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November 22, 2024
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Payments from $760M Keepseagle settlement being distributed

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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PEMBROKE – Nineteen Robeson County farmers received nearly $2 million in a settlement with the U.S. government.

Each farmer or rancher Friday received payments of at least $50,000 from the Keepseagle v. Vislack class action lawsuit.

The lawsuit claimed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated against American Indians between 1981 and 1999 by denying them access to USDA loan and assistance programs. A $760 million settlement was reached in 2010, and payments are just now reaching those eligible for compensation.

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

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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