Guardian of the Land Panel following the Oregon Premiere of the OPB Documentary at the Madras Performing Arts Center as Part of BendFilm 2025. Participants included: LaRonn Katchia, Acosia Red Elk, Toma Villa & Phillip Cash Cash

In 2005 Summer Youth Workers with the Cultural Resources program at the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Branch of Natural Resources, recorded oral history segments on Cryptozoology. Cryptozoology is the study of hidden creatures. Elders interviewed were Autwai Amelia “Millie” Colwash and Myrna Frank. From the KWSO Archives.

Jessica Matten was this year's indigenous honoree for the BendFilm Festival. She is an indigenous Canadian actress who plays coach Hobbs from the Netflix film Rezball. She also plays Bernadette from the AMC series Dark Winds. Matten stopped by Warm Springs at the WYAM Youth Center before the screening of a couple Dark Winds episodes at the Madras Performing Arts Center.

Scott Kalama is the new Small Business Manager at Warm Springs Community Action Team. Not only does he strive to help out the youth of Warm Springs, he also helps out with the adults of Warm Springs, ensuring they get the right advice, the right nudge in the right direction, or the right goals to ensure their small businesses thrive.

One way to spend time learning a language is to sing along with a lesson. Several Years ago Jefferson Greene contributed some language videos for one of our KWSO multimedia Shaptakai DVDs. You can find the video versions of these songs on the KWSO radio YouTube Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpXwX0N9MBI&list=PLLbDj2FMPnrW0bJu34Roy27dhcw0hrq_s

Education around the impacts Vaping has especially on youth.

“Guardian of the Land” is a new Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) production premiering this Sunday 10/12/25 at the Bend Film Festival at the Madras Performing Arts Center in Madras at 5:30.

In “Guardian of the Land,” Emmy-nominated director LaRonn Katchia (Warm Springs/Wasco/Paiute) weaves oral histories about Bigfoot sightings and stories through the work of four leading contemporary Indigenous artists and thought leaders.

Christine Means and her family who have spent years questioning the circumstances surrounding her sister's death. In 2019, a renewed sense of hope for justice places Christine at the center of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives movement in New Mexico. Against all odds, this is a story of love, spirit, and the unwavering power of Indigenous women and allies who refuse to let their loved ones be forgotten.

As part of the Bend Film Festival this week - She Cried that day had it’s Oregon debut on Fri, morning Oct 10th, 10:00 AM in Bend @ Regal 6, then the documentary was screened Friday afternoon at 4:45 PM @ Madras - Cinema 5 and Sunday Afternoon at 1 in Bend at @ Open Space.

The Documentary’s Director Amanda Erickson is featured in this interview.

An Update on expansion of the Warm Springs IHS Clinic and impacts on visitors. The Expansion project will create new exam rooms and expand pharmacy and lab, while remodeling the old exam rooms for specialty care. The new temporary entrance is between the Dental and Community Health Pods.

Anita Jackson Wasco Curriculum - KWSO Our People & Mother Earth Program Podcast by KWSO Staff