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April 28, 2024
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Senators Urge Obama to Approve KXL, Slap Tribes in Face -Matt Remle

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Rebecca Clarren’s next stop on her book tour for “The Cost of Free Land” is Bismarck on April 29, where she’ll be having a reading and open discussion about the dispossession of Indigenous land. Photo by Shelby Brakken, photo courtesy of Rebecca Clarren

On March 14th, U.S. Senators John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont) introduced legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The bi-partisan backed bill, S. 582, if passed would approve the 1,700-mile project under Congress’s authority enumerated in the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8. 15 Senators signed on as co-sponsors, […]
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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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