explores the film lore explained, eyewitness accounts, and the science of horror movies through the lens of creature biology, speculative biology, and real-world physiology. If you've ever wondered how something could mimic human behavior but move like a broken organism, this is your horror movie explained moment. We start by unpacking the origins of Skinwalker lore—what these entities are said to be, how they supposedly transform, and why their behavior aligns with something far more parasitic or neurological than supernatural. From there, we shift into a full horror science breakdown, analyzing how a being could theoretically alter its morphology, voice, and movement patterns. Could extreme neurological disorders, prion-like infections, or invasive parasites explain the unnatural movements and distorted anatomy described in encounters? Thank you for watching Roanoke Tales! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/RoanokeTalesPatreon Roanoke Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/@UCs8lYkna2S6DkcHO9o2008A Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roanokegaming/ Twitter: https://x.com/RoannokeGaming Thank you for watching Roanoke tales Wendigo illustration made by Tania Sanchez-Fortun. Here are the links! Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/tania_sanchezfortun_art/ Cara ; https://cara.app/tsanchezfortun Artstation : https://www.artstation.com/taniasanchezfortun Go and check out his work! This is where monster anatomy analysis and creature biology explained take center stage. We explore how muscle fiber misfiring, joint instability, and altered motor control could create the jerky, inhuman movement patterns witnesses describe. Could something hijack the nervous system to produce mimicry of human speech? What happens if a pathogen rewires vocal cords or brain regions responsible for language? From an evolutionary perspective, we dive into creature evolution and ask: what kind of environmental pressures would favor an organism capable of mimicry and deception at this level? In nature, we already see examples—parasites that control host behavior, animals that mimic sounds, and predators that exploit neurological blind spots. But Skinwalkers take this to an extreme, pushing into territory that feels like a biological impossibility—until you start connecting the dots. #Skinwalker #HorrorScience #CreatureBiology
On this week's interview Paul sits down with Vern Lund, the CEO of Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC). You may have never heard of NTEC, but it is a big deal both in New Mexico's energy sector as well as economically on the Navajo Nation. What is NTEC and what does it do? What is its involvement in the Four Corners Power Plant (a coal power plant) and other current and future energy projects? If you care about energy (and if you have been using your AC this summer, you should) this conversation is worth it!
Photo: The Colorado River near Lees Ferry, Colo. in May 2026. (Chris Clements / KNAU) The states that share the Colorado River have a new federal framework in place for managing the embattled waterway, but as KNAU's Chris Clements reports, the impact of the U.S. government’s strategy on tribal nations is less clear. The new framework from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation could result in steep cuts to the Central Arizona Project, a delivery system for Colorado River water. That worries some tribal leaders like Orlando Carroll, chairman of the White Mountain Apache Tribe in eastern Arizona. “We definitely would be concerned of any cutbacks that are generated.” Under a federal settlement, Carroll's tribe can lease its share of water from the river, but at least his tribe's water rights have been spelled out. Other tribes, like the Navajo, Hopi, and San Juan Southern Paiute are watching the U.S. put out a Colorado River management plan for the states, while their own water rights in Arizona remain unquantified. Brenda Jesus is a Navajo Nation council delegate. “I just don’t understand that they’ve gotten their water rights decree, yet in the year 2026, the Navajo Nation doesn’t have any.” A settlement to give the Navajo Nation its water rights in Arizona is still under consideration in Congress. Golden king crab season runs from August 1, 2026 to April 30, 2027. (Courtesy Ethan Nichols / Alaska Department of Fish and Game Golden king crab season opened on Saturday in the Aleutian Islands. This year, the total allowable catch for the region is 13% higher than it was last season, as Katie Reuther reports from KUCB. Ethan Nichols is an Area Management Biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) based in Dutch Harbor. He says this reflects a sizable increase for the western area of the fishery, at over a million and a half pounds this season. “The quota in the east this year is a very slight decrease from last season, it’s down 4%. In the western area, it's a large increase this year. It’s a 79% increase.” Due to the size of the golden king crab fishery, it is split into two different management areas: one east of Atka and the other to the west, each with their own harvest levels. “The east has more fishable depths or more fishable ground, whereas you get further west and much smaller islands that drop off quicker.” That means better fishing in the eastern area. Even with a slight decrease in allowable catch this year, the eastern area's limit is still more than double that of the west's limit at over three million pounds. Nichols says he is optimistic about the upcoming season. “I think it's a really unique crab fishery, just where the fishing occurs, it being a deep water fishery from a select few vessels, and I'm excited about the upcoming season.” Just four vessels are expected to fish for golden king crab this season. The fishery was worth $29.5 million at the dock last year, according to preliminary figures from ADFG. This year's season ends next April. The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) meets for a business meeting in June 2026. (Courtesy ACHP / Facebook) Tribal historic preservation leaders are voicing concerns over proposed changes to the federal review process for projects that could affect sacred sites and cultural resources. Last month, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation voted to advance a proposed rule revising Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, a key law requiring federal agencies to consider impacts on historic properties and consult with Tribal Nations. The National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers says the proposal would weaken tribal consultation, narrow protections for places of religious and cultural significance, and give federal agencies greater authority over the review process. The proposal now heads to federal review before it is published for public comment. