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Original Air Date 4/16/2019 Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and colonialism that have been endemic in post-contact America. This episode is the fourth in an ongoing series focusing on Native Peoples in North America. Previous episodes are, in order, #1216 on Christopher Columbus, #1230 on Thanksgiving, and #1252 on Westward Expansion. Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  HOLIDAY SHOPPING - BOOKS AND MORE! BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows and Bonus Content) Join our Discord community! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: American Indians Confront “Savage Anxieties” - Moyers and Company - Air Date 12-26-14 Bill speaks with Robert A. Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about how deals such as the one with Rio Tinto are a part of American Indian's tragic history of dispossession. Ch. 2: What we inherit: Explaining intergenerational trauma - Code Switch - Air Date 6-6-18 The story of one family's struggle to end a toxic cycle of inter-generational trauma from forced assimilation. Getting back to their Native Alaskan cultural traditions is key. Ch. 3: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide - @Making_Contact - Air Date 11-26-13 Andrea Smith, author of “Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide” explains the connection between violence against women, and the colonization of native lands and bodies. Ch. 4: The legal structures that uphold violence against Indigenous people #MMIW - Let's Talk Native... with John Kane - Air Date 2-14-19 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is a major issue because of racism. Acquittals for murdering Native people occur because of racism. Racism is systemic, historic and the norm in the US and Canada. Ch. 5: End the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Crisis: Tell Congress to Pass #SavannasAct, #SURVIVEAct & Reauthorize #VAWA Take action! Click the title and/or scroll down for quick links and resources from this segment. Ch. 6: Jenni Monet on Indigenous Journalism - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 1-24-19 Corporate media's lack of interest in indigenous issues, and their ahistorical, distorted view of them when they do cover them, are long overdue for a change. Ch. 7: Beyond Tragedy: The living history of Native America - Ideas from CBC Radio - Air Date 2-20-19 This idea of history as tragedy is something that Ojibwe writer David Treuer tries to undo in The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. He argues that Indigenous peoples have always found ways to adapt, and that's exactly what they're doing now. VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Disagreeing on arguments against a female presidential candidate - Stacy from San Francisco Bay Area FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments sharing some voices of Native people giving their perspective on the burning of Notre Dame cathedral TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to Pass/Reauthorize: Savanna's Act SURVIVE Act Violence Against Women Act Learn more at MontanaMMIW.com & on Twitter: #MMIW #MMIWG EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE A missing sweater tells the story of missing Indigenous women (Indian Country Today) Savanna's Act is Back (Splinter) States weigh bills addressing Native deaths, disappearances (AP) House Passes Bill Protecting Domestic Abuse Victims; GOP Split Over Gun Restrictions (NPR) Montana Senate Betrays Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Splinter) Tester reintroduces “Securing Urgent Resources Vital to Indian Victim Empowerment” Act (KRTV) Lisa Murkowski Revives Bill Targeting Missing And Murdered Native Women (Huffington Post) Researched & written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions) Episode Image: Slowking4 via commons.wikimedia.org   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com  

This week, we are revisiting some of OBP's most joyous interviews starting with Farai's conversation with two publishers of color, Elizabeth Méndez Berry, vice president and executive editor at One World, an imprint at Penguin Random House, and Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher at Pantheon and Schocken Books on celebrating the work of BIPOC authors and critics. Then public health professionals and sisters Nilufar Kayhani and Nazineen Kandahari share the inspiration and beauty behind starting the Afghan Clinic, an online space that serves the health needs of fellow Afghans. Farai then speaks with Rue Mapp, founder of Outdoor Afro, about finding joy in the great outdoors and encouraging others to do the same. And in the weekly roundtable Sippin' the Political Tea, Farai talks with fellow women of color journalists, S. Mitra Kalita, founder and publisher of Epicenter NYC, and Jenni Monet, CEO of URL Media and author of newsletter Indigenously about what it means to identify as women of color and why identifying as one can evoke both personally powerful and political implications.

This week on Our Body Politic, Farai looks back on the 2016-2017 Dakota Access Pipeline protests with investigative journalist Jenni Monet to discuss activism among indegeonous peoples in America and across the globe. Farai also talks with MacArthur Grant Award winner, Harvard professor and author Tiya Miles about one family heirloom from the enslavement period that remarkably stood the test of time. Then in our weekly segment "Sippin' the Political Tea" Farai is joined by Christina Greer, political scientist and Associate Professor at Fordham University and Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania, as they examine the discrimination and other barriers international students and also non-white Ukrainanians are facing in result of Putin's invasion.Additional InformationOur Body Politic PodcastMore shows from The Democracy Group

Julio and guest co-host Jenni Monet, independent investigative journalist and founder of the newsletter Indigenously, are joined by Karen Attiah, columnist for The Washington Post, and Sabrina Rodríguez, national political correspondent for Politico. They unpack the latest coverage on the war in Ukraine, its ramifications for U.S. immigration and refugee policy, and the Biden administration's enforcement of Title 42. We also hear from Hansi Lo Wang, NPR national correspondent, on a report estimating undercounts of Black, Latino, and Indigenous Americans in the 2020 census. ITT Staff Picks: “It took three days to cross the border. You cannot warm your car because you don't have enough petrol to move. We moved three meters and we stopped the car,” said Iryna, a Ukrainian refugee, in this piece for Politico by Eugene Daniels. The Biden administration has been planning conversations with Mexican officials about ending its enforcement of Title 42, reports Hamed Aleaziz for Buzzfeed News. In this piece for NPR, Hansi Lo Wang breaks down the reasons, ramifications, and possible remedies for the U.S. Census Bureau's perennial undercount of Black, Latino, and Indigenous Americans. Photo credit: AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File

This week on Our Body Politic, Farai looks back on the 2016-2017 Dakota Access Pipeline protests with investigative journalist Jenni Monet to discuss activism among indegeonous peoples in America and across the globe. Farai also talks with MacArthur Grant Award winner, Harvard professor and author Tiya Miles about one family heirloom from the enslavement period that remarkably stood the test of time. Then in our weekly segment "Sippin' the Political Tea" Farai is joined by Christina Greer, political scientist and Associate Professor at Fordham University and Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania, as they examine the discrimination and other barriers international students and also non-white Ukrainanians are facing in result of Putin's invasion.

