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May 9, 2024
Twin Buttes

UND awards fluent Nu’eta speaker with honorary degree

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Hundreds of people listen to executive director Mary LaGarde welcome guests to the grand re-opening of the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Wednesday. (Ben Hovland, MPR News)

Dear Tiger Lily Reader:

Here is a column from Doreen Yellow Bird, regarding the University of North Dakota. The school awarded Edwin Benson, the last fluent Mandan speaker, with an honorary degree. See my other posts about Benson. Join the Twin Buttes community in reviving the Nu’eta language. Learn words from the language here on Tiger Lily. I am posting new words regularly. I also expect to post audio clips to the words.

Jodi Rave

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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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