Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Media
Indigenous Peoples in the Media

Aboriginal Media Program - First Nations Technical Institute

"This three-year post-secondary program leads to either a diploma in print and broadcast journalism. . . delivered through 15 two-week on-site sessions and industry work placements over three years. . . the training is rooted in Aboriginal learning styles and culture. The facilitators are industry media professionals."

Aboriginal Multi-Media Society

The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society is a non-profit society and publishes Windspeaker, Alberta Sweetgrass, Saskatchewan Sage and Raven's Eye Native newspapers. AMMSA owns and operates a 24 hour Aboriginal radio station - CFWE-FM

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

"Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, APTN offers an unprecedented opportunity for Aboriginal producers, directors, actors, writers and media professionals to create innovative, reflective and relevant programming for Canadian viewers. 70% of APTN programming originates in Canada, with 60% of the programs broadcast in English, 15% in French and 25% in a variety of Aboriginal languages."

Aboriginal Language and Broadcasting Report (PDF)

November 26, 2004 report for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network by Jennifer David, Debwe Communications Inc.

Aboriginal Voices Radio

Canadian radio station with online streaming audio

Aboriginal Voices Magazine

News and perspectives about the lives and experiences of Native Peoples in North America. Look in the archives for full text of past issues.

The Aboriginal Youth Network

An "online resource created by yourth for youth" that maintains ongoing chats, links to streaming audio radio broadcasts, aboriginal news from the Canada, Australia, the US, and other places around the world. AYN hosts several other Web sites in the Cyberskins section including: Youth Driven, Redwire Magazine, Environmental Youth Alliance, Daybi, and Redhiphop.

AIROS American Indian Radio on Satellite

"providing you with authentic Native American music, news, entertainment, interviews and discussions of the current issues in Indian Country and the world. AIROS is an international distributor of Native American programming through the Public Radio Satellite System."

The American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network

Listen to NAPT's AIROS programming via Real Audio -- 24 hours a day! Now available through WebTV. AlterNative Voices from KUVO in Denver, Differnet Drums from KBBI in Homer Alaska, Earthsongs, Native America Calling distributed by NPR, Native Sounds-Native Voices, a music service and Voices from the Circle from Milwaukee Public Schools' WYMS-FM.

American Native Press Archives

Housed at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the Archive is engaged in "collecting and archiving the products of the Native press and materials related to Native press history, collecting and documenting the works of Native writers, and constructing bibliographic guides to Native writing and publishing. It stands today as one of the world's largest repositories of Native thought." Offerings online include a feature on Sequoyah, a small collection of features from the archive and a searchable bibliography.

Awaye! and ABC TV's Indigenous programs unit

(Duration: 55 min, filesize: 23 MB, Updated weekly )
Awaye! means 'listen up' in the Arrernte language of central Australia. It is produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. It covers music (from the yidaki and gumleaf to techno), arts, spirituality, politics, dance, literature and theatre. Awaye! is also a showcase for features and documentaries produced by indigenous people overseas, including Maori, Polynesian, native American and South African broadcasters.
http://abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/aye.xml

Bay Native Circle Archives - KPFA, Berkeley CA

A weekly radio program broadcast live Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Available also as a Podcast and archives of older programs available here.

Club Red with Charlie Hill

" 'Club Red', starring Oneida comedian Charlie Hill, is a comedy show unlike any other on public radio. It's a fast-paced mix of skits, running gags, guest musicians and lots of Charlie being himself. Playing on public radio stations that dare, somewhere." Audio clips.

DreamTime to PrimeTime - Indigenous Cultural Studies

This is a sub-site of The Culture and Communication Reading Room, Murdoch University, Australia. Currently it consists of files relating to Aboriginal and Islander questions and to indigenous issues internationally.

First Perspective

Aboriginal News and Events from Canada

Ha'i Mo'olelo - Hawaiian Storyteller

'Uncle Charlie', a renowned Hawaiian Cultural Specialist on Maui, shares stories about Hawaiian history, people, culture, sovereignty and land; features an interactive discussion area.

