You're listening
to the Daybreak Star Radio Network.
Only radio network
officially indigenizing the airwaves.
Literally the voices
and the representation
of Native people in the music
industry is not there.
That's why we did this, is to get
the immense talent
that the Native community has
out to the public and out to one another.
It's an
opportunity to introduce
a native radio network.
To to our people.
There are lots of Native stations.
There's Native stations from Canada
to Chile, like there's lots of them,
but they're local
and they're often only on the rez,
and sometimes they're not very clear
even when you're on the rez.
Indigenizing the airwaves, that's what we're doing.
We're here to lend our voice in a
respectful way to all of the communities,
to all of the lands,
to all of our listeners across the globe.
We're not focused on
you know, a Seattle audience.
We're not focused on
just, you know, Washington State.
You know, we're we're national
or international.
We wanted to have more of a way
to connect with one another.
So social media and Internet radio
is kind of the way to go.
Please introduce yourselves
and state your tribal affiliation.
My name is Yung Trybez.
I'm from The Snotty Nose Rez Kids
People of the Snow.
That's northwest B.C., Canada.
Brenda Atencio, I go by G Precious
My tribal affiliation is Ohkay Owingeh,
formerly San Juan Pueblo.
Village of the Strong.
Here in New Mexico.
We're a, Yaqui
part Yaqui, Mexican, you know,
(speaking in Tlingit language)
My names are Ed Littlefield and
Shaakhudastoo
Born and raised in Sitka, Alaska.
(speaking in Tlingit language)
My name is Gene Tagaban.
My Tlingit name is Guuy Yaau
Tak’deintaan Raven Freshwater Sockeye Clan
from Hoonah, Alaska
child of the Wooshkeetaan
Eagle Shark Clan
in Juneau
I'm Cherokee, Tlingit, and Filipino.
Being able to have this
amazing wealth of art
from all Indigenous peoples
from every tribe
we can get music from, from
from all the people
and have other Indigenous people hear it.
There's a connection
there's a connection
we all have
there's a connection to the land and
and from what we come from
there's a connection
to the sky and the stars
and we
we all have that as part of our culture.
It's all in our stories.
And to be able to have
that thread continue,
it just makes us all stronger.
All these like, people, like,
you know, may not be from my same tribe,
but from the same similar background.
I'm like, this is, this is awesome.
I felt inspired.
I felt I felt happy.
I felt home.
Remember who you are.
Remember where we come from
and were able to change this world
and our music.
You know, I love the fact that.
My music's being played
all the way across,
you know, on the other side.
And that's amazing to me.
Daybreak Star Radio Network, right on.
Mike, my executive
director here
at United Indians of All Tribes
had a vision.
He wanted a radio network.
What's stopping us
from doing a radio station?
There's very few of them
in the United States
that are Native operated and owned.
And I just thought,
you know, that's a good question.
I was doing an interview
one day at another radio station
and a gentleman
called in to our request line.
He was asking
a bunch of questions about radio.
How do you start a radio station?
What tools do you need
to start a radio station?
Sure enough, it was Mike.
Things just kind of fell into place.
One notch after another.
The radio station
officially launched
in terms of our first broadcast
last July, 2021.
We have podcasts.
We have music shows, we have talk shows,
we have serious topics.
We weren't going to
just be a hip hop station.
We weren't going to just be an R&B.
We have listeners that may not be a
hip hop fan.
So if someone is a real rock and roll fan
and a metal fan,
they can go to DaybreakStarRadio.com
and find out
when their favorite genre plays.
Same thing for jazz.
You know,
we have a exciting jazz show
that's launching tomorrow, in fact.
One of the interns, his name is Marcus.
Worldwide debut tomorrow.
Hello, everybody.
Welcome to Indigenous Jazz.
This is Marcus on the Air,
and I am your host
I'm learning a lot about how to
work with media.
How do you work with, like,
my own people,
how you do ethical research
and do stuff that supports
others and builds community.
Because the end of the day,
there's a word in Cherokee
called "Gadugi",
which is about working together
like we're together
for the benefit of all.
And I feel like that's
what we're doing here
at Daybreak Star.
"He is Kaw and Muscogee Creek"
Hopefully we aim to do this
radio show is bring attention
to newer artists
who are out there
trying to get stuff going,
whether they're of Native descent
or whether they're tribal members.
Just want to get them recognized.
You'll see artists that
you wouldn't think necessarily,
you know, have that exact Native connection,
but, you know they do.
You can hear Native beats
in all music.
It's the drum, it's
the sound of the drum, it's
the constant rhythm.
So Native music is a part of everything.
People just don't know it.
They've lost
that little bit of knowledge.
So bringing that,
we're bringing that back.
"We got more music coming up."
There's just so much available
and there's so much
that people just need to hear.
The only radio network
officially indigenizing the airwaves
the Daybreak Star Radio Network.