Tristan Ahtone
Poverty and Public Health ReporterTristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma. He’s also German and English and a few other dashes of European (just to make things more interesting). Before becoming a reporter, Tristan held a number of exciting jobs, such as door-to-door salesman, delivery driver, telemarketer, secretary, janitor, busboy, and office clerk to name a few. In 2006, Tristan graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts with a bachelors degree in Creative Writing. In 2008, he received a masters degree in broadcast journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism. Since 2008, Tristan has specialized in covering Native American, environmental and healthcare issues, and has worked with The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, National Native News, Frontline, Indian Country Today, Sirius Satellite Radio and NPR. Before moving to the southwest, Tristan worked as Morning Edition Host and Reporter for Wyoming Public Radio. He currently serves as KUNM's Poverty and Public Health Reporter.
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Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, Nov. 10 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Buckle up for a "country-fried, psychedelic, honky-tonkin' rock 'n roll, soul music" concert with King and his band. Known for his unparalleled performance prowess and a dynamic live show, King shoots from the hip and plays straight from the heart.
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Better known as 'Fat Leonard,' the former Navy contractor, who has already served more than six years, could spend the next eight and a half years behind bars.
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Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. When we look at the world at the tiniest scales, things get very weird. Take a wild ride through the quantum world, from the discoveries that reveal its strange rules to the amazing technologies it unlocks – with more powerful possibilities to come.
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A Día de Muertos ofrenda in San Ysidro features the meager belongings of people who died trying to cross the southern border illegally.
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Una campaña presidencial marcada por el tumulto y la discordia se acerca a su fin en el día de la elección, mientras los estadounidenses deciden si llevan a Donald Trump de vuelta en la Casa Blanca o si elevan a Kamala Harris al Despacho Oval.
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Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Mabel Dodge Luhan was a trailblazing feminist 100 years ahead of her time. She was a champion for Women and Native American rights. In 1917 she moved from Greenwich Village to Taos, New Mexico. There she married Tony Lujan, a Tiwa Indian from Taos Pueblo.
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