support them.

Yeah.

>> All right.

Lily Wagner, thanks very much.

>> Thank you.

>> In northern Wisconsin, the only tribal radio station in the state won't see federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after this week.

Following the cuts, 88.9 FM says it will explore unconventional ways air in collaboration with Ikt, formerly Indian Country Today.

Here and now reporter Erika Ayisi visited Woodland Community Radio in Hayward to learn more.

We should mention Wisconsin Public Media also lost CPB funding.

Here's Erika's report.

>> And we're going to miss that greatly.

40% plus now between 40 and 45% of our funding.

That's a bunch of money is going away.

>> Jeffrey Jones, host of the afternoon show, wants listeners to know how much federal funding would be lost due to the vote to defund the Corporation for >> Now, more than ever, we need our listeners.

So again.

drive asking listeners to hear his he'd for donations.

>> We have an extra week of of coming to you, our listeners, to ask for your support to expand.

>> Kaardal Houdek, general manager of Woodland Community Radio, says the station needs generous support to keep Wisconsin's only tribal radio station on the airwaves.

>> For next year, we're going to have to look for approximately $230,000 to to maintain what we have going.

>> Received funding distributed by CPB.

It was defunded in July as part of President Donald Trump's Rescission Act of 2025.

The administration took back $1.1 billion in Pre-allocated CPB funds, threatening the operation of 57 tribal stations across the country.

Like 88.9 FM in Hayward.

>> It kind of breaks my heart to see it, but that's what's going on in this world today.

And we're we get the repercussions of that.

>> Houdek says.

W.o.j.

B self generates funds through listener donations, underwriting and leasing their radio towers.

>> We actually made over $250,000 last year on our own.

>> But Harbeck says the rural radio station needs more.

>> We're not going to be able to make it with listener donors and underwriting together.

Still not enough.

>> JB is on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nation Reservation.

Houdek says they went on the air in 1982 out of activism amongst the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribal members.

>> The creators of the station were concerned about not having a voice and not being heard.

>> Boat landings were spears or fishing are packed with protesters, cops and reporters.

>> In the late 80s, Harbeck says Ojb educated listeners about tribal sovereignty and ceded territory during the Walleye Wars.

Spearfishing controversy.

>> You're going to take everything that's allowed to anybody else, and that's not right.

>> A lot of people misunderstood or didn't care to understand the the treaty, the hunting and fishing rights of the Ojibwe people in, in northern Wisconsin.

>> Welcome.

Welcome to Ojb.

>> Thank you.

And today, Horlbeck says listeners, tune in from the Northwoods and beyond.

Operating at 100,000W, reaching nearly 100 miles in every direction.

>> We just barely get up to superior.

But if you get up on the hill in Duluth, we reach that far.

We'll reach down, you know, maybe as far as Amory, as far east as easily Park Falls.

>> Hubbard says he's hopeful that his conversations with Native Public Media, a Native American based public broadcasting organization, will help generate funds.

>> I think they could come up with something significant.

>> As he waits for South Dakota Senator Mike rounds to make good on his promise with the Trump administration to take $9.4 million of unused climate change money and reallocate it to certain tribal stations.

>> I think it included the most needy tribes I know.

We made the list.

>> A list hasn't been made public, but Harbeck says the staff and volunteers at Ojb are up to the challenge.

>> I'm Jeff and it's the afternoon here on reserve.

>> And Opportunity.

>> We're broadcasting from Lac Courte Oreilles.

>> To keep their community programing on the airwaves.

>> So we're going to have to do something above and beyond to generate the funds that we need that are unconventional to what we're used to doing.

>> Music from Perfume Genius here on B, from the new one called.

>> Reporting from the Lac