NAPT Partners with RSU TV

Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc. (NAPT) has forced a partnership with Rogers State University Public TV.

Educational materials being developed by RSU Public TV in conjunction with NAPT will offer curricula for language arts, social studies, art and media. Digital learning activities such as research skills and outlined technology demonstrations will engage students. Educational materials will include political commentary, event comparisons and a time line of Will Rogers’ life as structured around the historic events that took place.

Dan Schiedel, RSU TV general manager, has been leading educational outreach efforts for the college station’s documentary Will Rogers and American Politics. Narrated by award-winning journalist Bill Kurtis, the film explores the life and influential political persuasion of Will Rogers through some of America’s difficult times in the 1920s and 1930s and how his efforts still have a powerful effect on our political system.

“Will Rogers had an amazing impact on American and Native culture,” Schiedel said. “With our partnership with NAPT we will be able to expand the reach of this program to school children across the nation.”

RSU TV (KRSC) provides educational, cultural and general interest programming to an audience of 1.2 million viewers in northeastern Oklahoma and the Tulsa metro area. In addition to producing educational telecourses and live interactive college and high school concurrent courses, the station also produces special interest and local programming, children’s programs and document features.

NAPT, located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is a non-profit, which receives major funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, shares Native stories with the world through support of the creation, promotion and distribution of Native media.