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Gary Farmer Video: University of Montana radio station needs Native programming

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Gary Farmer, actor
Gary Farmer, actor

 

Gary Farmer, actor, journalist and founder of Aboriginal Voices Radio, spoke to students last Friday at the University of Montana campus. During a question and answer session, he told the audience he was bewildered that the UM radio station, KBGA, didn’t have any Native programming. Check out the video to hear his comments.
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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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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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2 Comments

  • Jackie
    October 19, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Great story Jodi.

    Isn’t it strange when we live right here in town and never even thought about using the campus radio to share so many of the Native events in this community. Thank you Gary Farmer for pointing it out and you Jodi for bringing it to our attention.

    *J*

  • Richard
    October 23, 2009 at 9:18 am

    The SSCRA of 1940 stated Native American Indians serving in the military will be taxed according to their tribal laws and not the laws of the state in which the tribe is located in,.
    This law was not enforced and Indian Military members were ilegally taxed up until 2001. This question should be asked by tribal leaders and president obama should enact legislation to repay and compensate all these veterans or their next of kin.

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