Growing Native
Saturday, November 2, 16, 23 and
December 14, 2024, 6 PM 

GROWING NATIVE is a four-part series that takes viewers on adventures throughout Indian country. Through conversations between different episode hosts and local guides, viewers get a glimpse of modern and traditional reservation life, and learn how native people pass on their experience and wisdom to others in a positive way. The series highlights these shared experiences to help bridge a better understanding of native people. Viewers also learn how Native communities are working toward sustainable food sovereignty and renewable energy sources, and how they adapt to climate change impacts.

Growing Native
Northwest: Coast Salish
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 6 PM 

Venture to the Pacific Northwest to capture the stories of ongoing traditions and perseverance of its original inhabitants. For the tribes of this region, water is life. The rivers that crisscross this land were the highways for trade and freshwater grocery stores for thousands of years. Today, tribes celebrate their cultures by participating in a yearly canoe journey, an opportunity for people to gather and travel to all the places their ancestors once inhabited. From totem poles to language preservation to traditional crafts, host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) discovers the wilds of the North.

• WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 11/02/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/04/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/04/2024 @ 10:30 PM
• WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 11/07/2024 @ 4:00 AM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 11/09/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Mon, 11/11/2024 @ 3:00 AM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 11/14/2024 @ 4:00 AM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 11/14/2024 @ 10:00 AM

Growing Native
Alaska: People of the North
Saturday, November 16, 2024, 6 PM 

All across Alaska, Native cultures have depended on abundant natural resources to support their families, cultures, and ways of life. Now, however, those resources are growing scarce, and the people who have relied on them for centuries have to find new ways to adapt. Growing Native visits some of the many communities engaged in this familiar struggle - the struggle to maintain their traditions and ways of life, while continuing to thrive in a constantly changing world. Host Chris Eyre (Cheyenne Arapaho) meets Alaska Natives who thrive and survive in this complex environment.

• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/11/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/11/2024 @ 10:30 PM
• WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 11/16/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 11/16/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Mon, 11/18/2024 @ 3:00 AM
• WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 11/21/2024 @ 4:00 AM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 11/21/2024 @ 4:00 AM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 11/21/2024 @ 10:00 AM

Growing Native
Great Lakes: Turtle Island
Saturday, November 23, 2024, 6 PM 

Over the centuries, the Great Lakes have been home to hundreds of tribes and a source of fresh water, food, and health. Indigenous creation stories describe the world that came into being on the back of a turtle shell, and today, they know the earth as Turtle Island. Growing Native host Stacey Thunder (Red Lake and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) guides this journey by engaging tribal voices while touring Indian country with those who still devote their lives to care for the land.

• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/18/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/18/2024 @ 10:30 PM
• WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 11/23/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 11/23/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Mon, 11/25/2024 @ 3:00 AM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 11/28/2024 @ 4:00 AM

Growing Native
Oklahoma: Red People
Saturday, December 14, 2024, 6 PM 

Oklahoma is home to 39 federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in North America will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere will you find a more tragic history. Host Moses Brings Plenty (Oglala Lakota) guides this episode of Growing Native, on a journey to Oklahoma’s past and present. What he discovers among the many faces of Oklahoma culture is the determination, values and respect tribes have brought to this land, once called Indian Territory.

• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/25/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-REMOTE 47.5 - Mon, 11/25/2024 @ 10:30 PM
• WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 11/30/2024 @ 6:00 PM
• WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 12/14/2024 @ 6:00 PM