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About

The KSUT Tribal Media Center seeks to empower Indigenous voices through media education, facilitating content creation, and distribution of content through public media networks, including public radio, public television, and the internet. Launched in 1976, the center seeks to create bridges between Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous communities through media creation and media education. Programming includes the 2020 Native Lens video program to distribute grassroots video content created by Native Americans, and Native Braids, an intimate audio project where a Southern Ute tribal elder/adult converses with a younger tribal member on a specific topic or story, centering language, cultural preservation, and the continuation of oral storytelling. We also host the Dream Warriors artist collective workshops in Ignacio for audio production, beat-making, lyric writing, public speaking, performance, and preserving cultural identity through popular media. Water challenges are reaching critical levels in the southwestern US and Colorado River Basin and we recognize that inclusion of diverse voices in decision-making leads to better outcomes and more resilient solutions to our water challenges. To meet this challenge KSUT, Fort Lewis College (FLC), and Rocky Mountain PBS propose to build a collaborative pilot Tribal Water Media Fellowship Program.

Years Supported: 2022
Grant Type: Protection of Water
Location: Navajo, AZ