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Anna V. Smith
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Associate Editor Indigenous affairs desk. Member: / Website: annavsmith.com
Pacific Northwesttinyurl.com/HCN-storiesJoined May 2014

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I’m so honored to take over as president of NAJA, which has been such an important part of my life and career. And I’m thrilled that it’s because of how much we are expanding as an organization. Wado to our members and the rest of the board for believing in me.
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🚨 @FrancineCompton joins @najournalists staff as associate director; @grahambrewer fills presidency - tinyurl.com/NAjournos
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James Cameron can do the “research” and hire Indigenous film legends, but he can’t escape who he is: a filmmaker who told the Guardian that his inspiration for the first Avatar were the Lakota "because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society."
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Put this on your required reading lists, journos! I'm so excited for this book that since Oct 1st I've been hitting refresh for the second this book drops. Can't wait to require this text here to my Montana Native News Honors Project class this spring!
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Writing a journalism textbook is a thing I've wanted to do for a long time. It's finally happened. 'Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting In Indigenous Communities' will be available from @OUPCanada this fall. pages.oup.com/he/can/mccue1ce Let me tell you a l'il bit about it.
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Really excited for another term as Vice President alongside President . And congrats to on her re-election and to our newest board members and !
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@grahambrewer and @FrancineCompton share their NAJA journeys and how it’s felt “like a big family”. ⁣ ⁣ I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to meet such amazing people and gain so much knowledge that inspires me to keep writing. ⁣ #najf22 #naja #nnmc2022
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. wanted today's Tier 2 shortage declaration to look like they were coming down hard on the states. But they did not. This shortage was spelled out in agreements signed in 2007 and 2019. It was expected. For months. No federal hammer was dropped.
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NEWS: Colorado River Basin states fail to meet federal deadline to submit plans to get to 2-4 maf in conservation. Absent state agreement, the federal government is also not detailing how it plans to achieve that unprecedented level of conservation needed to protect reservoirs.
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20 years ago today, the Chinook Nations federal status was revoked. They continue to fight for recognition today. “We just need them to honor the treaty our ancestors signed.” Feature by from 2021:
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After years & years of Indigenous people, and Indigenous journalists, asking NPR to stop reading this document every year, they finally put a stop to it. For the first time in over 30 years, Native listeners don’t have to wake up today and hear an NPR host call them a slur.
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This July 4th we break with tradition. Instead of a reading of the Declaration of Independence @NPRinskeep examines what equality means and has meant in this document. Important segment about our past and future...produced by @marcarivers and @bgordemer npr.org/2022/07/04/110
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"I would not trust this Court much at all, but that’s been true for the entire history of the U.S. What makes this Court worse, however, is the extremity of its radicalism and lack of discipline." on #SCOTUS & #CastroHuerta implications
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Hard to overstate what a radical step this would be, given that many swing-state legislatures are gerrymandered in ways that self-perpetuate GOP control. Would decimate checks and balances.
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The Supreme Court has granted cert to Moore v. Harper (the "independent state legislature doctrine" case), meaning it will decide next term whether state legislatures (and not courts) have sole jurisdiction over election law.
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I spoke to several federal Indian law experts and tribal leaders in the wake of yesterday's SCOTUS decision, and they expressed deep concern about what the decision means for tribal sovereignty across Indian country.
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