“Native Americans suffer from chronic misrepresentation and erasure by an established press, which continually fails to acknowledge the Indigenous timeline. This crisis — a word not used enough to describe Native Americans’ efforts against invisibility — is stoked by the stark absence of Indigenous journalists in newsrooms and further complicated by an Indigenous media largely owned by tribal governments and entities.” . . .
“Compared to other colonizing nations with sizeable Indigenous populations — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway — the US lags far behind when it comes to including Indigenous affairs in daily news coverage.”
—Jenni Monet, journalist, “The crisis in covering Indian Country,” Columbia Journalism Review, March 29, 2019. Image: Journalist Jenni Monet at Sacred Stone Camp at the Standing Rock Reservation, after her arrest for covering the Dakota pipeline protest./Terray Sylvester.
• Editorial Comment: Still the invisible people.
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