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Diné CARE Prevails in NEPA Challenge to Navajo Mine Expansion

At the Aug. 9, 2020 Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride, Native women bikers launch from the sacred site of Bear Butte to raise awareness about missing and murdered relatives. Photo credit/ Talli Nauman

Here are the materials in  Diné Citizens against Ruining Our Environment v. United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (D. Colo.): 48 Diné CARE Opening Brief 53 OSMRE Response 54 BHP Navajo Response 55 Diné CARE Reply 79 … Continue reading
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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.