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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