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Wednesday, August 5, 2026 — Tribes condemn federal Colorado River water use plan
Alien abductions, cryptid creatures, secret government programs, portals to other worlds, cattle mutilations – the San Luis Valley may be the strangest and most terrifying place you've never heard of.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CattleMutilationsFEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: We've had several episodes before about mysterious locations that are host to strange, paranormal activity. Skinwalker Ranch, for example, or The Bennington Triangle, or even the harsh terrain of Alaska. Perhaps one of the locations that appears to persistently slip under the radar is the San Luis Valley in Colorado. The region is home to very much the same variety of paranormal activity as other apparent hot spots. UFO sightings here are in abundance, for example. As are cases of cattle mutilation, sightings of strange creatures, and even alien abduction. In short, the San Luis Valley could be one of the most interesting locations in the world.LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“The Paranormal, Extraterrestrial, and Otherworldly Explanations for Cattle Mutilations” by Marcus Lowth for UFOInsight.com: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/66a64hu5, https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/vhykeezp(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: March 2022Weird Darkness devotes a full episode to Colorado's San Luis Valley, moving from Native American creation myths through the 1967 mutilation of a horse named Lady, decades of Bigfoot encounters, and a global run of cattle mutilation cases tied to UFO sightings, secret government programs, and alien abduction.It opens with the valley's own history: the region passed from Mexican to American territory after the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War, and archaeological evidence places human habitation there for roughly 7,000 years across close to a dozen Native American tribes. Several of those tribes describe the surrounding peaks as the Sipapu, a place of creation and emergence, and the Navajo specifically name the Blanca Massif as the point where "star people" enter this world aboard what their oral tradition calls flying seed pods, a phrase researchers have since compared to modern disc-shaped UFO reports. The same traditions include legends of shapeshifting beasts roaming the valley, stories some investigators now link to the Bigfoot sightings still reported there.From there the episode turns to the case that first brought cattle mutilation into national headlines: the September 27, 1967 death of a three-year-old Appaloosa mare named Lady, discovered by Harry King and his mother, Agnes, on land belonging to his sister, Nellie Lewis. The horse's head had been stripped completely to the bone with surgically precise cuts, no blood was found anywhere at the scene despite the wounds, and a strong chemical odor hung in the air near the body. Investigators also noted that the horse's own tracks stopped abruptly about 100 feet from where she was found, that scorch marks including a distinct circular pattern marked the ground nearby, and that Agnes King recalled an unidentified object flying over her house in the days before the discovery. The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization investigated, and pathologist Dr. John Altshuler, examining the remains, found the heart, lungs, thyroid, and abdominal organs removed with medical precision and the body completely drained of blood. Alamosa County Sheriff Ben Phillips attributed the death to a lightning strike without visiting the site, and the Condon Committee later reported no evidence of abnormal causes, addressing neither the missing blood nor the burns. Press coverage mistakenly named the horse Snippy, after her sire, and the name stuck permanently. Researcher Christopher O'Brien would go on to document more than 200 further mutilation reports in the San Luis Valley alone, estimating the true, unreported total closer to 1,000.Next comes a survey of the valley's stranger residents, starting with a 1992 sighting known regionally as the Woman in Red, in which a driver picked up a hitchhiking woman who vanished after he noticed she had goat-like legs and hooves. The same stretch of the episode covers a wave of Bigfoot encounters that struck a seven-square-mile radius between late December 1993 and early January 1994, including a December 31 sighting with footprint tracks clear enough to show toenail impressions and partially captured on police video, plus a 2000 report from two ATV riders near Blanca Peak who tracked a seven-foot, brown-haired creature before losing it in the trees. Christopher O'Brien's files also record a white buffalo that appeared and then vanished without a trace near Winchell Lake in the early 1980s, a 1993 wave of legless, slug-like creatures locals call prairie dragons, and a report of an out-of-place platypus. The segment also revisits the Old Scratch legend, a century-old story of a well-dressed stranger who appears in a cantina during Lent and reveals claws, cloven hooves, and a