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Cobell v. Salazar panel (live stream) scheduled for around 4:20 p.m. Pacific

The Indian Land Consolidation Symposium is now in the second day of panel presentations here at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Spokane. Go to Buffalosfire on USTREAM for a live internet stream of a panel discussion on Cobell v. Salazar.

Panelists will be Judge Sally Willett and one additional speaker to be named. The Cobell settlement still hasn’t been settled. Congress is expected to take up the matter during the lame-duck session.

That’s all for now.

Jodi Rave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

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.