The Orlando World Center Marriott will be this year's PBS Annual Meeting headquarters. Held May 16-19, the event will feature special guest speakers and performers, and highlight new content available to PBS stations for the coming year.

NAPT Executive Director Shirley K. Sneve (Rosebud Sioux), Assistant Director Georgiana Lee (Navajo) and Marketing Director Jessica Kinser will be in attendance with station relations consultant Regina Eisenberg.

For more information about upcoming attractions from NAPT, visit: www.nativetelecom.org/coming_attractions

NAPT and NSAIE have an opening for an AmeriCorps VISTA member. The position is responsible for the development of radio and television series that advance traditional Native values in society. Dedicated to the further development of a serial radio drama and a television series, this NSAIE AmeriCorps VISTA job opportunity is located at NAPT in Lincoln, Neb. Duties include maintaining partnerships with program partner organizations and individuals, coordinating an advisory committee, research, grant writing, funding and additional resources, research health information and provide capacity building organizational support, as needed.  

To find out more, or to apply, visit: www.americorps.gov 

DEADLINE to apply is June 1, 2011 

FRONTLINE's The Silence is being streamed in its entirety on PBS.org. Click here to watch.

About The Silence: 

Saint Michael is a village of 370 residents on the southwest coast of Alaska, 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It is isolated and remote--there are no roads in or out--anytime of the year. Christianity has had a presence in Saint Michael for over a century. Catholic missionaries came to the Alaskan wilderness to bring education, medicine and teach the word of God. Priests became trusted elders in the community, but weird things would start to happen upon their arrival in 1968 when Father George Endal, Deacon Joseph Lundowski and Brother Anton Smario arrived at the Catholic Church. For the first time, a small group of survivors will confront the very institution that devastated their village.  

To find out more about The Silence, visit: www.nativetelecom.org/silence 

NAPT Project Coordinator Brendan McCauley will be attending the 2011 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) meeting in Sacramento, California, May 19-20. More than 600 individuals from sixteen countries will be participating in numerous breakout sessions over the three days. NAISA is a professional organization dedicated to supporting scholars and others who work in the academic field of Native American and Indigenous studies.

To find out more, visit: http://naisa.org

NAPT Marketing Director Jessica Kinser, was recently elected to serve as the President-Elect for the Lincoln, Neb., chapter of the American Marketing Association beginning in July 2011. In July 2012, Jessica will take presidency of the organization with just under 200 members. The Lincoln Chapter recently was awarded first-runner up at nationals for the title of Chapter of the Year. The Chapter was also awarded the Continuing Excellence Award. The American Marketing Association is comprised of more than 30,000 members worldwide.

To find out more about the American Marketing Association, visit: www.marketingpower.com 

The Silence, a new documentary by Tom Curran, tells the decades old, untold sotry of what happened behind church doors in the remote Alaska village of St. Michael.

"For 30 years, the story of that abuse was largely untold," said Curran, an Emmy® award-winning cinematographer.

In the decades following the abuses, the Catholic Church denied the accusations of molestation from St. Michael and other Native villages throughout Alaska.

The documentary tells the story of four victims, now adults, who reveal the events that ravaged their lives and their families.