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Niijii Radio
An Open Letter from
Winona LaDuke
Boozhoo (Hello),
My name is Winona LaDuke the Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) a parent organization of Niijii Broadcasting and Niijii Radio. I am writing to you to ask for your financial support. The White Earth Land Recovery Project was notified by the Federal Communications Commission that Niijii Broadcasting had been awarded two construction licenses for community-based radio stations. In October 2010, the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program (PTFP) awarded Niijii Radio a grant of $466,389. Niijii Radio still needs to match this grant by raising $155,464 through private and in-kind donations. An additional $360,075 is needed to support equipment, personnel, supplies, and signage. Your support will help meet the required match and first-year equipment and operation costs.
Niijii in Ojibwe means friend. We felt it was the ideal name for a radio station that will help build
healthy community connections. Over the past decade, our friends and community have cultivated
the idea of creating an independent media platform for the White Earth Reservation and
surrounding region. Niijii Radio hopes to create and provide content that will help local and
regional cultures to flourish by encouraging innovative ideas, providing community-based education
and promoting diversity.
By creating healthy civil discourse, Niijii Radio will encourage community dialogue, information
sharing and understanding. Coverage will include content such as local and national news,
community events, community sports as well as Ojibwe language and history. Broadcast content
will be driven by listeners from their own voice and through their own reflection. Please become a
friend and member of Niijii Radio by supporting this very important initiative. Attached is our
fundraising proposal. Feel free to contact me at any time at: (218)280-1720
or email me at: Winona@welrp.org.
Miigwetch (Thank You),
Executive Director
White Earth Land Recovery Project
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