tail before fleeing when confronted, last reported in 1984, then covers mid-1960s witness Robert Whitting, who claimed a craft pulled alongside his car and telepathically warned him of a dead black dog in the road ahead. It closes at the modern UFO Watchtower, a platform built for its 360-degree view of the valley that still draws UFO sightings and researchers year-round.The episode then widens its scope to cattle mutilation as a global phenomenon, opening with a 1606 case recorded in the court records of England's King James I describing sheep found with only their tallow and inner organs removed, and a Texas horse whose entire nervous system was surgically extracted in the same territory that saw a wave of sheep mutilations in 2013. It cites an FBI report from the late 1970s tallying roughly 8,000 mutilations in Colorado alone and lays out the pattern researchers keep finding: animals drained completely of blood, organs removed with surgical precision, unusual chemical readings in tissue samples, and a consistent absence of scavengers at the scene. From there it crosses to Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, England, where in 1985 a father and son watched a silent, triangular craft with three underside lights hover over a field, followed two days later by a duck hunter who saw a similar object stop over grazing cattle and fire light beams in his direction as he approached.A string of British cases follows, beginning with the 2010 mutilations of sheep near Shrewsbury, England, where animals were found with faces skillfully stripped of flesh and drilled holes where their brains had been removed, witnessed in part by a 16-person investigative team who reported both UFOs and apparent laser-style attacks on the flock in March of that year. It moves next to a 2011-2012 wave of mutilated horses across the United Kingdom, tentatively tied by some researchers to an equine herpesvirus type 1 outbreak rather than to ritual dates such as St. Winebald Day, then to Wales, where the Animal Pathology Field Unit spent twelve years, from 2001 to 2013, investigating sheep mutilations and, through investigator Phil Hoyle, concluded extraterrestrial involvement was the most likely explanation. The segment also returns to the 1977 discovery of 15 mutilated wild ponies in Cherry Brook Valley, Dartmoor, found by Alan Hicks, a case later investigated by Jonathan Downes of the Center for Fortean Zoology, who reported suspicious interference and elaborate hoax calls resembling Men in Black activity. It ends with Rob Lea's account, given to researcher Nick Redfern, of a Bristol-based group he called the Cult of the Moon Beast, allegedly performing animal sacrifices in Newport, England since the late 1980s to summon entities from a coexisting dimension on behalf of wealthy patrons.Back in North America, the episode covers Manuel Sanchez's discovery of a fourth mutilated calf on his Colorado ranch in December 2009 and Tom Miller's similar March 2009 find near Trinidad, Colorado, both missing tongues, udders, and eyes with no blood or tracks at the scene. It continues with Kit Metzger's decades of mutilations at the Flying M Ranch in Arizona, dating back to the late 1970s and clustering between June and October, and with the 1978 case of Manuel Gomez's bull in Dulce, New Mexico, examined by officer Gabriel Valdez, whose lab tests found the heart and liver reduced to a mushy, peanut-butter texture with abnormal zinc, phosphorus, and potassium levels and no copper at all. The segment covers a summer of 1990 mutilations on Richard Fazio's land in Vancouver, Washington, which Oregon State University matched to laser-type electrosurgical injury, alongside Christopher O'Brien's own assessment that mutilations are "more complicated than aliens" and more likely tied to covert environmental monitoring. It closes with 2013 sheep mutilations in Texas tha
Renowned chef Nephi Craig (White Mountain Apache, Navajo) admits he hid his alcoholism fairly well as he was making a name for himself as a Native chef throughout the 2000s. His memoir, “Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef“, details his arduous recovery and how food and the kitchen helped him figure out his purpose and path to healing. In the debut children’s novel by Christine Hartman Derr (Cherokee), “Raven, Rising“, baking was a favorite pastime for a young Cherokee girl until she is struck with sadness and anxiety at the thought of baking and the smell of ingredients like cinnamon, bread, and chocolate. She learns to cope with loss and works to make her way back to the kitchen. Chef Candace Stock (Ho-Chunk) is the executive chef of Salt + Scoria, a restaurant in the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota. We'll talk with her about bringing Indigenous ingredients and flavors to the menu. Break 1 Music: With My Son (song) Vincent Craig (artist) Break 2 Music: Show the People (song) Bear Creek (artist) On The Move – Powwow Songs Recorded Live at Apache Gold
They named it after something the people who lived here first refuse to say out loud. Deep in Utah's Uintah Basin sits Skinwalker Ranch — 512 acres of high desert that has terrified ranchers, researchers, and one very unlucky family for generations. But forget the lights in the sky. Tonight, host Carman Carrion takes you past the barbed wire to the older, darker legend the ranch is actually named for: the shapeshifter that wears skins, walks the fence line on all fours, and calls to you in a voice you love. From the Sherman family's bloodless cattle mutilations and the wolf that took bullets and simply walked away, to the Navajo and Ute traditions that warned people off this ground long before any camera arrived — this is the Skinwalker Ranch story stripped of the spaceships and handed back to the dark where it belongs. Then stay for an original tale of a boy hired to watch a fence he was told never to cross… and the thing that followed him home. The rule out here is simple. If the dark calls your name in a voice you trust — you don't answer.
