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This year’s Community Spirit honorees are recognized for their basket art, music, weaving, helping their community cope with loss and honoring those who died. We’ll hear from some of the award winners about why their Native culture is important to them. Are you inspired by someone in your Native community?
Guests:
Anna Huntington – development director of First Peoples Fund
David Boxley (Tsimshian) – Tsimshian traditional wood carver
Jack Gladstone (enrolled citizen of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana) – Montana’s troubadour
Lynette Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota) – director of Yellow Bird and coordinator of the Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual Run
Break music: Chicken Dance (song) Blackfoot Confederacy (artist) Confederacy Style (album)