Host Farai Chideya talks with former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner about the pros and cons of being a progressive within the Democratic Party. Doctors Uché and Oni Blackstock share their family's history with healthcare, and what we know and don't know about the new Covid-19 variant. Dana Coester of 100 Days in Appalachia explains why she was not surprised by the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict after years studying rising, armed extremism among white youth. On Sippin' the Political Tea, Farai and two fellow journalists and media trailblazers—S. Mitra Kalita of URL Media and Jenni Monet of Indigenously—examine what it really means to consider themselves women of color.EPISODE RUNDOWN0:28 Progressive Democrat Nina Turner on whether the party can deliver for voters12:50 Doctors Uché and Oni Blackstock on their sense of purpose in medicine21:15 Journalist Dana Coester on extremist recruitment of white youth in the U.S.31:20 Sippin' the Political Tea: journalists S. Mitra Kalita and Jenni Monet join Farai to discuss what it means to be a woman of color, especially in media

Julio and guest co-host Jenni Monet, independent investigative journalist and founder of the newsletter Indigenously, are joined by S. Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, and Justin Worland, senior correspondent for Time Magazine covering climate change and policy. They reflect on the 2021 election results and unpack the latest with infrastructure spending and Biden's Build Back Better plan. They also talk about the COP26 climate summit, and the latest on vaccine outreach.Staff Picks:On the language around climate change, Mary Annaïse Heglar writes “as we look for new words and slogans, it should be for the purpose of galvanizing those who want to be on the right side of history,” for The Nation. Leaders in developing countries have faced hurdles in attending the COP26 climate conference, yet they are the most vulnerable to climate change, reports Justin Worland for Time Magazine. The 19th's Washington correspondent Amanda Becker spoke with Arizona voters about what they are hoping to see from Biden's Build Back Better plan, including a paid leave program. Photo credit: AP Photo/Alastair Grant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For this special 500th episode of In The Thick, Maria and Julio reflect on this milestone of centering POC voices. Then, Julio and guest co-host Wajahat Ali are joined by ITT All-Stars Terrell Jermaine Starr, foreign affairs reporter and host of the Black Diplomats podcast, and Jenni Monet, independent investigative journalist and founder of the weekly newsletter Indigenously. They get into what it means to seek out and create spaces for journalists of color, the latest developments in Congress, and they look forward to the Supreme Court's upcoming session.ITT Staff Picks:Journalist S. Mitra Kalita reports on the need for hiring managers to holistically support women and people of color in the workplace in this joint column for Charter and TIME Magazine.For Washington Post Opinions, columnist Jennifer Rubin writes about Representative Pramila Jayapal's tenacity and firm stance on the infrastructure bill and reconciliation package.The Supreme Court “is now poised to do what a mob of white terrorists never could: Stop progress,” writes Elie Mystal for The Nation on the court's current term. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of "First Voices Radio," Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks with Jenni Monet, an investigative journalist, media critic, and founder of the weekly newsletter, "Indigenously: Decolonizing Your Newsfeed." Jenni has been reporting from Indian Country for as long as she's been a journalist, from the coups d'etat on Jicarilla Apache lands in the late '90s to the dramatic demonstrations at Standing Rock a few years ago where she was arrested while on assignment and later acquitted. Jenni got her start as a broadcaster for CBS News affiliates then segue-wayed into public TV and radio, including a stint a tNational Native News. Along the way, Jenni made a few indie docs, returned to school, and moved to the Middle East to cover global affairs for Al Jazeera where she also traveled throughout the Indigenous world. Jenni has been working independently since 2015, where her my award-winning reporting has been published by such outlets as The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and PBS News Hour, to name a few. Her media criticism also appears frequently in the Columbia Journalism Review. At times, Jenni can also be seen and heard discussing Indigenous affairs for a variety of media outlets. Jenni has an MA in international politics from Columbia Journalism School with a concentration in Indigenous human rights policy. She's a founding member of the Indigenous Media Caucus, and resides on her ancestral homelands in the American Southwest where she's Kawaik'a, a tribal citizen of Laguna Pueblo, Big Turkey clan. Jenni and Tiokasin discuss her most recent newsletter story, "Gabby and Us" and several other topics stemming from this piece: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, domestic violence, mainstream news media bias, "Missing White Woman Syndrome," racism, land acknowledgements and more. More information about Jenni can be found at https://www.jennimonet.com/. Sign up to receive her weekly newsletter at https://www.indigenously.org/.Production Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NYMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersCD: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:44)2. Song Title: KothbiroArtist: Ayub OgadaCD: The Constant Gardener (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Label: Higher Octave Music(00:46:10)3. Song Title: Oh, What a WorldArtist: Kacey MusgravesCD: Golden Hour (2018)Label: MCA Nashville Records(00:52:38)

