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November 23, 2024
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Thanksgiving is for being with the family; the night before, for reuniting with friends

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)

It’s a holiday rooted in togetherness, a cherished opportunity to spend time with the people who matter most.

Which is precisely why Eli Hager arrives home from New York City the night before Thanksgiving, eats dinner with his family and then makes a beeline for Tommy Joe’s in Bethesda, where the crowd at the bar is three-deep by 10:30 p.m., and drink orders have to be shouted over Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”

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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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