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Message to media: Hear the Indian voice
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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
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March 15, 2006
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Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
03-15-2006
A good core of Native journalists and other professionals working in media
and American Indian issues gathered for the "Hear Our Story: Communications
and Contemporary Native Americans" symposium, held in Washington in early
March. The Friends Committee on National Legislation coordinated the event,
while the American Indian Policy and Media Initiative and many others
networked organizations and individual presenters to request from American
media that it "hear our story."
Some 60 speakers among nearly 200 participants offered ample evidence of
the sharp intelligence, humor, poise and cultural distinctiveness among
professionals and observers of the ...