Minneapolis, MN, USA
$500 - $800 / Day
Allison Herrera is a maker, a lover of Mexican breakfasts, a worrier and a mom. She is the former editor of the Twin Cities Daily Planet, an award winning online publication, producer for Ampers and reporter for KFAI radio in Minneapolis. She’s an independent radio and video producer for various public radio and television stations throughout Minnesota. She recently worked with KBFT radio on the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa reservation in northern Minnesota to produce a series of shows about art, culture, history and the environment. She’s currently wrapping up a reporting project about Native American communities in Oklahoma called Invisible Nations. She’s also completing a documentary about Ojibwe painter Jim Denomie. She lives in Minneapolis with her daughter Anna.
Produced for AIR-Association of Independents in Radio
Singer-songwriter Samantha Crain will tell you her music isn’t country, folk, or rock and roll. She says it’s not an Oklahoma sound either, even though some of her songs portray life in the state’s small towns, back roads, and struggles. Like the song "Elk City," from her 2015 album Under Branch and Thorn and Tree.
Freedmen is another term for descendants of former slaves. And in the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, the question of their status within the tribes has been debated for decades. In the Cherokee Nation, there are two open court cases that will determine the freedmen’s tribal citizenship. And a similar debate is happening in the Seminole nation.
Herman "Mogri" Lookout is the master language teacher for this Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. He's studied the language for forty years and helped revitalize the written portion of it by creating an orthography. From there, he worked with developers to create Osage for Unicode. He says that it all started with a desire for people to be able to pray in their own language.
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