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May 5, 2024
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New Scholarship by Mary Wood: “Tribal Trustees in Climate Crisis”

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Sashay Schettler visits the North Dakota State Capitol on March 5, unaware that she’d be chosen to be the assistant director for the Office of Indian and Multicultural Education. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame

Mary C. Wood has posted “Tribal Trustees in Climate Crisis” on SSRN. It is forthcoming in the American Indian Law Journal. Here is the abstract: The legal “cornerstone” of federal Indian law is the federal trust obligation. The duty was … Continue reading →
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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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