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DoomsdaysCW#Trump Cuts to #PublicMedia Threaten #NativeAmerican Stations That Protect #Culture & #PublicHealth, Issue Alerts
July 18, 2025
"We speak to Loris Taylor, president of #NativePublicMedia, about the Trump administration’s drastic #defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nations. Fifty-nine #TribalRadioStations and one tribal #TelevisionStation that depend on federal funding will be among the first to face possible closure, putting some of the essential services that #PublicBroadcasting provides, including warning systems for missing #IndigenousWomen and girls, at risk.
"Taylor shares how Native-led public media helps preserve #IndigenousLanguages and helped keep communities informed during the peak of the COVID-19 #pandemic. She fears that without these same resources and 'with the #ClimateCrisis increasing, [we] are going to be operating on the margins of information and are not going to have real lifesaving information available to our citizens when they need it most.' "
Listen / watch / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/18/public_broadcasting_cuts_native_public_media
#ViewerSupportedNews #DemocracyNow #CulturalGenocide #EmergencyCommunications #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting #TrumpHatesThePoor #CorporateColonialism #LanguagePreservation #NativeAmericanNews #NativePublic #NativeAmericans #USPol
Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts
We speak to Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, about the Trump administration’s drastic defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nations. Fifty-nine tribal radio stations and one tribal television station that depend on federal funding will be among the first to face possible closure, putting some of the essential services that public broadcasting provides, including warning systems for missing Indigenous women and girls, at risk. Taylor shares how Native-led public media helps preserve Indigenous languages and helped keep communities informed during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. She fears that without these same resources and “with the climate crisis increasing, [we] are going to be operating on the margins of information and are not going to have real lifesaving information available to our citizens when they need it most.”
#NativeAmerican radio stations at risk as #USCongress looks to cut $1B in public broadcasting funding
By MARGERY A. BECK
Updated 12:06 AM EDT, July 16, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — "Dozens of Native American radio stations across the country vital to tribal communities will be at risk of going off the air if Congress cuts more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to industry leaders.
"The U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on whether to approve the Department of Government Efficiency’s plan to rescind previously approved public broadcasting funding for 2026 and 2027. Fear is growing that most of the 59 tribal radio stations that receive the funding will go dark, depriving isolated populations of news, local events and critical weather alerts. The House already approved the cuts last month.
" 'For Indian Country in general, 80% of the communities are rural, and their only access to national news, native story sharing, community news, whatever it is, is through PBS stations or public radio,' said Francene Blythe-Lewis, CEO of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based Native American video programming producer Vision Maker Media. 'If the claw back happens, I would say a good 90% of those stations will cease to exist.'
"Native American communities rely on local radio stations
"Local radio plays an outsized role in the lives of many who live in Indigenous communities, where cable television and broadband internet access are spotty, at best, and nonexistent for many. That leaves over-the-air TV stations — usually a PBS station — and more often local radio to provide local news, community event details and music by Indigenous artists. Sometimes the news is delivered in Indigenous languages.
" 'It means we’re not going to hear our language on the radio,' Blythe-Lewis said.
"Flagstaff, Arizona-based #NativePublic #Media, which supports the network of 59 radio stations and three television stations serving tribal nations across the country, said about three dozen of those radio stations that rely heavily on Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding will be the first to go dark if funding is cut for the coming fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
"Loris Taylor, CEO of Native Public Media, said in an op-ed that the tribal stations reach more than 1.5 million people and 'may be the only source of locally relevant news, emergency alerts, public safety announcements, language preservation, health information and election coverage.'
Republicans face pressure to pass the cuts
"GOP senators are under pressure from President Donald Trump, who promised last week on his Truth Social platform that any Republican who votes against the cuts 'will not have my support or Endorsement.' "
"Many Republicans say the public media system is politically biased and an unnecessary expense. Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Republican from Missouri, recently defended the cuts as necessary to hack away at the nearly $37 trillion national debt, adding, 'It is critical in restoring trust in government.'