Julio and guest co-host Jenni Monet, independent investigative journalist and founder of the newsletter Indigenously, are joined by ITT All-Stars Ryan L. Nave, editor-in-chief of Reckon South, and Karen Attiah, opinion columnist at the Washington Post. They dive into the latest on COVID-19, Republican attacks on voting rights and efforts to incorporate immigration reform into the Democrats' budget reconciliation bill.ITT Staff Picks:For CNN Opinion, journalist Morgan Stephens writes about her experience with long COVID: “The breakdown of my own physical and mental health has given me front-row access to the long Covid-19 crisis in a way I never imagined.”Opinion columnist Charles M. Blow writes about how President Biden has failed to protect voting rights and the Black community in this piece for The New York Times.Jolie McCullough, who covers criminal justice, reports on Governor Greg Abbott's increased border security initiatives to arrest migrants for The Texas Tribune. Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Farai Chideya talks with special guest Jenni Monet, an Indigenous affairs reporter and media critic at Indigenously, and Errin Haines of The 19th, on Sippin' the Political Tea. U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia L. Fudge explains why it's so important to her that the federal government call out systemic racism. Harvard University historian Annette Gordon-Reed reflects on Juneteenth through the lens of memoir. And author Nobuko Miyamoto shares her new book, “Not Yo' Butterfly,” about her decades as an artist and activist in the U.S.EPISODE RUNDOWN1:02 Sippin' the Political Tea discusses the week's news with Indigenous affairs reporter Jenni Monet and contributor Errin Haines18:45 Secretary Marcia L. Fudge of Housing and Urban Development on acknowledging systemic racism in the federal government30:03 Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard on celebrating Juneteenth growing up in Texas38:00 Nobuko Miyamoto on her new memoir and the power of artistic expression

Maria is joined by Marinah Valenzuela Farrell, a Chicanx midwife and director of the Changing Woman Initiative, and Dr. Rachel Hardeman, a reproductive health equity researcher and a Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, for a conversation about inequity in birthing healthcare—particularly for women of color and the LGBTQ community. They discuss how to ground our ideas of parenthood in inclusive frameworks and the path towards reproductive justice.SAVE THE DATE: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on Wednesday, May 26th at 7pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by Georgia Fort, award winning independent journalist and Tarkor Zehn, journalist and audio producer to discuss police violence, racial justice and healing in Minneapolis during the week that marks one year since the police murder of George Floyd. For more info and to RSVP, click here.This episode is sponsored by Ground News - The world's first news comparison platform. Download Ground News for free: http://ground.news/thickITT Staff Picks:This episode about Trans Motherhood for the TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones dives into how parenting is different for trans parents. Jenni Monet writes for The Nation about the “systemic factors that hinder Native American maternal health—problems arising from a legacy of neglect regarding Indigenous life.”In this personal essay for Vogue, journalist Natasha S. Alford writes about her pregnancy experience as a Black, high-risk expectant mom: “...when confronted with the overwhelming amount of choices that needed to be made for my own health, I quickly found myself confused, tousled around, and frustrated, by a medical system that takes a diagnostic rather than holistic approach to fetal and maternal care.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maria and Julio break down the week's news with two ITT All-Stars. They are joined by Wajahat Ali, contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and Jenni Monet, founder of the newsletter Indigenously. They talk about how white supremacy shows up among members of Congress, Biden's initial actions on climate policy and Indigenous affairs, and how the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate Black, Indigenous and Latino communities.ITT Staff Picks: The New York Times Editorial Board calls on Republican leaders to reject QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy movement. Tim Naftali, associate professor at New York University, writes about why Trump is the worst president in U.S. history in this piece for The Atlantic. Jodi Archambault, former special assistant to the president for Native American affairs under President Barack Obama, writes for The New York Times about how the coronavirus has put tribal elders, and the languages they pass down, at risk.Photo credit: Erin Scott/Pool Photo via AP, File See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Farai Chideya talks with journalists who are changing the world around them. First, veteran journalist Maria Hinojosa on creating a more inclusive newsroom as one of the pioneering Latinas in public radio. Then journalist Wendi Thomas on why she built a newsroom by and for locals in Memphis; and Jenni Monet on decolonizing our news feeds. The New York Times’ Somini Segupta talks about covering the climate crisis. And Lisa Lucas explains how a Twitter hashtag changed her career path, and her goals as a new publisher. Plus, the women behind the Guild of Future Architects join Farai for the second part of their conversation on envisioning our collective future.Episode Rundown1:22 Veteran journalist Maria Hinojosa talks about the ups and the downs of her career in public radio and what she’s learned in the process.5:12 Hinojosa talks about having to defend herself in the newsroom, even as colleagues accused her of having a “Latino agenda.”6:55 Hinojosa talks about creating the newsroom she wished she had as a young journalist, in Futuro Media Group.13:05 Tennessee journalist Wendi Thomas on why she started her media outlet, MLK 50, and how she was able to get the funding to make it all happen.15:40 Thomas recently won an award for her investigative piece about a local hospital suing patients, “whose only mistake was being sick and poor at the same time.”17:05 Thomas talks about why local journalism is so important in creating change.18:30 Our weekly Covid update looks into how the pandemic has wreaked havoc on those who were already experiencing hardships before Covid. 20:39 Investigative reporter Jenni Monet talks about her newsletter, called Indigenously: Decolonizing Your News Feed.24:04 Chideya and Monet reflect on their time at Standing Rock and whether or not people should expect their government to make change.27:42 Somini Sengupta shares what she’s learned covering climate change for The New York TImes, “I've learned that climate change is not a future risk. It is a now risk.”32:03 Lisa Lucas, the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, talks about rising up in the literary world.35:57 Lucas talks about the tweet that landed her a publishing job.34:40 Lucas never imagined herself to be a publisher, but has big goals for the position.38:39 Journalist Sarah Smarsh talks about her piece “Poor Teeth,” which explores the accessibility of dental care in America and how it is an indicator of socioeconomic status.40:39 Smarsh talks about The Poor People’s Campaign and how it is carrying out the legacy of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.42:42 Why Dolly Parton is an important role model for feminist, working class women.44:28 Guild of Future Architects founder Sharon Chang explores the importance of imagination in studying history.46:36 Farai shares a listener voicemail and discusses paths to equitable and accessible care systems with the Guild of Future Architects leaders.

