The first segment discusses the high death rate in Native women due to cervical cancer. Dr Tom Welty with the Indian Health Services of Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City is interviewed. Author William Loren Katz is interviewed in the second segment about his book "Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage". In the third segment, Native Hawaiians seek sovereignty. Feelings of displacement from their land are behind the movement. A Republican controlled House in 1996 looks at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its spending as a means of federal budget control in the fourth segment. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt defends the existence of the BIA. In the last segment, the 1993 production of "Black Elk Speaks", adapted by the Denver Center Theatre, shows in Los Angeles. National Native News is a nationally broadcast news series that provides news for Native and non-Native Americans from a Native American perspective.