"But some Republicans have pushed back, such as Maine Sen. #SusanCollins, who questioned the proposed cuts last month during a Senate committee hearing. She said that while some of the federal money is assigned to National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, most of it goes to locally owned public radio and television stations."
#NativeAmericanRadio #PublicRadio #CulturalGenocide #USSenate #BudgetCuts
#CPB #CPBFunding #PublicRadio #CommunityRadio #TrumpSucks #USPol #Censorship #Fascism #Authoritarianism
Add #SovereignTribalNations to the list of 25 states resisting #Trump's #BudgetCuts !
#NativeCommunities could lose $24.5B under #Trump administration proposal
If upheld by the courts, the proposed freeze on #FederalGrants would affect nearly every tribe
by Amelia Schafer
Excerpt: " 'Nearly all Tribes would be affected by a federal grant freeze, with many facing the prospect of losing tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — funding that is critical for supporting some of the most historically underserved communities in the United States,' the report concluded.
" 'When the federal government withholds funding from #Tribes and #NativeAmerican people, it’s not just a policy change. It’s a violation of those commitments — putting essential services at risk and undermining Tribal governing capacity.'
"A federal appeals court will decide if the administration has the legal authority to mass-suspend the grants, with arguments set in coming months in a lawsuit filed by the state of New York against President Donald Trump and his top administrators.
" 'as litigation around OMB’s funding freeze continues, it is essential that federal decisionmakers recognize the unique basis of funding for Tribes and #NativeAmerican people,' the report states. 'Funding to #IndianCountry is rooted in longstanding, legally-binding agreements between the United States and sovereign Tribal nations — not race, climate, or DEI.'
"At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, the OMB issued a sweeping order announcing a halt to federal grants nationwide, throwing tribal programs into turmoil.
"Although the grant freeze was temporarily halted, the administration continues to push for its implementation, and tribes continue to report difficulties in accessing the already-approved funds, the report notes.
"The bulk of the at-risk funding is dispersed through programs such as the Department of Health and Human Services [#DHHS], the Bureau of Indian Affairs [#BIA] and the Bureau of Indian Education under the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency.
"If the funding freeze clears legal hurdles, critical projects across the country will be at risk, the Brookings report said. These projects include a $35 million grant to the #OglalaSioux Tribe for #broadband development, a $3 million grant to urban #NativeHealth board for community health worker training, and a $200,000 grant to the #Chickahominy Indian Tribe for preliminary #engineering and #environmental work towards a #childcare center.
" 'This is the building block of how the U.S. government pays back tribes for the land it took,' Maxim said.
"The report does not include the sweeping cuts approved under Trump’s so-called '#BigBeautifulBill' by Congress, which includes cuts to #Medicaid, #FoodStamps and other social programs that include Native people as well as others, Brookings officials said.
"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. Maxim co-authored the report with Glencora Haskins, research associate and applied research manager."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/tribes-could-lose-24-5b-under-trump-administration-proposal/
#TribalSovereignty #CulturalGenocide #RespectTheTreaties #TrumpLies #TrumpBudgetCuts #USPol #TrumpSucks #FirstNations #StolenLand #LandBack #NativeAmericanNews #NativeCommunities
Le Monde: The ICC petitions to end Russia’s plundering of Ukrainian museums . “[For Ukraine, for Their Freedom and Ours!] called on the court to issue arrest warrants as soon as possible for Russian President Vladimir Putin and eight other top Russian officials, to put a stop to the plundering of Ukrainian museums – acts that international conventions recognize as war crimes.”