Maria and Julio are back with the second virtual live show of 2020! They’re joined by ITT All-Stars Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media and host of the new TransLash podcast, and Jenni Monet, journalist and founder of the new weekly newsletter Indigenously, to talk about the state of our nation. They discuss issues of voter suppression, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Indigenous vote. They also dive into the SCOTUS confirmation hearings and what it means for LGBTQ rights.This episode was mixed by Rosana Cabán.RSVP for ITT's Live Election Night Show: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on election night Nov. 3rd starting at 6pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by ITT All-Stars to provide live election analysis and coverage from a Black, Indigenous and POC perspective. Trust us you don't want to miss this one! For more info and to RSVP, click here.ITT Staff Picks:“After Trump, the Republican Party may become more extreme,” writes Stanley Greenberg in this piece for The Atlantic.Listen to the most recent TransLash episode about the religious right and trans healthcare. Jenni Monet recounts the history of Indigenous Peoples' Day and explains why we should cancel Columbus in this Medium article.Photo credit: AP Photo/Gerry Broome See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maria and Julio are joined by Jamaal Bowman, 2020 Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s 16th District. They unpack Bowman’s path to running for Congress, and discuss how the Black Lives Matter movement fueled his victory. They also talk about the role of progressivism in the Democratic Party and how Democrats are engaging with voters. SAVE THE DATE: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on Wednesday, Oct. 14th at 7:30pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by All-Star guests Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media, and Jenni Monet, founder of Indigenously to discuss the 2020 election and the POC vote. For more info and to RSVP, click here.This episode was mixed by Elisheba Ittoop. ITT Staff Picks“Black power comes from Black love. It is Black love that helped me, Cori Bush and Mondaire Jones, among many others, to win congressional primaries in this historic moment,” writes Jamaal Bowman for Essence magazine. Progressives unveil an agenda that aims to push Joe Biden to the left if he wins, from Holly Otterbein for Politico. Democrats could take back the Senate in 2020. The writers at Vox lay out what their priorities should be if they do.Photo credit: Corey Torpie See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maria and Julio discuss the highs and lows of the vice presidential debate. They hear from special guest Tauhid Chappell, an executive board member for the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists and Philadelphia Project Manager for the Free Press’ New Voices project, on what it means to see Kamala Harris in the limelight. They also discuss the superspreading event in the White House and the recent domestic terrorism plot in Michigan. SAVE THE DATE: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on Wednesday, Oct. 14th at 7:30pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by All-Star guests Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media, and Jenni Monet, founder of Indigenously to discuss the 2020 election and the POC vote. For more info and to RSVP, click here.ITT Staff Picks Vox writers break down the winners and losers from the vice presidential debate.The writers at Mother Jones offer a detailed timeline of Trump’s coronavirus denial, with comprehensive filters like “Magical thinking” and “Interfering with science.” “Latinx Americans Should Not Have to Bear Witness to Trump's COVID-19 Circus,” writes Maria Hinojosa in this piece for Cosmopolitan.Photo credit: AP Photo/Paul Sancya File See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maria and Julio talk with Alicia Garza, special projects director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, co-creator of Black Lives Matter, and co-host of the Sunstorm podcast, and Ai-jen Poo, co-founder and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and co-host of the Sunstorm podcast. They discuss the latest news with the White House as the latest coronavirus hotspot. They also talk about the impact of women of color organizers from the domestic worker movement to Black Lives Matter, and if this historic moment will bring an opportunity for change in this country. SAVE THE DATE: Our next virtual LIVE ITT show is on Wednesday, Oct. 14th at 7:30pm ET! Maria and Julio will be joined by All-Star guests Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media, and Jenni Monet, founder of Indigenously to discuss the 2020 election and the POC vote. For more info and to RSVP, click here.ITT Staff Picks: “Domestic workers are organizing to make care work a 2020 election issue,” writes Sheila Bapat in a recent article for Truthout. “Rather than being politically inactive, many non-voters organized outside of electoral spheres long before Trump took office, and argue that Trump is not exceptional,” writes Vanessa Taylor in this piece for Mic that sheds light on why some Black and brown voters are opting out.Ben Mathis-Lilley gives an update on the presidential election in a round-up for Slate.Photo credit: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maria and Julio unpack the mess of this week from President Trump and the first lady testing positive for COVID-19 to the first 2020 presidential debate. They also discuss the snubbing of Latinx voters throughout the election season. RSVP for our next virtual LIVE ITT show that will be on Wednesday, Oct. 14th at 7:30pm ET: Maria and Julio will be joined by All-Star guests Imara Jones, creator of TransLash Media, and Jenni Monet, founder of Indigenously to discuss the 2020 election and the POC vote. For more info and to RSVP, click here.ITT Staff Picks: “Toxic masculinity takes center stage at the first presidential debate,” writes Errin Haines for The 19th.Lola Méndez examines how Twitter is responding to Telemundo’s misleading Post-Debate poll in this piece for Remezcla.“Trump’s call for supporters to watch polls ‘very carefully’ raises concerns of voter intimidation,” writes Daniella Silva for NBC News. Photo credit: AP Photo/Julio Cortez See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As COVID-19 death rates in some native communities soar, and federal care package payments to Indigenous tribes lag behind those to state and municipal governments, why does the US trail so far behind other colonizing countries in its news coverage of its first peoples? On this week's Kicker, Kyle Hopkins, special projects editor of the Anchorage Daily News and recent recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for public service, and Jenni Monet, an independent journalist and a tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, who writes about Indigenous rights and injustice, join Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR. They discuss the difficulty of pitching stories on native communities to editors, and the harm we do when we report on our 574 Indian nations as a monolith.

