Native American

Something special recently happened in Iowa City: The historic Englert Theatre hosted a convergence of Indigenous creativity and presented the modernized fashion styles of 25 Indigenous, Iowa artists.

Host Charity Nebbe speaks with expert readers and author Diane Wilson about her novel The Seed Keeper for the Talk of Iowa book club.

Generations of Native Americans have experienced historical trauma due to centuries of mistreatment. One group of intertribal women in Nebraska and Iowa are taking steps to heal through a new creative outlet.

Native people discuss the realities of being Indigenous in 2023, and the former principal chief of the Osage Nation offers his perspective on Killers of the Flower Moon.

In 1971, a highway crew uncovered the bones of 28 people.

Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe speaks with author David Treuer about his book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present.

As senators from Iowa and Nebraska throw support behind federal legislation that would return land in northwest Iowa to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, a spokesperson remembers the tribe's former council chair who began the push.

Now that "Killers of the Flower Moon" is becoming a blockbuster movie, the community where many of the murders took place is wrestling with how to open up about its past.

Native American communities often lack the resources to upgrade drinking and wastewater infrastructure. The Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska is an extreme example — living without safe drinking water for four years.

The Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company was owned by two Euro-American men in the late 1800s who used the tribe's identity to sell so-called "Indian remedies."