Benchmark: Native radio broadcasting in North America: An overview of systems in the United States and Canada

Abstract

For many years, Native Americans in the United States and Canada were served by broadcast systems that provided little or no Native language programming. In the early 1970s a relatively new phenomenon, the Native owned and operated radio station, began to emerge in both countries. Although Native broadcasting evolved differently in the U.S. and Canada, the two systems share many of the same goals and problems. The continued growth of new Native owned and operated radio stations and the organization of cooperative information and program sharing networks suggest that Native radio is meeting a specific need.