Air Date: 4–16-2019 Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and colonialism that has been endemic in post-contact America. Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: American Indians Confront “Savage Anxieties” - Moyers and Company - Air Date 12-26-14 Bill speaks with Robert A. Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about how deals such as the one with Rio Tinto are a part of American Indian’s tragic history of dispossession. Ch. 2: What we inherit: Explaining intergenerational trauma - Code Switch - Air Date 6-6-18 The story of one family's struggle to end a toxic cycle of inter-generational trauma from forced assimilation. Getting back to their Native Alaskan cultural traditions is key. Ch. 3: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide - @Making_Contact - Air Date 11-26-13 Andrea Smith, author of “Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide” explains the connection between violence against women, and the colonization of native lands and bodies. Ch. 4: The legal structures that uphold violence against Indigenous people #MMIW - Let's Talk Native... with John Kane - Air Date 2-14-19 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is a major issue because of racism. Acquittals for murdering Native people occur because of racism. Racism is systemic, historic and the norm in the US and Canada. Ch. 5: End the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Crisis: Tell Congress to Pass #SavannasAct, #SURVIVEAct & Reauthorize #VAWA Take action! Click the title and/or scroll down for quick links and resources from this segment. Ch. 6: Jenni Monet on Indigenous Journalism - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 1-24-19 Corporate media’s lack of interest in indigenous issues, and their ahistorical, distorted view of them when they do cover them, are long overdue for a change. Ch. 7: Beyond Tragedy: The living history of Native America - Ideas from CBC Radio - Air Date 2-20-19 This idea of history as tragedy is something that Ojibwe writer David Treuer tries to undo in The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. He argues that Indigenous peoples have always found ways to adapt, and that's exactly what they're doing now. VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Disagreeing on arguments against a female presidential candidate - Stacy from San Francisco Bay Area FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments sharing some voices of Native people giving their perspective on the burning of Notre Dame cathedral TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to Pass/Reauthorize: Savanna's Act SURVIVE Act Violence Against Women Act Learn more at MontanaMMIW.com & on Twitter: #MMIW #MMIWG EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE A missing sweater tells the story of missing Indigenous women (Indian Country Today) Savanna's Act is Back (Splinter) States weigh bills addressing Native deaths, disappearances (AP) House Passes Bill Protecting Domestic Abuse Victims; GOP Split Over Gun Restrictions (NPR) Montana Senate Betrays Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Splinter) Tester reintroduces “Securing Urgent Resources Vital to Indian Victim Empowerment” Act (KRTV) Lisa Murkowski Revives Bill Targeting Missing And Murdered Native Women (Huffington Post) Researched & written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Gullwing Sailor - Migration Cicle Veroni - Cicle Kadde Cloud Line - K4 Slow Lane Lover - Barstool This fickle world - Theo Bard Minutes - Pacha Faro Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent Episode Image: Slowking4 via commons.wikimedia.org   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Alexa Devices | +more Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!

Maria and Julio are joined by ITT All-Stars, Feminista Jones, writer and activist, and Jenni Monet, independent journalist and tribal member of the Pueblo of Laguna. They discuss the latest with the 2020 election and the erasure of POC and Indigenous organizing within the Global Climate Strike and the UN Climate Summit. They also talk pop culture and break down the 2019 Emmys. ITT Staff Picks: Listen to the full Latino USA interview with Bernie SandersThe climate movement needs to make teens of color feel more welcome, via ViceEmmys 2019: Few Latinos Nominated, But One Historic Win on TV’s Biggest Night, via RemezclaFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A shocking rise in anti-Semitic incidents in New York City has been going on over the past couple of years. New numbers are in and it is worse than ever. Would you be surprised to learn that, according to Department of Justice statistics, a whopping 43% of all federal offenses are committed by non-citizens? Sadly, as then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it last year, every single crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a readily preventable crime. Try telling that to Washington state. Jenni Monet, a self-styled “award-winning journalist” and Native American activist, claimed she was racially profiled both at a liquor store and by responding police officers and was the victim of police brutality. But released surveillance video from the night of her arrest shows a somewhat different story.

A shocking rise in anti-Semitic incidents in New York City has been going on over the past couple of years. New numbers are in and it is worse than ever. Would you be surprised to learn that, according to Department of Justice statistics, a whopping 43% of all federal offenses are committed by non-citizens? Sadly, as then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions put it last year, every single crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a readily preventable crime. Try telling that to Washington state. Jenni Monet, a self-styled “award-winning journalist” and Native American activist, claimed she was racially profiled both at a liquor store and by responding police officers and was the victim of police brutality. But released surveillance video from the night of her arrest shows a somewhat different story.

May 2, 2019 Finally, Keri takes the reigns and is in charge! She and Carter discuss the race narcissist / journalist Jenni Monet, police body cams, mass delusion, and: Clinton, China, Possible Collusion. Clinton, China, Possible Collusion. Clinton, China, Possible Collusion. YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/XTmOOV_w2uw

May 2, 2019 Finally, Keri takes the reigns and is in charge! She and Carter discuss the race narcissist / journalist Jenni Monet, police body cams, mass delusion, and: Clinton, China, Possible Collusion. Clinton, China, Possible Collusion. Clinton, China, Possible Collusion. YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/XTmOOV_w2uw

