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November 22, 2024
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Valley of Thundering Water: Wild Horses Threatened on Navajo Reservation

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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By Charles Kennedye
Producer

By Jodi Rave
Executive Producer

The wild horses on the Navajo reservation have run free for hundreds of years. They are a symbol of strength and grace, but sadly they may soon be gone forever. Powerful forces in and outside the tribe are quietly working to clear the horses off the land and sell them for slaughter. Artist and activist Ron Jackson lives on the reservation and is fighting to keep the animal, so sacred to his people’s tradition, wild and free.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear serves as the executive director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. She can be reached at Jodi@imfreedomallliance.org. She is a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and is, on the paternal side, Miniconjou Lakota.

Charles Kennedye is a documentary producer for Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA). He can be reached at krazykiowa24@yahoo.com.

Valley of Thundering Water
Valley of Thundering Water
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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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