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support them. Yeah.
>> All right. Lily Wagner,

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thanks very much.
>> Thank you.

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>> In northern Wisconsin,
the only tribal radio

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station in the state won't
see federal funding from

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the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting after this

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week. Following the cuts,
88.9 FM says it will

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explore unconventional ways
air in collaboration with

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Ikt, formerly Indian
Country Today. Here and now

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reporter Erika Ayisi
visited Woodland Community

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Radio in Hayward to learn
more. We should mention

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Wisconsin Public Media also
lost CPB funding. Here's

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Erika's report.
>> And we're going to miss

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that greatly. 40% plus now
between 40 and 45% of our

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funding. That's a bunch of
money is going away.

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>> Jeffrey Jones, host of
the afternoon show, wants

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listeners to know how much
federal funding would be

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lost due to the vote to
defund the Corporation for

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>> Now, more than ever, we
need our listeners. So

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again.
drive asking listeners to

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hear his he'd for donations.
>> We have an extra week of

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of coming to you, our
listeners, to ask for your

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support to expand.
>> Kaardal Houdek, general

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manager of Woodland
Community Radio, says the

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station needs generous
support to keep Wisconsin's

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only tribal radio station
on the airwaves.

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>> For next year, we're
going to have to look for

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approximately $230,000 to
to maintain what we have

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going.
>> Received funding

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distributed by CPB. It was
defunded in July as part of

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President Donald Trump's
Rescission Act of 2025. The

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administration took back
$1.1 billion in

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Pre-allocated CPB funds,
threatening the operation

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of 57 tribal stations
across the country. Like

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88.9 FM in Hayward.
>> It kind of breaks my

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heart to see it, but that's
what's going on in this

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world today. And we're we
get the repercussions of

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that.
>> Houdek says. W.o.j. B

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self generates funds
through listener donations,

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underwriting and leasing
their radio towers.

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>> We actually made over
$250,000 last year on our

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own.
>> But Harbeck says the

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rural radio station needs
more.

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>> We're not going to be
able to make it with

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listener donors and
underwriting together.

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Still not enough.
>> JB is on the Lac Courte

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Oreilles Ojibwe Nation
Reservation. Houdek says

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they went on the air in
1982 out of activism

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amongst the Lac Courte
Oreilles Ojibwe tribal

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members.
>> The creators of the

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station were concerned
about not having a voice

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and not being heard.
>> Boat landings were

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spears or fishing are
packed with protesters,

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cops and reporters.
>> In the late 80s, Harbeck

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says Ojb educated listeners
about tribal sovereignty

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and ceded territory during
the Walleye Wars.

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Spearfishing controversy.
>> You're going to take

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everything that's allowed
to anybody else, and that's

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not right.
>> A lot of people

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misunderstood or didn't
care to understand the the

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treaty, the hunting and
fishing rights of the

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Ojibwe people in, in
northern Wisconsin.

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>> Welcome. Welcome to Ojb.
>> Thank you. And today,

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Horlbeck says listeners,
tune in from the Northwoods

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and beyond. Operating at
100,000W, reaching nearly

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100 miles in every
direction.

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>> We just barely get up to
superior. But if you get up

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on the hill in Duluth, we
reach that far. We'll reach

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down, you know, maybe as
far as Amory, as far east

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as easily Park Falls.
>> Hubbard says he's

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hopeful that his
conversations with Native

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Public Media, a Native
American based public

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broadcasting organization,
will help generate funds.

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>> I think they could come
up with something

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significant.
>> As he waits for South

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Dakota Senator Mike rounds
to make good on his promise

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with the Trump
administration to take $9.4

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million of unused climate
change money and reallocate

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it to certain tribal
stations.

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>> I think it included the
most needy tribes I know.

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We made the list.
>> A list hasn't been made

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public, but Harbeck says
the staff and volunteers at

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Ojb are up to the challenge.
>> I'm Jeff and it's the

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afternoon here on reserve.
>> And Opportunity.

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>> We're broadcasting from
Lac Courte Oreilles.

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>> To keep their community
programing on the airwaves.

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>> So we're going to have
to do something above and

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beyond to generate the
funds that we need that are

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unconventional to what
we're used to doing.

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>> Music from Perfume
Genius here on B, from the

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new one called.
>> Reporting from the Lac