Air Date: 4/16/2019 Today we take a look at just a few of the aspects of modern life for Native Peoples that we can see as stemming from the racism and colonialism that has been endemic in post-contact America. This episode is fourth in an ongoing series focusing on Native Peoples in North America. Previous episodes are, in order, #1216 on Christopher Columbus, #1230 on Thanksgiving and #1252 on Westward Expansion. Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991   Episode Sponsors: Madison-Reed.com+ Promo Code: Left Amazon USA| Amazon CA| Amazon UK| Clean Choice Energy Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content: Support our show on Patreon! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: American Indians Confront “Savage Anxieties” - Moyers and Company - Air Date 12-26-14 Bill speaks with Robert A. Williams Jr., a professor specializing in American Indian law, about how deals such as the one with Rio Tinto are a part of American Indian’s tragic history of dispossession. Ch. 2: What we inherit: Explaining intergenerational trauma - Code Switch - Air Date 6-6-18 The story of one family's struggle to end a toxic cycle of inter-generational trauma from forced assimilation. Getting back to their Native Alaskan cultural traditions is key. Ch. 3: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide - @Making_Contact - Air Date 11-26-13 Andrea Smith, author of “Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide” explains the connection between violence against women, and the colonization of native lands and bodies. Ch. 4: The legal structures that uphold violence against Indigenous people #MMIW - Let's Talk Native... with John Kane - Air Date 2-14-19 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is a major issue because of racism. Acquittals for murdering Native people occur because of racism. Racism is systemic, historic and the norm in the US and Canada. Ch. 5: End the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Crisis: Tell Congress to Pass #SavannasAct, #SURVIVEAct & Reauthorize #VAWA Take action! Click the title and/or scroll down for quick links and resources from this segment. Ch. 6: Jenni Monet on Indigenous Journalism - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 1-24-19 Corporate media’s lack of interest in indigenous issues, and their ahistorical, distorted view of them when they do cover them, are long overdue for a change. Ch. 7: Beyond Tragedy: The living history of Native America - Ideas from CBC Radio - Air Date 2-20-19 This idea of history as tragedy is something that Ojibwe writer David Treuer tries to undo in The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee. He argues that Indigenous peoples have always found ways to adapt, and that's exactly what they're doing now. VOICEMAILS Ch. 8: Disagreeing on arguments against a female presidential candidate - Stacy from San Francisco Bay Area FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 9: Final comments sharing some voices of Native people giving their perspective on the burning of Notre Dame cathedral TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to Pass/Reauthorize: Savanna's Act SURVIVE Act Violence Against Women Act Learn more at MontanaMMIW.com& on Twitter: #MMIW #MMIWG EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE A missing sweater tells the story of missing Indigenous women(Indian Country Today) Savanna's Act is Back (Splinter) States weigh bills addressing Native deaths, disappearances(AP) House Passes Bill Protecting Domestic Abuse Victims; GOP Split Over Gun Restrictions(NPR) Montana Senate Betrays Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Splinter) Tester reintroduces “Securing Urgent Resources Vital to Indian Victim Empowerment” Act(KRTV) Lisa Murkowski Revives Bill Targeting Missing And Murdered Native Women(Huffington Post) Researched & written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman  MUSIC(Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Gullwing Sailor - Migration Cicle Veroni - Cicle Kadde Cloud Line - K4 Slow Lane Lover - Barstool This fickle world - Theo Bard Minutes - Pacha Faro Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent Episode Image:Slowking4 via commons.wikimedia.org   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon Listen on iTunes | Stitcher| Spotify| Alexa Devices| +more Check out the BotL iOS/AndroidApp in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunesand Stitcher!

This week, Trump said he’s considering sending migrants to sanctuary cities. Maria and Julio are joined by two All-Stars, Jenni Monet, independent journalist and tribal member of the Pueblo of Laguna, and Brentin Mock, staff writer for City Lab, to discuss Trump's latest use of immigrants as political pawns. They also talk about the burning of three black churches in Louisiana, the latest attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar, and how the U.S. justice system impacts people of color.ITT Staff Picks:This piece from The New Yorker on how to resist validating Trump's view of sanctuary cities.Here’s what you need to know about the three black church fires, via The Cut.Read this opinion piece from NBC Think on why Rep. Omar’s comments spark false outrage and anti-Muslim bias. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Corporate media's lack of interest in indigenous issues, and their ahistorical, distorted view of them when they do cover them, are long overdue for change.

On this All-Star roundtable, we talk about the midterms (still!) in Florida and Georgia, the latest in immigration news and we take a look at the tragic California wildfires. Maria and Julio are joined by two In The Thick All-Stars: independent journalist Jenni Monet and contributor to The New York Times Wajahat Ali. ITT Staff PicksCalifornia is using slave labor to fight the fires, according to The Root.From Buzzfeed News, this is the reality of LGBTQ members of the caravan.Jenni's latest with the LA Times, on the new legislation that is trying to end violence against indigenous women.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The #MMIWG (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) movement has been gaining momentum in the U.S. and Canada, as Indigenous women call for an end to targeted violence. Maria and Julio speak about this widespread issue with Annita Lucchesi, a Southern Cheyenne cartographer who has built the largest database of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and Jenni Monet, an independent journalist and tribal member of the Pueblo of Laguna. ITT Staff Picks The Intercept on how politicians are only now starting to pay attention to the missing Indigenous women.Annita Lucchesi's work: How a database is tracking the disappeared indigenous women (from Bustle).Jenni Monet's article for PBS, linking the women's march and to Indigenous women's rights.Check out CBC's Missing and Murdered podcast series, where Indigenous investigative reporter Connie Walker documents the stories of the community. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The #NoDAPL movement has now spread to fight other pipeline projects like Enbridge’s Line 3 and Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion. Iron Eyes, a former United States Congressional candidate, award winning journalist Jenni Monet and Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas Muller join host Dennis Ward on InFocus to discuss the legacy of the movement and the gathering in Standing Rock, one year after the camps were closed by law enforcement.