Public Land on the U.S.-Mexico Border (includes Tribal land)
September 14, 2021
"Prior to American and Mexican control, much of the region that would come to be known as the borderlands had been inhabited for thousands of years by various #NativeAmerican peoples such as the #TohonoOodham, the #Cocopah, and many others. Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the U.S.-Mexico border cut right through these and other tribal homelands. The governments of both countries relegated the once wide-ranging tribes to much smaller pieces of land along the border, where many of these groups still reside.These tribes value the land along the border for the historical and cultural connections they have in this region."
https://pehc.colostate.edu/2021/09/public-land-on-the-u-s-mexico-border/
#LandBack #NoBorders #MilitarizedZone #USMexicoBorder #USPol #MilitarizedZones #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #Racism #Fascism #PublicLands #Environment #EndangeredSpecies #CulturalGenocide
🇵🇸(🧆🏳️)Popolon🐷ᠫᠣᠫᠣᠯᠣᠨ🐎抱抱龙🐉بوبولون🤖🦧#Trump #FakeNews #Genocide #CulturalGenocide #Uyghurs.
After trump administration and lot of it's follower during it's first mandat, Uyghurs culture will disappear in 5 years.
2025 june, still lot of Uyghurs that write in their langages on their shops in Urumqi, still directions panels in Chinese (2000+years in this area, beside Huns, Sogdians, and some other culture) and Uyghur (come in this area when Kyrgyz destroyed their Khanat in 9th century, as they was always good Chinese Allies. This area called by occidental people "Chinese Tartary" in 17th-18th century, and renamed "Oriental Turkestan" at time of European Empire expansions in 19th century. They today live, with other turkic languages peoples (Kazakhs, Kyrgyz), tungustic ones (Sibe), mongolian ones (Oirats/Kalmyks, Tuvans) indo-european ones (Tajiks) and Han Chineses (including muslims Hui).
All around Xinjiang, I seen, spoke with a lot of Uyghur speaking their language, using their dance&musique in their language with their own costumes (protected at world heritage by China, their food, etc. No culturale genocide seems to have been done, there isn't specially more police than in other cities in China, as some suggested, there are security checks in subway, and most crowded places as everywhere in China. plates wrote in han chinese script and arabic script of uyghur or Kazakh or Hui (han language) language in all places,
After trump administration and lot of it's follower during it's first mandat, Uyghurs culture will disappear in 5 years.
2025 june, still lot of Uyghurs that write in their langages on their shops in Urumqi, still directions panels in Chinese (2000+years in this area, beside Huns, Sogdians, and some other culture) and Uyghur (come in this area when Kyrgyz destroyed their Khanat in 9th century, as they was always good Chinese Allies. This area called by occidental people "Chinese Tartary" in 17th-18th century, and renamed "Oriental Turkestan" at time of European Empire expansions in 19th century. They today live, with other turkic languages peoples (Kazakhs, Kyrgyz), tungustic ones (Sibe), mongolian ones (Oirats/Kalmyks, Tuvans) indo-european ones (Tajiks) and Han Chineses (including muslims Hui).
All around Xinjiang, I seen, spoke with a lot of Uyghur speaking their language, using their dance&musique in their language with their own costumes (protected at world heritage by China, their food, etc. No culturale genocide seems to have been done, there isn't specially more police than in other cities in China, as some suggested, there are security checks in subway, and most crowded places as everywhere in China. plates wrote in han chinese script and arabic script of uyghur or Kazakh or Hui (han language) language in all places,
Sky News: Scottish government apologises for ‘cultural genocide’ of gypsy travellers. “Scotland’s First Minister has formally apologised to the gypsy traveller community for the decades of trauma they suffered during the so-called ‘tinker experiment’. John Swinney said the ‘unfair and unjust’ policies, enforced by councils and the UK government between 1940 and 1980, had been ‘unacceptable’.”
RBC-Ukraine: Nearly 500 Ukrainian cultural sites damaged by Russia – EU commissioner. “Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, nearly 500 cultural sites have been damaged. This was reported by EU Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport Glenn Micallef during a press briefing in Brussels. Micallef, citing UNESCO, stated that Russian attacks […]
Karthikeyan A KBJP desperately wants ADMK to win, so that Keezhadi could be burried and forgotten.
They can't digest the fact that Tamil is far older than Sanskrit.
#archaeology #Tamil #Tamilnadu #Politics #BJP #DMK #ADMK #culturalgenocide