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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by Making Your Voice Heard

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Make your voice heard - Bring awareness to important legislature to help protect Indigenous lands. (Image/Sara Marcum) Make your voice heard - Bring awareness to important legislature to help protect Indigenous lands. (Image/Sara Marcum)

This Native American Heritage Month, we want to bring awareness to the hundreds of Indigenous sacred sites across the country. These are sites that offer Indigenous foods, medicines, ceremony, burial sites, and creation stories – but they are being threatened and desecrated by the climate crisis and harmful development projects like pipelines, mining, and resource extraction.

There are two landmark pieces of legislation that could correct these injustices and ensure that Native people have a seat at the decision-making table:

The Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land Act and the Tribal Cultural Areas Protection Act

Sponsored by the Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, the current petition is for Congress to pass advance and pass these bills. The petition can be found here.

References:

Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund, Petition to Secure Native Land, https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-demand-congress-protect-native-sacred-places-now-2

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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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