Is a new era for Native American media in the United States opening up? Three Native American journalists talk about challenging stereotypes and bringing a nuanced voice to indigenous issues. They belong to a generation that believes in making things happen, despite all the odds, and not waiting for mainstream media to catch on. Native Americans once owned the land in the United States, it was theirs before the white settlers arrived. They are the First People, whom archaeologists believe have been on the North American continent for some 50,000 years. Today they represent less than one percent of the United States’ total population. An estimated 2.7 million tribal citizens associated with 567 federally recognised tribes. Tribal issues hardly make it into the US mainstream media. When people outside the US read, listen or watch news about the country, it is as if America’s First Nation have become a ghost nation. Levi Rickert, the Michigan-based founder, editor and publisher of multimedia news platform Native News Online, says that is primarily due to the size of the Native American population. Kevin Abourezk, who is based in Nebraska where he is the managing editor of Indianz.com, a Native American online news site run by the Winnebago Tribe, believes it is because there are so few Native Americans in mainstream media. Jenni Monet (www.jennimonet.com) is an award winning Native American independent journalist from the Laguna Pueblo tribe. She has been working as a journalist for 19 years, most of it spent covering indigenous issues across the world. Under-reported narrative “There is a serious need for the indigenous narrative. [It] is the most chronically under-reported narrative in mainstream today, not only in the US but around the world,” she says. She points out that out of the hundreds of tribes living in the United States, only a tiny fraction of them attracts the attention of the media: the Lakotas, the Navaho Nation or the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. “It is not a mistake that these tribes are among the most popular in the mainstream because the mainstream goes towards the familiar. They like the poverty out of the Lakotas because it is so blatant. The cyclical nature of it is so raw. They like the Navaho Nation because it is so mystical with medicine-man and the south-west desert… They like the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma because who doesn’t firmly believe they have some ounce of Cherokee ancestry in their family lineage? These sorts of narratives as told by outsiders themselves have just been perpetuated for decades.” For Kevin Abourezk, who is from the Rosebud Lakota tribe, it is often difficult for Native journalists to get editors of non-native media to accept their story ideas. “Editors are acutely aware of who their readers are and [what] they want to read,” he explains. According to Abourezk, in areas where there are a significant number of Native Americans like Gallup, New Mexico or Rapid City, South Dakota, tribal issues will get more coverage. He says it is reflected in publications like the New York Times or smaller ones like the Sioux City Journal. Standing Rock, a reckoning One story that made it to mainstream media around the world was the long protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Thousands of Native Americans, joined by non-Natives, gathered in North Dakota to support the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes in their fight against the pipeline, a 3.8-billion-dollar investment. They say it desecrates sacred grounds and threatens the water quality of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The pipeline carries crude oil beneath their only source of drinking water. Across the globe, videos circulated, showing the violent repression of the protesters by private security guards, riot police and national guards. In their arsenal to deal with demonstrations, they used, among other things, sound cannons, rubber bullets and dog attacks. Jenni Monet covered the story for six consecutive months and was embedded at the Standing Rock reservation for four months, until the end of March 2017. She was arrested and, along with seven other journalists, is still facing charges for criminal trespass and rioting brought by the local Morton County. Why did it take such a violent crackdown for news about Standing Rock to make the headlines? “People were maimed,” remembers Jenni Monet. “People were sent into hypothermic shock after being doused with water on a sub-freezing night in November to the point where legacy media could not simply ignore it anymore. They reported on that story 48 hours later. It takes for brown people to die before it becomes unfortunately headline news.” Monnet says that when the Dakota Access Pipeline protests were happening the story was competing with “one thing and one thing only, Donald Trump”. Based on her own experience, Monet describes the newsrooms obsession with “clickbait”, stories need to pull “the most shares, the most tweets, drive comments from viewers”. “If Standing Rock proved anything, it’s that [tribal] issues aren’t complicated at all. You just need a lot of people to talk about them. Standing Rock is going to continue to be a case study for us when we look at the power of indigenous media. And, for me and my fellow native journalists, we cannot forget those strides and those gains that were made from Standing Rock.” Native American journalism Journalism for Native Americans by Native Americans goes back to the 19th century with the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper founded in 1828. It was written in both English and the Cherokee alphabet created by Sequoyah. “That newspaper was democracy at work … sovereignty at work. It was the tribe itself having a voice and shaping a narrative that otherwise was completely removed from any sort of publication back then,” declares Jenni Monet. The newspaper emerged at a time when the Cherokee Nation was debating what action to take while facing forced relocation from their ancestral land in south-eastern United States. Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Cherokee people were rounded up and forced to relocate to an area west of the Mississippi River designated as Indian Territory. The journey became known as the “trail of tears”. Tribal newspapers are still very popular, according to Kevin Abourezk, and probably the most popular among the various native news platforms. Most tribes of a certain size have a newspaper that they publish and distribute to their members on the reservations. But such media do not cover national issues pertaining to the Indian Country. “Just a handful of websites” will cover, for example, a hearing in Washington related to some law dealing with Indian Trust Land. And that’s a problem for Kevin Abourezk. For Jenni Monet, indigenous media shouldn’t only be for the tribal communities, nor should it only look at “outsiders” as an audience. It should be “somewhere in between”. “What we saw at Standing Rock was this widespread embrace of concepts that editors themselves have often couched as topics too weighty for their listenership to endure. It was amazing to see on CNN, Sara Sidner quote Lakota prophecy. And a segment about treaty rights. These topics are not too complicated. What they are is sorely underreported.” Making their voice heard “It’s our time to tell our stories,” declares Levi Rickert, who is from the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. He deplores the way in which Native Americans are portrayed in the US media. And that’s one of the reasons he decided to set up Native News Online in 2011. “We are perceived as being conquested people, losers… [associated with] alcoholism, poverty... I try to identify stories that really show the progress and achievements of American Indians and Alaska Natives.” For Rickert, this is a more a calling than a job. “It is almost like a trusteeship given to me by the Creator to really do my part,” he say, “We serve many tribal nations from around the United States. I try to purposefully find writers from around the country that can write about their region, their tribal nation. The non-native media will not always write about our stories, we can certainly do it.” As for Jenni Monet, she opted for the precarious position of being an independent journalist rather than being attached to a particular news organisation in order to have a greater chance of getting her stories about indigenous peoples and their rights movements published. “I’ve worked for some of the biggest brands in the industry and I understand how newsrooms operate. [Being] independent, I can choose many of these decision makers and pitch and pitch and pitch,” declares Jenni Monet, host of the podcast, Still here: Modern stories of resilience, indigenously told. “People are starting to wake up a little and realise that there is a whole vast Indian country out there,” adds Monet. A generation of journalists, whom she describes as front-runners, took the lead in creating a nuanced narrative and paved the way for her generation. “I’m so grateful for writers like Tim Giago, Mark Trahant, Suzan Shown Harjo, Bunty Anquoe and the list can go on.” Kevin Abourezk recently decided to start working full time for the Native news website, Indianz.com. Most of his 18 years as a journalist were spent working for the Lincoln Journal Star, a non-Native daily. “I’ve always wanted to work for native media but I’ve also for a long time felt it was important to reach out to non-Native Americans and trying to educate them about issues facing Native Americans.” Abourezk says that his former editors were great and welcomed his stories. However, they had a preference for a certain type of stories. One of them is White Clay, a small town of 14 people in Nebraska with four liquor stores selling four million cans of beer a year to the Pine Ridge reservation, which has a population of 40,000 people. In September this year Indian Country Today, a prominent newspaper and website, put a stop to its activities after 25 years in business, citing financial constraints. This brought some big changes in the world of Native journalism in America, explained Abourezk, and it was one of the reasons why he decided to move to Indianz.com. “When Indian Country Today decided to shut down … that left a huge vacuum in the world of Native journalism. I felt it was important for Native journalists to step up and fill the vacuum the best we can.” It took two years of incubation before Levi Rickert’s launched Native News Online. A sustainable business model providing independent reporting appears to be a difficult goal to achieve. Rickert says that he is constantly trying to figure out how to make it work on the small Native media scene “It is a struggle. We have to fight for advertising, sponsorships, many times we are marginalized. You just have to get pass the ‘Nos’ and get people to say ‘Yes’. You have to have the tenacity to keep going even when it looks dismal out there.” The words that really encapsulate what the Native American journalists we spoke to are trying to achieve probably come from one Native News Online viewer: “You write how we Indians want to be written about.” Follow Jenni Monet on Twitter @jennimonet Follow Kevin Abourezk on Twitter @Kevin_Abourezk Follow Levi Rickert on Twitter @Native_NewsNet Follow Zeenat Hansrod on Twitter @zxnt Sound editor: Alain Bleu Music by Raye Zaragoza (In the river) and Camp Pueblo Singers (Water is life)

