The Grand Rapids-based Native News Online is doing a variety of things this year to bring Native voices to the forefront as the United States marks 250 years as a nation.
Their reporting project is called "America 250: A Republic Built on Native Land," and it includes special reporting, stories, an essay contest and a podcast series.
Native News Online Editor and Publisher Levi Rickert talked to IPR about how the project got started and the complicated mix of feelings he and many others feel around occasions like the semiquincentennial of the United States.
Producer: Austin Rowlader
Editing: Steve Junker
Music: Blue Dot Sessions
