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Series Two Programs

Each of our programs includes six regular features:

Historical Introduction:
Program Host Arlie Neskahi (Dine, or Navajo) narrates the Introduction to the program, which provides a summary of the original journey of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, includes a Lewis and Clark journal quotation, and a brief history of the tribe involved, sometimes including their original territory and trading partners.

Elder Wisdom:
Features oral accounts of tribal elders who share personal memories and tell about the lives and character of grandparents. These individuals serve as exemplary role models to younger generations and will be featured on our website and later in educational curricula and outreach materials. Elder Wisdom is produced by Brian Bull (Nez Perce), award-winning Assistant News Director at Wisconsin Public Radio, Madison, WI.

Sacred Landscape:
Nez Perce and Cherokee herbalist and educator, Judy Bluehorse Skelton, highlights native elders' stories about the sacred geography of the featured tribe. This includes rich descriptions of the environment traveled to harvest traditional foods, shelter, herbs and other medicines for their families, special relationships with neighboring tribes who were trading partners, and issues of environmental importance in today's world.

Tribal Rhythms:
Presents interviews with musicians from the featured tribe who share the history and background of traditional music and dance, relating the legend or story behind the music, sometimes painting a colorful picture of the dance, and including excerpts of traditional music. This is produced by Clark Salisbury and Larry Johnson, scripted by Milt (Lakota) and Jamie Lee of Lee Productions, and narrated by Nico Wind (Assiniboine).

Contemporary Rhythms:
Using interviews with musicians from the featured tribes, we highlight the colorful roots of contemporary native music as diverse as blues, jazz, country and rock, tell the story of its making, and relate it to the musician's tribal culture. These segments are produced by Milt and Jamie Lee of Lee Productions.

Turtle Island Storytellers :
Spotlights tribal storytellers who share legends, creation stories and other traditional and sometimes contemporary stories that illuminate the roots of the storyteller's cultural identity. These keepers of oral tradition have many voices, many stories, many messages which have been passed down from generation to generation.


 

 

Wisdom of the Elders: Series Two

Our second series of public radio programs, with the theme, "Native Nations Along the Lewis and Clark Trail " includes thirteen nations along the eastern portion of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Trail system. Program segments feature oral history and cultural arts of indigenous elders, historians, environmentalists, storytellers, and song carriers from: Shawnee, Otoe, Omaha, Yankton, Sioux, Arikara, Mandan, Hidatsa, Crow, Northern Cheyenne, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Blackfeet and Shoshone tribes. The series of eight one-hour programs is hosted by Arlie Neskahi (Dine). Programs continue to air on native radio stations nationwide via Native Voice One at www.nv1.org.

Each one-hour program opens with a Historical Introduction which shares expedition and tribal history and provides context for the remaining features in the program.

Elder Wisdom, eight minutes in length and produced by Brian Bull (Nez Perce), features oral accounts from tribal elders who reveal stories about the lives and character of exemplary grandparents and ancestors.

Sacred Landscape, five minutes in length and produced by Judy Bluehorse Skelton (Nez Perce/Cherokee), highlights native elders' stories regarding their tribe's "sacred geography."

Tribal Rhythms, eight minutes in length, produced by Clark Salisbury and Larry Johnson, scripted by Milt and Jamie Lee (Lakota), and narrated by Nico Wind (Assiniboine), relates the history of tribal music and presents traditional music selections.

Contemporary Rhythms, eight minutes in length and produced by Milt and Jamie Lee, highlights the work of contemporary tribal musicians.

Turtle Island Storytellers, eight minutes in length, spotlights tribal storytellers who share traditional or contemporary stories that illuminate the roots of their cultural identity.

This series was funded by the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail System, National Parks Service, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.



  
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