The first segment discusses the significance of brown bears to the Yupik people and their opposition to researchers' methodologies for drugging the bears during capture. In the second segment, friends and family of Reuben Snake are interviewed as a part of his memorial. The third segment reports on the use of animal parts in Native artwork. In the fourth segment, the issue of public access to ancestral burial grounds in Eklutna is discussed. The last segment briefly mentions the Ojibwe of Minneapolis and the children of the Heart of the Earth School and the songs they wrote there. National Native News is a nationally broadcast news series that provides news for Native and non-Native Americans from a Native American perspective.
