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Memorial Walk & Vigil for Zachary Bear Heels

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By GEORGIANA AUSAN
Buffalo’s Fire

OMAHA, Neb. -Four years after Zachary Bear Heels’ death, the family gathered in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday, June 5, 2021 along with community members. Zachary was a 29 year old Native American (Sicangu/Rosebud, Kiowa Apache) man who was traveling by bus from South Dakota in 2017. After a struggle, involving Omaha officers, at a Bucky’s gas station at 60th and Center streets, Bear Heels stopped breathing and was later declared dead. Read more at: https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/06/07/community-honors-zachary-bear-heels-on-anniversary-of-police-death/

Sign stating Justice for Zachary Bear Heels
A sign from Saturday’s event that stood at the Bucky’s gas station at 60th and Center in Omaha, Neb. PHOTO BY GEORGIANA AUSAN

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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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