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November 22, 2024
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After language summit in DC — on to New York City

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)

Hello all:

Thanks for checking out the Web site. The blog postings have been a bit light the past few days. I’ve been in Washington, D.C. since Sunday where I attended a national language summit. It was an amazing conference organized by the National Alliance to Save Native Languages and Cultural Survival. The organizers brought in some incredibly inspirational people who have dedicated their lives to preserving Native languages in their communities. Did you know 70 Native languages are expected to become extinct within the next decade, according to an UNESCO report? I expect much of my future postings will focus on land and language issues. While in Washington, I also attended the Cobell vs. Salazar oral arguments in the U.S. District Court of Appeals. The Cobell case was filed in 1996.

Meanwhile, after the language summit ended Wednesday, I took the train up here to New York to tend to personal business.  And then tomorrow, I’ll be leaving New York to attend the law school graduation at the University of New Mexico.

One more thing, this Web site design is temporary. It will soon be in a magazine style format. If you would like to advertise on this space, contact me at jodirave@yahoo.com. I expect to post much more frequently once I get my computer equipment and redesign in place. Thank you for your interest.

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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