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May 7, 2024
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Natural Insect Repellents -Linda TȟióleuŋWíŋ Bishop

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Hundreds of demonstrators took to the White House in Washington, D.C. for the Free Leonard Peltier 79th Birthday Action on September 12, 2023. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)

Natural Insect Repellents By: Linda TÈŸióleuÅ‹Wíŋ Bishop When I was 7 months pregnant, I went to a powwow in central South Dakota. It was early August, and 104®F with 65% humidity. I was fine…really. I was perfectly comfortable sitting in the shade, sipping lemonade, and spraying myself with ice water every few minutes.  Then towards evening, my whole world turned into a painful and […]
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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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