The documentary "Long Line of Ladies" follows a Karuk woman through coming-of-age ceremony for women known as Ihuk. Pimm Tripp-Allen, Senior Advisor for Tribal and Native American Relations for HAF, talks about the film.

SOU student Abigail Rademacher recently won the rarely achieved American FFA Degree. Her story is this month's Stories of Southern Oregon.

The American Revolution broke out during an outbreak of smallpox, and George Washington ordered inoculation for the entire Continental Army. The riots happened because the inoculation was not available to all the people clamoring for it. The story is told by historian Andrew Wehrman in the book The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution.

Erika Hayasaki's Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family about Vietnamese twins separated by adoption and their reunion.

California recently announced a $47 Million package of funding going to tribes around the state, to help house indigenous people. The package includes $14 Million for the Wiyot Tribe, to open the Jaroujiji Youth Housing Project in Eureka. David Cobb with the tribe describes the project.

Fire District 5 Battalion Chief Brian Bolstad and community member Marla Estes about changes in wildfire preparation, evacuation protocols, and emergency alert management.

California recently announced a $47 Million package of funding going to tribes around the state, to help house indigenous people. The package includes $14 Million for the Wiyot Tribe, to open the Jaroujiji Youth Housing Project in Eureka. David Cobb with the tribe describes the project.

Benjamin Lorr explored the food supply chain in his book The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket.

Oregon Public Broadcasting, teamed up with the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica to take salmon samples to a lab. The samples showed mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at levels high enough to cause concern at the high levels of salmon intake of tribal members. OPB investigative reporter Tony Schick visits to describe the unfolding of the story, and where it may lead.

Peace figures prominently in the life of Ashland resident Ron Hertz, and in the novel he recently published, Even Heroes Sometimes Sink.