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Sanctioned Iran loses $1B-per-month oil shipment to India

Sunshine Archambault, a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe citizen, said she sees the younger generation are interested in learning Lakota/Dakota and want to provide opportunities for them to learn. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame

Iran has just lost one of its biggest buyers, as India announced on Friday that it’s not taking crude imports from Iran any longer.

India halted the shipments because insurance companies aren’t covering the refineries that process the oil because of sanctions from the West, Reuters reports. That’s a major …
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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.