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NextGenRadio

Finding, coaching and training public media’s next generation.

what does it mean to be ‘home’ ?

Next Generation Radio NAJA is a five-day multimedia project highlighting the experiences of Indigenous people.

This project was produced in April 2023 in partnership with the Native American Journalist Association and the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Our reporters are college and university students or early-career journalists.

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CHEROKEE NATIVE INSPIRES A GENERATION THROUGH SINGING THE CHEROKEE LANGUAGE

Pictured is Next Generation Radio participant Kait Lavo.

by MICAH FLETCHER, member of the Cherokee tribe

Ella’s heritage
Can be shared by singing in
Cherokee language

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TORN BETWEEN WORLDS, A CHEROKEE STUDENT FINDS A TRUE SENSE OF HOME

Pictured is Next Generation Radio participant Kait Lavo.

by EMMA HALL, Cherokee and Blackfeet by descent

When he misses home
Renee seeks people like him
Finds it at the Nest

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BUFFALO REVITALIZATION IN THE HEART OF THE WIND RIVER RESERVATION

Pictured is Next Generation Radio participant Kait Lavo.

by SIGNA MCADAMS, member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe

Buffalo is home
Culture restored through her
Rematriation

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FISH PIE AND SEAL SKINS BRIDGE ELDER’S TIES TO UNANGAX̂ HOMELAND

Pictured is Next Generation Radio participant Kait Lavo.

by KANESIA MCGLASHAN-PRICE, Unangax̂ from the Qawalangin tribe of Unalaska

Far from her homelands
Finding Strength in heritage
Stories bring her home

An animated illustration of a wrestle fight, in the background, memories of an older man watching a wrestle fight with a younger man.

ANISHINAABE PRO WRESTLER FINDS SENSE OF SELF IN THE RING

Pictured is Next Generation Radio participant Kait Lavo.

by STEFAN RICHARD, member of Sagkeeng First Nation in Treaty 1 Territory

A wrestler that changed
Traveling many miles
To change who he is