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Happy New Year from the warmth of the Buffalo’s Fire

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”  ~Oprah Winfrey

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR BLOGHappy New Year! Can you believe it? Today — already — is the last day in 2009. As everyone marks the new year this evening, I wish it be memorable, lovely and enjoyable. Also, my apologies for the dearth of daily posts over the last week. I had a family funeral to attend a thousand miles away from my home here in Montana. I’m back now, however, and all is well. Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to the first full year of posts at the Buffalo’s Fire. I thank everyone for reading and making December the best month yet for hits on this Web page, which I created in May. The last I checked, the Web site had 144,197  hits just in December alone. I know the coming year promises more news you want to read and that you will find only on the Buffalo’s Fire. So, keep reading and I’ll keep posting.  

As for the new year, may 2010 bring all you hope for in a new year of life. 

Cheers!

Jodi Rave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.