Exploring Jennifer Loren’s Cherokee Heritage, the artwork of Roy Boney, Jr. and the story of legendary Cherokee Ned Christie.

This month OsiyoTV features a chef, an artist and a bull rider. Each of their stories is unique but also rooted in their Cherokee heritage.

In this episode, we go fishing with professional angler Jason Christie. We pick and cook wild onions and learn about Cherokee foraging traditions. We walk riverbanks in search of river cane, a prehistoric plant that is now threatened, and we meet a Cherokee Nation citizen who made a promise to a friend and changed her life and her health forever.

OsiyoTV goes to D.C.! In this episode, we take you inside “Cherokee Days” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

In this episode of OsiyoTV, get in the ring with professional MMA fighter Jaymee “Ambush” Jones, learn traditional pottery techniques from Cherokee National Treasure Jane Osti and spend time speaking Cherokee with Mack Vann, an elder who shares his advice for the next generations.

OsiyoTV documents the emotional journey of 19 young cyclists on the 2015 Remember the Removal Bike Ride as they retrace the steps of their ancestors on the Trail of Tears.

In this episode, OsiyoTV follows two young Cherokee dancers to New York City, where they train with ballerinas from the world-renowned Vaganova Russian School of Ballet. We then look at the history and people behind one of the Cherokee Nation’s most visited summer attractions – Diligwa, a replica of a 1700s era Cherokee village. Finally, we sit down with a Cherokee National Treasure, ceramist Bill Glass Jr., whose collaborations with his son, Demos Glass, have elevated their art to new heights.

Take a journey with “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People” as we follow a Tahlequah native pursuing a modeling career in NYC, discover what motivates a gourd artist to create one-of-a-kind works and hear from a radio show host plugging the Cherokee language into mainstream media.

This episode of OsiyoTV profiles a record-setting high school quarterback, a family keeping crawdad hunting traditions alive and one of the Nanyehi playwrights who has a story of her own. They’re all Cherokee Nation citizens and we’re proud to share their stories with you.

OsiyoTV goes trick riding with rodeo performer Haley Ganzel. Cherokee National Treasure Tonia Hogner Weavel tells us the history of the Cherokee women’s tear dress and how creating the dresses changed her life. Finally, we honor Cherokee war veterans as the Cherokee Nation sends them to Washington, D.C., on the 2015 Warrior Flight.