Art Hughes

2 months ago | nativeamericacalling.com | Art Hughes

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:34 — 38.2MB) | EmbedTribes that rely on Colorado River water — and the complex set of rules that govern it — are worried about how President Donald Trump’s executive orders and the ongoing legal questions about them will affect their water access. President Trump froze federal funds for the Inflation Reduction Act.

2 months ago | nv1.org | Art Hughes

Mar 18, 2025 | nativeamericacalling.com | Art Hughes

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:40 — 38.2MB) | EmbedAuthor Marcie Rendon (White Earth Nation) continues to put her favorite Ojibwe protagonist, Cash Blackbear, into a nail biting search for another murderer in Broken Fields. It’s the fourth in Rendon’s Cash Blackbear series about a tough independent young woman who loves working the land of the Red River Valley as a farm hand and has a special intuition for solving crime.

Mar 13, 2025 | nativeamericacalling.com | Art Hughes

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:31 — 38.1MB) | EmbedAn entire wall of one school building is buckling after a leaky roof went unattended for 19 years. Students at another school have to go home to use the bathroom during the day because the school’s water pipes burst. Exposed insulation hangs from the ceiling in another school.

Mar 6, 2025 | nativeamericacalling.com | Art Hughes

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:37 — 38.2MB) | EmbedA play in Burbank, Calif. exposes the frustrations Native Americans often express about the ongoing tragedy of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). The largely Native production, Four Women In Red, portrays a group of women who learn they’re largely alone in finding out information about missing loved ones. The play comes at a time of job cuts for Department of Interior officials and federal law enforcement officers.