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Mission statement: NAPT shares Native stories with the world.

Mission and tag line: NAPT shares Native stories with the world. We advance Native media that represents the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations, communities and people.

Vision

NAPT will stay true to the fundamental vision of supporting Native media. The vision includes placement of NAPT as the curator of Native voices in public media in a rapidly changing world.

Primary Constituencies

· American Indians and Alaska Natives producing quality public broadcasting programs

· Tribal nations, Indian organizations and Native communities

· Public television and radio

· General public and global audience

NAPT exists to serve Native producers and Indian country in partnership with public television and radio. NAPT works with Native producers to develop, produce and distribute educational telecommunications programs for all media including public television and public radio. NAPT supports training to increase the number of American Indians and Alaska Natives producing quality public broadcasting programs, which includes advocacy efforts promoting increased control and use of information technologies and the policies to support this control by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

A key strategy for this work is the development of strong partnerships with tribal nations, Indian organizations and Native communities. Reaching the general public and the global market is the ultimate goal for the dissemination of Native produced media that shares Native perspectives with the world.

Values

Sharing - To share Native stories of culture and beliefs with the world. NAPT is the curator of Native voices in public media in a rapidly changing world.

Collaboration - To be collaborative in programming and field wide efforts toward visibility, access and equity for Native peoples in the mainstream media.

Creativity - To encourage creativity in all efforts in order to stay on the leading edge.

Honoring - To honor Native culture, heritage, wisdom, sacred stories, and the storyteller.