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Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – Mental health experts point to personal connections to maintain winter mental health
December is a traditional time for feasts, family, and giving, but the financial and time burdens of the holiday-heavy month, combined with the change of seasons and other factors, also make it a time ripe for breaks in a person’s mental health. We’ll find out how connections — with other people, cultural traditions, or spiritual foundations — can be a way to mitigate the added stresses of December — or any time. GUESTS Dr. Pamela End of Horn (Oglala Lakota), national suicide prevention consultant for the Indian Health Service Kristin Mitchell (Diné), assistant project director for Project AWARE Wildcats (PAWS) Dr. Jessica Saniguq Ullrich (Nome Eskimo Community and Native Village of Wales), assistant professor at the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) at Washington State University Break 1 Music: Little Sunflower (song) Chuck Copenace (artist) Oshki Manitou (album) Break 2 Music: She Raised Us (song) Joanne Shenandoah (artist) LifeGivers (album)
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Tribes ponder blood quantum alternative
Crow leadership are working toward revamping their tribal citizenship requirements. If their proposal goes through, any currently enrolled tribal citizens would be designated as having 100% Crow blood. The St. Croix Ojibwe Tribe in Wisconsin is seeing their first tribal enrollment gains in years after they got rid of their blood quantum requirement. They are among the tribes looking down the road and mapping a future away from the Indian blood requirement. GUESTS Levi Black Eagle (Apsáalooke), secretary of the Crow Tribe Conrad St. John (St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin), chairman of St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe), professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Cheyenne Robinson (Omaha), treasurer for the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska Jonaye Doney (Aaniih), student at the University of Montana Break 1 Music: Intertribal (song) Blackfoot Confederacy (artist) Confederacy Style (album) Break 2 Music: She Raised Us (song) Joanne Shenandoah (artist) LifeGivers (album)
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Monday, December 8, 2025 – Tribal museums reflect on tumultuous year, chart their next steps
Cuts in grants and operating funds, federal staff reductions, and department disorganization – and the federal government shutdown – all took a toll on the work done by tribal museums this year. Tribal museums are a source of economic development for many tribes, but more than that they offer an authentic and more comprehensive picture of Native culture and history than their non-Native counterparts. As Tribal Museums Week gets underway, we’ll check in with tribal museums about their work and what they hope to accomplish in the current unpredictable environment for so many cultural institutions. GUESTS CC Hovie (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), public affairs and communications director for the Association on American Indian Affairs Janine Ledford (Makah), executive director of the Makah Museum Selena Ortega Chiolero (Tarahumara), museum specialist for the Chickaloon Village Traditional Council’s Culture and Historic Preservation Department Stacy Laravie (Ponca), Indigenization director for the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers Break 1 Music: Conduit of Anguish (song) Geneviève Gros-Louis (artist) Break 2 Music: She Raised Us (song) Joanne Shenandoah (artist) LifeGivers (album)
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Friday, December 5, 2025 – Tribes work to define legal boundaries for online sports betting
State by state, tribes are staking out a share in the burgeoning online sports betting business. Places like Colorado, California, Wisconsin, and Michigan all have ongoing legal and political disputes involving tribes’ ability to expand casino enterprises into online sports books. We’ll look at how the clash between states, private companies, and tribes are raising complex questions over sovereignty, regulation, and jurisdiction. GUESTS Jason Giles (Muscogee), executive director of the Indian Gaming Association James Siva (Morongo Band of Mission Indians), vice chairman for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and chairman of California Nations Indian Gaming Association Gary Pitchlynn (Choctaw), professor of law at the University of Oklahoma Break 1 Music: Rumble [Remastered] (song) Link Wray (artist) Rumble [Remastered] (single) Break 2 Music: Coffee (song) James Bilagody (artist) Near Midnight (album)
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Thursday, December 4, 2025 – An increasing number of workers turn to side hustles
Nine out of ten people seeking jobs say they have a side hustle — a second or even third job. An Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll from October 2025 also says a higher percentage of younger job-seekers — Gen Z and Millennials —expect to be able to overlap their side jobs on company time. Money is a major factor – and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported this year that more employers are cutting hours. We’ll talk with some of those who are working multiple jobs about the ups and downs of juggling a side hustle. GUESTS Mikailah Thompson (Nimiipuu), owner of Beadwork by Mikailah and owner of Indigenous Creatives, LLC Roberta Begaye (Diné), owner of Bitterwater Galerie Stephanie Garcia (Santa Domingo, Laguna, and Isleta), owner of Pueblo Creations and Pueblo Collective Enterprise Roxanne Best (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), businessowner and founder of R. Best Life: Yoga and Coaching Break 1 Music: Working for the Man (song) Bluedog (artist) Red, White & Blues (album) Break 2 Music: Coffee (song) James Bilagody (artist) Near Midnight (album)
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