Each year, Americans observe National Native American Heritage Month throughout the month of November, by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of indigenous community members. NorCal Public Media celebrates Native contributions to the Bay Area throughout the entire year with feature presentations on KRCB TV, KPJK TV, and KRCB 104.9 FM.

Honoring Ohlone Land & Spirit

Join us for a visit to Saratoga’s Montalvo Arts Center to experience “A Path Forward: Honoring Ohlone Land & Spirit.” This brand-new work includes both actual and virtual artwork in a cutting-edge com...

I'm a Burner

Trina Cunningham, a member of the Mountain Maidu tribe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, continues the wisdom of her elders about fire by teaching a small group of non-native wild land fighters...

Connect the Bay: Ohlone Gathering

Every year in the East Bay, indigenous Ohlone from diverse tribal communities share their living history through music, song, dance, and stories at the Gathering of Ohlone Peoples. Together, they teac...

Berkeley Breathes Life into Native Languages

The UC Berkeley Linguistics Department has led the way in the effort to document and preserve California's native languages. The Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages is a biennial w...

Fire Stewardship with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Short Story

Amah Mutsun Tribal Chair Val Lopez and CSU Chico's Don Hankins explain the vital potential that controlled burning has, both in terms of the health of California's wildlands and its indigenous people....

Two-Spirit Powwow Trailer

San Francisco nonprofit Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) has hosted the first LGBTQ-sponsored native powwow in the country since 2012. A welcoming and inclusive event, it harkens back to...

Connect The Bay: Clapper Stick

For this Connect the Bay segment, Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Indian Canyon Mutsun) offers a song about Hummingbird while demonstrating the indigenous California instrument, the clapper stick. She reminds vi...

First Nations Experience TV (FNX)

FNX is the first and only national broadcast television network in the United States exclusively devoted to Native American and World Indigenous content. Through Native-produced and themed documentaries, dramatic series, nature, cooking, gardening, children's and arts programming, FNX strives to accurately illustrate the lives and cultures of Native people around the world.

Northern California Tribe Works to Reclaim Their Language

This summer, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs announced it was awarding $7 million to American Indian and Alaska native tribes under the Living Languages Grant Program. The program is geared towards helping the tribes revitalize languages once thought to be lost.

INDIGEFI

Honoring the past and setting trends for the future…INDIGEFI is a weekly one-hour show featuring an eclectic blend of modern Indigenous music, hosted by Alexis Sallee (Iñupiaq/ Mexican American). The show introduces you to the future of Native music with new and trending artists, while honoring the past by diving into the tracks that have shaped what we hear today. The highlight of each program is an artist interview with a featured musician. These interviews explore the unique Indigenous background and passions that inform the artist’s work.

INDIGEFI can be heard on KRCB-FM each Saturday at 11:00 am.

National Native American Heritage Month