Honoring Mother Earth - Indigenous Voices

"This program presents the situations facing native peoples throughout the world with Native News, Interviews, Muis Commentaries and Investigative Reports and serves to protect Sacred Mother Earth and the traditional cultural life-ways of indigenous peoples. Producer: Wolf Mountain Radio"

Index of Native American Media Resources on the Internet

An impressive list of newspapers, magazines and journals, online media, documentary photoghraphy axhibits and broadcasting links.

Indigenous Issues

Supported by the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication at Murdoch University, Western Australia. This site is intended to provide a launching pad for anyone interested in the study of social, cultural and political issues relating to indigenous peoples.

Indian Country Today Online

Indian Country Today, a weekly newspaper that covers national news and events, is currently distributed in all fifty states and in seventeen foreign countries.

Indian Voices Program

Airs live on Sunday 3 p.m. MST (1 AST, 2 PST, 4 CST, 5 EST)

KILI Radio

The largest Indian-owned and operated public radio station in the US. KILI means "cool" or "awesome" in the Lakota language. Broadcasts to the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Reservations as well as Rapid City, SD.

KNBA

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation (KBC) is a nonprofit, Alaska Native governed and operated media center located in Anchorage, Alaska. "Koahnic" is an Athabascan word in the Ahtna dialect meaning "live air." Audio stream with Windows Media Player (Mac & WIN) and Native Word of the Day in Mp3 format.

Koori Mail

Australia's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Newspaper

Koori Radio

Aboriginal radio from Sydney

KUNM-FM

Public Radio from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Native News and other native programming can be heard via the free RealPlayer, not all day, everyday, but throughout the broadcast schedule. Streams audio with RealAudio

KSUT Four Corners Public Radio

Southern Ute Community Radio available via the Web Monday thru Friday.

Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation

Click on MBC Live to hear RealAudio broadcast from this northern Saskatchewan station.

NAPE Aboriginal Links - Canada's Source for Native Sites.'

Links to many sites, including a page devoted to media.

Narrative and intervention in Aboriginal filmmaking and policy'

'Narrative and intervention in Aboriginal filmmaking and policy' by Stephen Muecke - full text of article from Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 8 no 2 (1994). Also see: Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies University of NSW Press, 1992.

National Native News

"National Native News covers the social, economic and cultural issues that affect every community, and helps radio listeners understand the interconnectedness between Native people and their non-Native neighbors."

Native American Cybernetics: Indigenous Knowledge Resources in Information Technology

"The term “indigenous knowledge” usually refers to the understanding of natural processes, such as ethnobotany or ethnomedicine. Yet Native American knowledge systems include many aspects of contemporary information technologies, and native communities have become increasingly adept in appropriating computing and communication devices for their own use. I refer to this complex of indigenous and appropriated information technologies as Native American Cybernetics. --Ron Eglash"

Native American Public Radio

This site seems to be in the early stages of development as of December, 2002, but looks like it may bear interesting fruit soon.

Native Communications Incorporated

Manitoba Aboriginal FM Radio Network

Native Americas: Akwe:kon's Journal of Indigenous Issues

Website seems to be down. Consult with a librarian about interlibrary loan of print editions. This many help the search: ISSN 1092-3527. According to the Cornell Univ. library the last issue may have been December, 2004.--KT
Native Americas is the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. It features articles that cover the most important and critical issues of concern to native (indigenous/aboriginal) peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere, synthesizing the many voices, perspectives and streams of information that currently permeate the communication highways. Native Americas' writers, thinkers and doers are firmly rooted in Native American community life. It is therefore a source of significant and reliable information. Many of the articles in Native Americas feature breaking news from in-depth investigative reporting.

Native American Electronic Text Resources

Native American Journalists Association

News features, job listings, an online discussion of free press issues, links to Native American media

Native American Public Telecommunications

"Empowering, Educating and Entertaining through Native Media…The American Indian Radio on Satellite (AIROS) network is a national distribution system for Native programming to Tribal communities and to general audiences through Native American and other public radio stations as well as the Internet." Both audio and video streams.

Native Americas Online

Native Media - Film and Video Organizations, Journals and Newspapers, Radio and Television

Compiled by Lisa Mitten, University of Pittsburg.

