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Photography from the United Tribes International Powwow

United Tribes International Powwow 2017

Photos By Chad Nodland / SnapChad

BISMARCK, N.D.

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Chad Nodland is a Bismarck-based attorney who has recently volunteered legal services to Water Protectors at Standing Rock. He’s been attending powwows in North Dakota for over 25 years and photographing them as a hobbyist for the past six. More of his photos can be found at SnapChad

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.