FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  January 5, 2007
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WHRV TALK SHOW EPISODE ACCEPTED FOR NATIONAL BROADCAST
HearSay with Cathy Lewis Program on Native Americans at Jamestown Streaming on NativeRadio.org 

Norfolk:  WHRV 89.5FM, public radio for Hampton Roads, has announced that the October 8, 2006 episode of its popular call in talk show, HearSay with Cathy Lewis, has been accepted for national carriage through Native American Public Television and AIROS radio on nativeradio.org.  The program is currently streaming nationally with live webcasts, podcasts and MP3 downloads through the month of January.  Jamestown 2007: The Native American Connection was produced by Kim Lyman, Karla Martin and Michelle Kim, and featured guests Mattaponi Chief Ken Adams, Chief Stephen Adkins (Chickahominy) and Powhatan Owen (Chickahominy) discussing with host Cathy Lewis the Virginia Tribes’ battle for Federal recognition.

The HearSay with Cathy Lewis episode also featured the Chiefs’ perspectives on the historical representation of Virginia Tribes in American textbooks. They discussed the extermination of twenty tribes by English settlers during the first hundred years of settlement and what they called the systematic "paper genocide" of all Native Americans in Virginia.