The first segment looks at the disagreement between John McCain and Robert Torricelli during a Congressional hearing on potential amendments to the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. A biographic profile looks at Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan in the second segment. The third segment is a biographic profile of singer/songwriter and Chairman of the Florida Seminoles James "Jim" Billie. The fourth segment highlights a stop on the "Honor the Earth" Tour featuring the Indigo Girls at Little Wound School on the Pine Ridge reservation in Rapid City, SD. The last segment interviews Yupik mask carver Jack Abraham who talks of his inspirations through personal struggles and tradition versus modernity. National Native News is a nationally broadcast news series that provides news for Native and non-Native Americans from a Native American perspective.
