By Nick Martin
To be a Native American reporter—to be Native at all—is to be constantly active, constantly tired, and constantly mad.
I’ve written ledes that open this way numerous times in just the past few months. The repetition is part of a long history of Native issues being ignored or erroneously covered by the mainstream American media.
Depending
on who you talk to, the non-Indigenous crowd’s coverage of Indian
Country issues is either stagnating or improving too slowly. But no one
who regularly covers Native issues will claim that the major
publications are doing a good job. It’s not because they’re not trying
to cover our issues; it’s because they’re trying to cover Indian Country
without the journalists that call that place home.
“Are they
doing it better? No, in short,” Native American Journalists Association
President Tristan Ahtone, member of the Kiowa Tribe, told Splinter on a
phone call earlier this month. “I think there’s effort there, but those
organizations move at glacial speeds when it comes to change.
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Source: Splinter
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