October 16, 2017 - The Cherokee Freedman - One of the little explored parts of our history is the enslavement of African-descended people by the Native American nations known as the Five Civilized Tribes. In August 2017, after years of legal battles, a lawsuit was won by the descendants of some of these slaves, called the Cherokee Freedman, which allows them full citizenship in the Cherokee nation. We talk with Jenni Monet, Marilynn Vann, Jon Velie, and Perline Boyattia.

The press is under constant attack by the Trump administration and the role of the media is questioned regularly. In a time of "fake news" accusations, what can journalists do to protect our craft? This week on Generation Justice, we speak with Jenni Monet and Mari Blanca Robles Lopez, two journalists who take different approaches to their storytelling on movements in different parts of the world.

In December I went to Standing Rock to report for DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Non-Profit Journalism. The experience I had there opened my eyes to a history I had been ignorant to. This episode delves into some of the narratives rarely discussed in regards to Standing Rock; media representation and the erasure of indigenous cultures. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier talks land rights, Jade Begay of Indigenous Rising Media discusses erasure in media and Jenni Monet delves into what's happening now at Standing Rock and her arrest while working as a Freelance Journalist.

  The last time I talked about the protests at Standing Rock, ND, there was a victory of sorts: the Army Corps of Engineers had denied easement to build the Dakota Access Pipeline… Continue reading →

Dave and Pete discuss why it matters that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer allows friendly outlets to ask questions at press briefings. CJR correspondent Corey Hutchins calls in to discuss fake news at the local level. And freelance journalist Jenni Monet, who was arrested while reporting at Standing Rock, joins to discuss coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Thanks for kicking it with us as we worked through technical difficulties this week. Like Sean Spicer, we're learning on the job.

Photo from jennimonet.com. (Her name is misspelled in the photo.) On February 8th, the Army Corps of Engineers approved the permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River. This is an interview with Jenni Monet, an independent journalist who's been embedded at Standing Rock since the first week of December. She was arrested February 1st along with 75 protestors/water protectors. Her many news reports and the account of her arrest are at jennimonet.com. Donate

Photo from jennimonet.com. (Her name is misspelled in the photo.) On February 8th, the Army Corps of Engineers approved the permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River. This is an interview with Jenni Monet, an independent journalist who's been embedded at Standing Rock since the first week of December. She was arrested February 1st along with 75 protestors/water protectors. Her many news reports and the account of her arrest are at jennimonet.com. Donate

Jenni Monet’s arrest covering Standing Rock puts the institutions of journalism on trial. The First Amendment is supposed to protect all journalists. Yet in North Dakota there hasn’t even been a news story. Those who claim the First Amendment must object loudly.

Welcome to Still Here:  Modern Stories of Resilience, Indigenously Told. In this preview episode, host Jenni Monet is at the Sacred Stone Camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation where thousands of people have gathered from across Indian Country and the Indigenous world to fight a pipeline.  It's also where Still Here symbolically launches its first pilot episode. Over the course of the next several weeks, we'll take you to places where leaders, thinkers, and everyday doers are confronting life's dilemmas in their own indigenous way. The movement building at Standing Rock is just one example of what you can expect to hear on the podcast.   Listen and subscribe now and be sure to check out the website at stillherepodcast.com