After a mission trip to a Navajo reservation, Brad Hutchcraft felt God calling him to minister to Native American youth so they could experience the hope that can only be found in Christ. Today, Brad is the director of On Eagles' Wings, a ministry that shares the love of Jesus Christ with Native American youth across the United States and Canada. Listen as Brad shares how God changed the course of his life, how these young believers are reaching their own communities with the Gospel, and why Brad knows that “as long as there's breath, there is hope.” Learn more about Brad's ministry On Eagles' Wings. Connect with us through email at gps@billygraham.org or on Facebook at Billy Graham Radio.If you'd like to know more about beginning a relationship with Jesus Christ, or deepening the faith you already have, visit FindPeacewithGod.net. If you'd like to pray with someone, call our Billy Graham 24/7 Prayer Line at 855-255-7729.
Photo: Kaiser Canyon fire in Washington, July 2026. (Courtesy Inciweb / USFS via National Interagency Fire Center / Facebook) Wildfires continue to burn across the U.S, including many areas of Indian Country. In Washington state, the largest fire is the Kaiser Canyon Fire which is burning through the Colville Indian Reservation. As of late Tuesday, the fire surpassed 126,000 acres and was 16% contained. In an update Tuesday morning, Keith Kelley, operations section chief for Northern Rockies Unit 2, shared the day's plan of attack against the Kaiser Canyon Fire. More than 1,000 personnel are committed to the effort. “And we do have resources looking at some additional containment lines, trying to find places to what we call pinch in the fire, to keep it from spreading. So we’re kind of like checking it up. So we’ll put some dozer lines in, and the fire will slow its progression, and then eventually it will it will kind of continue to move. But it gives us an opportunity to put some dozer lines and put in some containment lines so we can stop that progression as it moves to the north. So certainly have resources in there. We’ll continue to do that.” The Kaiser Canyon Fire started July 16 when a lightning strike hit the Nespelem area on the Colville reservation. Meanwhile, more than a million acres have burned in Oregon. The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs has closed its tribal government due to Level Three evacuations caused by the Bench Fire, which at last check had burned more than 45,000 acres. The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation have set up a Wildfire Recovery Fund for volunteers and supplies to help those affected by the fires. Chris Deschene, left, and Emily Ellison are the two vice-presidential candidates in the upcoming 2026 Navajo Nation election. (Courtesy U.S. Department of Energy / Emily Ellison for Navajo President 2026 / Facebook) Following the Navajo Nation presidential primary last week, the top vote-getters have named their vice presidential picks. KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio has details. Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley was first to announce her ticket in Window Rock, Ariz. “Excited to share this moment with you. I know people online were very anxious.” She picked former Arizona Democratic state lawmaker Chris Deschene. “Throughout my career, I know what it's like to be an underdog.” In 2014, the Marine Corps vet vied for the very seat Curley is now seeking, but after placing second in that primary, Deschene was disqualified, in part, because of Curley's November opponent – Farmington attorney Justin Jones. “This is where I grew up.” As for Jones, he returned to Rock Point, Ariz. to name his running mate. Emily Ellison is in charge of the Gallup nonprofit Battered Families Services. “I want to thank the committee for this opportunity to serve our Navajo people.” Billy Kirkland, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, visits Choctow Central High School, one of several Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-funded schools with a graduation rate above 90%. (Courtesy BIE / Facebook) The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) says 21 of the high schools they fund achieved graduation rates of 90% or greater in 2025, in what the agency calls an “unprecedented milestone”, reflecting their commitment to student achievement, college and career readiness, and workforce development. The 21 schools include Kickapoo Nation School, Santa Fe Indian School, Shoshone-Bannock School, Navajo Preparatory School, and Choctaw Central High School. The BIE's overall graduation rate reached 79%, the highest in its history. The BIE is aiming for a rate of 91% by May 2030. The Associated Press reports that, beginning in 2018, the BIE began standardizing data collection methods, which has helped improve data accuracy. While Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Billy Kirkland (Navajo) said that these gains reflect the Trump administration's commitment to Native American students, there are concerns that the administration's changes to the BIE — including the planned dissolving of the U.S. Department of Education and further fallout from DOGE cuts — could undermine progress and prevent struggling schools from improving students' performance. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Wednesday, July 29, 2026 – Southeast Alaska tribes closer to land designation more than a half century after being locked out
A coalition of rural Alaska Native villages is launching an initiative to boost veterinary care as a way to improve public health. They aim to cut down on the increasing number of feral dogs that pose a risk to residents by offering better spay and neuter services. They also hope a vaccination program can lower the spread of rabies. Alaska Native Rural Veterinary Inc. and the Alaska Federation of Natives are moving ahead after federal legislation stalled in Congress. We’ll talk with those called to bring veterinary care to rural communities — with or without government support — to keep animals and people safe. Robert Mirabel in the film. “Road to Everywhere.” (Photo: courtesy Driven To Films) We also talk with acclaimed musician and actor Robert Mirabal about his role in the movie, “Road to Everywhere“. Mirabal is performing at a screening of the film in Albuquerque, N.M. GUESTS Mike Williams Sr. (Yupiaq), tribal chief of the Akiak Native Community Adrianna Nicolay (Diné), volunteer with Rez Vet Angie Fitch, executive director and co-founder of Alaska Native Rural Veterinary Inc. Robert Mirabal (Taos Pueblo), musician and actor Break 1 Music: Raising Goats Song [Skip Dance Song] (song) Sweethearts of Navajoland (artist) From the Heart of Diné Nation Traditional Songs of the Navajo (album) Break 2 Music: Show the People (song) Bear Creek (artist) On The Move – Powwow Songs Recorded Live at Apache Gold
This episode brings together an incredible collection of firsthand Bigfoot encounters from across North America. You'll hear reports from the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, the Navajo Reservation, the forests of Alabama, the mountains of Western North Carolina, the hills of Ohio, and the Pacific Northwest near Monroe, Washington.Witnesses describe terrifying screams in the woods, massive footprints, mysterious tree knocks, rocks and pine cones thrown from unseen sources, overwhelming odors, nighttime campsite disturbances, and close visual encounters with towering hairy figures. One guest shares a childhood experience that stayed with them for decades. Another recounts a frightening encounter that sent an entire group running for safety. Others describe years of unexplained activity around remote homes deep in the mountains.Every story is told directly by the people who experienced it. If you've ever wondered how widespread Bigfoot encounters really are, this episode offers a fascinating look at reports from some of the most active regions in North America.
Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by its “passionate prose” (James F. Brooks), historian Linford Fisher demonstrates how the enslavement of Indigenous people began in the years just after 1492, ensnaring an estimated three to six million Natives throughout the Americas. Although largely erased from the public consciousness, Native enslavement continued for centuries to become a colossal phenomenon that affected nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America alone, revealing the shocking truth that American colonizers enslaved Natives in roughly the same numbers as they imported enslaved Africans.From Virginia to California, from New England to Barbados, Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History (Liveright, 2026) traces the history of Indigenous enslavement and land dispossession, detailing how colonizers captured Natives and often deliberately mislabeled them as Black slaves to avoid detection. While the American Revolution pealed the bells of freedom for colonists, it paved a larcenous trail of westward expansion that subsequently plundered Indigenous land and stole the labor of Natives from nations like the Cherokee, Navajo, Nisean, and many others. “This double theft,” Fisher writes, “was central to the origins, growth, and eventual success of the English colonies and the United States—not just initially but throughout all of American history.”In this expansive narrative, Fisher weaves together accounts of major episodes in American history including early colonization, the American Revolution, and the Civil War with lesser-known stories of Native enslavement and land loss. Fisher upends conventional histories about the nature of American slavery, revealing enslaved Natives in places we have overlooked, including southern antebellum plantations and the nineteenth-century American West. After Congress outlawed Native slavery in 1867, Americans forced Indigenous children into boarding schools and white homes, where they labored under forced assimilation. This practice was not reformed until the latter twentieth century, when Native nations finally secured increasing rights and self-determination.Nearly fifteen years in the making, this magisterial volume not only uncovers a five-century genocidal history but also illuminates the myriad ways Native Americans have fought for their sovereignty and maintained community. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Stealing America emerges as a saga of both persistent colonialism and Indigenous resilience, one that reframes American history at its core. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Between 1863 and 1866, more than 10,000 Navajo (Diné) were forcibly removed from their lands by the U.S. Military and forced to marched hundreds of miles into present day New Mexico. Many died of starvation and exposure on the march and while in exile. Don is joined by Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale, professor and chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and author of the books Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, as well as The Long Walk: The Forced Exile of the Navajo.Edited by Tim Arstall. Produced by Hannah Feodorov. Senior Producer is Freddy Chick.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. All music from Epidemic Sounds.American History Hit is a History Hit podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Photo: “Navajo” Bob Sandoval announces the results of the 2025 Navajo Nation presidential primary (Courtesy Crystalyne Curley for Navajo Nation President / Facebook) Tuesday was primary Election Day not only in Arizona, but across the Navajo Nation, which includes Utah and New Mexico. And as KJZZ's Gabriel Pietrorazio reports, incumbent President Buu Nygren will not be moving on to the general. Before midnight, the tribal radio station KTNN – known in these parts as the “Voice of the Navajo Nation” – called the 16-candidate race. Here is host “Navajo Bob” Sandoval reading the unofficial score from the 110 polling places. “Here we go, Justin Jones – 15,039. Crystalyne Curley – 8,424. Buu Nygren – 7,410.” Farmington attorney Justin Jones came in third behind Buu Nygren during the 2022 primary. Justin Jones speaks during his 2026 primary watch party in Window Rock, Ariz. (Courtesy Justin Jones for Navajo Nation President / Facebook) This time, Jones and sitting Navajo Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley beat out incumbent President Nygren, who has faced ethics violations and allegations of corruption. Now, Jones and Curley will pick their VP running mates before November. If elected, Curley would be the first Diné female president. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) makes remarks regarding her bill that passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on July 17 2026. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced last week that her bill allowing five Alaska Native communities in Southeast Alaska to receive land entitlements passed out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The legislation, called The Alaska Native Landless Equity Act, would allow Petersburg, Wrangell, Haines, Ketchikan, and Tenakee to form Alaska Native corporations and each receive about 23,000 acres of federal land, as KFSK's Baiz Hoen reports. Those communities were excluded from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) when it became law over 50 years ago. ANCSA transferred 44 million acres of land to more than 200 regional, village, and urban corporations to resolve land claims throughout Alaska. The Landless movement is not without controversy. ANCSA mandated the newly recognized Native corporations to make a profit. Because of this, some who oppose Sen. Murkowski's bill argue that it would privatize 115,000 acres of land in the Tongass National Forest. Murkowski spoke directly to the opposition in her committee remarks last week. She addressed concerns about environmental conservation, but said “this should not be the controversial measure it has historically been viewed as.” “There are no better stewards of our Alaska lands than the people who have lived on them for thousands of years.” The Alaska delegation has been introducing landless legislation since the early 1990s without success. In 2023, a landless bill introduced by Murkowski cleared committee for the first time. Murkowski also noted during remarks that a companion measure by U.S. Rep. Nick Begich (R-AK) passed in the House of Representatives last month — with no recorded opposition. Rep. Begich's bill is the first Landless bill to clear the House. “ And I think there’s good reason for that because it comes back to the inequity that we have seen, uh, and in an effort to do right by the Alaska Native peoples who were excluded so many decades ago.” Murkowski's legislation now heads to the Senate floor for consideration. Fort Harney in Oregon in 1872. On this day in 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes signed an executive order canceling Oregon’s Fort Harney Military Reservation and placing those lands under the existing Malheur Indian Reservation. The order expanded the reservation established in 1872 for the Northern Paiute and Snake peoples as federal policies continued reshaping Native homelands. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Thursday, July 23, 2026 – First Nations in Canada wary of new bill addressing longstanding water issues
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