Native American history

It’s a beautiful, ancient language, one that very few people understand or speak.  Navajo was instrumental to the success of the U.S. in World War II. Navajo volunteers worked with the U.S. military to create a secret code language that was used for communication in the South Pacific.  Chester Nez, at 90 years old, is one of […]

Host Steve Curwood travels to the forests of Northern Wisconsin for a look at a highly successful timber business. The Menominee Indians in the area took to logging back in the 1850’s out of economic necessity. Since then, they have harvested two billion board feet from the Menominee Forest . . . yet the area […]

Steve talks with Weston Bertsall of the Osage Utilities in Osage, Iowa. The small town has had an intensive energy efficiency program since 1974.