Native Media Resource Center (offline, may be temporary)

Native News Online: A Barefoot connection

News from an activist stance that covers, among other issues, updates on Leonard Peltier, news on various petitions and alerts, and many global human rights issues and news events.

Native Times.net

An online version of a monthly newspaper published by Oklahoma Indian Times, Inc., formally known as the Oklahoma Indian Times, it now covers national neews.

Native Web

Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World

NativeWeb News Digest

A digest of news with links to full stories on many different news sites.

Navajo Times

The Newspaper of the Navajo People -- also covers Native American news from around the country.

News Watch Project

"A project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University Journalism Department. … We're your on-line resource for bringing unbiased, fair coverage of people of color and lesbians/gays to the news."

nga korero o te wa

A monthly summary of Mäori news and views from throughout Aotearoa

Niupepa: Mäori Newspapers

"This is a small but growing collection based on "Niupepa 1842-1933", a microfiche collection produced by the Alexander Turnbull Library [University of Waikato, New Zeland]. Niupepa are periodicals published in Maori or for a Maori readership. Between 1842 and 1933."… Facsimilies of originals and English abstracts of each issue available.

Northern Native Broadcasting Yukon

Canada's largest aboriginal broadcaster. CHON-FM, music, news, current affairs, community events.

Native Peoples Magazine

A sophisticated production that goes back to 1988.

Navajo Times

The weekly online version of the newspaper for the Navaho People.

Oyate Ta Olowan

"Oyate Ta Olowan, Songs of the People is a rare and authentic collection of public radio programs featuring Native American music. This landmark series steps off the beaten trail, traveling to far places in order to introduce you to talented native musicians in their homelands. Listeners are invited to sit in a summer kitchen on the Sonoran desert, gather beneath a carport under a blazing Arizona sun, travel along the magnificent coastal waters of the northwest or fly to distant points in Canada and Alaska - where even roads don't go." Uses RealAudio

Pacific Islanders in Communications

Pacific Islanders in Communications (PIC) is a national nonprofit media organization established primarily for the purpose of increasing national public broadcast programming by and about indigenous Pacific Islanders.

Peace Party

A multicultural comic book featuring Native Americans

Photographic Portraiture of Aboriginal Women on Canada's Northwest Coast Circa 1862-1880.

By Carol Williams, from SIGHTS - Visual Anthropology Forum, 1999. "A analytic movement beyond the surface of these images, which were retrieved from public archives, poses leading questions about the racist underpinnings of popular and institutional perceptions of Aboriginal women between the years of 1862 and 1880 a period of increased settlement in the British colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island."

Radio Sápmi

News and some audio feeds in English.

Samefolket

News of the Sami, indigenous people regions of extreme northern Europe including northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland and the Kola Peninsula of northwest U.S.S.R.

Sami Radio

"The newscasts of the Sami Radio put their emphasis on what happens in the Sami community, but, in addition, we report, in Sami, on the main news concerning Finland and the world. We broadcast news that other media do not tell about. For example, we follow closely the work of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples." RealAudio stream available on the News page.

Sho-Ban News

"Covering Idaho and Indian Country" - The Sho-Ban News is published weekly by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes

Suab Hmong Radio

The Suab Hmong Radio program broadcasts to the Hmong diaspora community from Milwaukee, WI through WEMP every Wednesday from 8-9 p.m. and on the Web with RealAudio.

SPIRIT Magazine

Canada’s national Native arts, culture and current affairs publication. SPIRIT is a quarterly publication published from Wasauksing First Nation, near Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada.

Survival International - Latest News

Survival International ('Survival') is a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples. It stands for their right to decide their own future and helps them protect their lives, lands and human rights. Frequently updated news of tribal peoples around the world.

Tribal News

The Alaska Native News Source that covers local Alaskan issues as well as national news. It follows legislation, business, health and education and people in the news. The site maintains archives stretching back to April, 2000.

TribaLink The Native American and Environmental News Network.

Hypertext stories, a news roundup, "teachings," and an impressive set of annotated links.*

Windspeaker On-line

Canada's National Aboriginal News Source