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May 21, 2024
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Analysis: Environmental ‘stressors’ threaten Lakes Erie, Ontario

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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An image of Ayabe-Way-We-Tung, the chief of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, who began pushing the U.S. government for a reservation in the 1870s, adorns the wall in the Little Shell Tribal Health Clinic lobby in Great Falls, Montana. The mural is a reminder of the tribal nation's long push for federal recognition, which was granted in December 2019. Credit: Katheryn Houghton / KHN

Facing multiple threats, Lakes Erie and Ontario are the most threatened of the five Great Lakes, while the depths of Lake Superior remain the most pristine, according to a detailed analysis of 34 so-called stressors to the world’s largest supply of fresh 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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