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November 24, 2024
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Fernando Padilla Jr. named as the Red Earth Honored One

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By DAN BIGBEE
Buffalo’s Fire

The 2021 Red Earth Honored One is Fernando Padilla Jr. Fernando comes from the San Felipe Pueblo and is an award-winning artist in a variety of mediums. Each year Red Earth Inc. selects an artist to be the Honored One. The award is meant to recognize the artists support of Native arts and the artists body of work throughout his or her lifetime. See Mr. Padilla’s reaction to winning this prestigious award in this video story.

Fernando Padilla Jr.
Fernando Padilla Jr., honored as the Red Earth Honored One in this year’s festival. (Photo By Dan Bigbee, Buffalo’s Fire)

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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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