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While it still happens in some places, Native tourism is moving far beyond selling rubber tomahawks, chicken feather headbands, and other trinkets. Tribes and Native-owned businesses are realizing the valu
Alyssa London hosts MSNBC’s “The Culture Is: Indigeous” show on the Peacock Network (Photo: screen capture).
e for authentic, Native-made works and meaningful traveler experiences. The time between Memorial Day and Labor Day is prime tourism season. We’ll find out how tribes are making the transition to culturally sustainable tourism development.
Also, MSNBC is airing a roundtable discussion among accomplished Native women about culture, identity, and representation in a society that so often treats Indigenous people as invisible. It’s an intimate and frank conversation hosted by Alyssa London and airs on the Peacock Network. We’ll hear from Alyssa about how the show came about and what it can do to hear powerful Native women voices.
GUESTS
Richardson Etsitty (Navajo), CEO and founder of Antelope Hogan and CEO and manager of Antelope Hogan Canyon Tours
Laura Blythe (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), program director of the Cherokee Historical Association
Sherry Rupert (Paiute and Washoe), CEO of the American Indian and Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA)
Alyssa London (Tlingit), MSNBC contributor and host of The Culture Is: Indigenous Women on the Peacock Network
Break 1 music: Honoring the Homeland (song) Radmilla & Herman Cody (artist) Shi Kéyah (album)
Break 2 music: Blackbird Song (song) Emma Francisco, Frances Manuel, Joaquin Garcia & Lorenzo Pablo (artist)
The National Forests and Parks hire Rangers that are interpreters on the land that “ colonial narrative “ calls a park. Why aren’t there indigenous interpreters to explain the “ indigenous “ history of what the land meant to them??