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November 22, 2024
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Denver conference: Renewable energy in Indian Country

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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JT Shining Oneside shared stories about her Ojibwe and Anishinaabe inheritance during the Native American Heritage Month Celebration on Nov. 15. She spoke about the coming-of-age and traditional birth ceremonies. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame)

Dear Reader:
One of the foremost topics in our Native communities centers on renewable energy in Indian Country. What? Your community isn’t talking about ways to bring and provide clean energy to thousands of Native families, many now living with electricity? I’ve been heartened lately to meet a large cadre of people working in the field of renewable energy, including the folks at the Department of Energy. Staff members there have organized a  forum Nov. 16-20 in Denver “for tribes to meet and learn from other tribes pursuing energy sufficiency through renewable energy or energy efficiency, and share in their successes,” according to the DOE Tribal Energy Web site. The Doe recognizes “the increasing interest of tribes in energy efficiency and renewable energy and the benefit of tribes learning from tribes, we are opening up this meeting to Indian Country as a whole. This is a unique forum where you can get an excellent overview of the wide range of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects under way in Indian Country.”

Join the conversation. Also, if your community has any good stories about renewable energy projects, I’d really like to hear about for a magazine piece I’m working on. Keep checking back. I’ll be writing more about this issue. Thanks.

Jodi Rave

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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.

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