Anna V. Smith

@annavtoriasmith

Ted Scripps Fellow , on leave from Indigenous affairs desk. Member: / Website:

Pacific Northwest
Joined May 2014

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    Sep 24

    "Time immemorial," means exactly that. My first written piece for High Country News, on the frustration of only seeing Indigenous truths become American facts when colonialist institutions say so.

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    Jul 23

    Since I’m the only Indigenous person in the academic spaces I navigate, I’m always asked about land acknowledgements. So here are my common responses bc I try to keep in mind that everyone uses their “only X friend” to justify their racism at times. 🧵

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    Jul 14

    NEW: California officials tell CNN they anticipate nearly all salmon in the Sacramento River will die due to abnormally hot underwater conditions as heat waves continue.

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    Jul 9

    Happy 40th birthday, Indian Country Today! ICT was first created as the Lakota Times by Oglala Lakota journalist Tim Giago. I am extremely thankful for the visionary and persistent Native journalists who paved the path before me.

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    Jul 3

    My favorite thing about reading the Declaration of Independence every 4th of July is when they read the bit about "merciless Indian savages," then spend the rest of the year wondering how to do better coverage in Indian Country. It's time to end to this laughable tradition.

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    Jul 1

    Some News: After many (many) conversations with my partner, colleagues, trusted advisors, random strangers, and my cats, I am extremely excited to announce that I will be joining High Country News () as its next Indigenous Affairs desk editor.

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    Jun 25

    The first case of the Delta variant on Navajo Nation has been reported. It was reported that the variant was located in the Northern Agency of Navajo Nation.

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    Jun 25

    As a daughter of an IRS survivor and a media scholar, I’ve been thinking a lot about this since 2019 report came out, wrote about it in a 2020 book, and said so to recently

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    Jun 24

    Newsrooms/editors: This is the tip of the boarding school iceberg. How you frame headlines, stories and photographs matter. Don't add to Indigenous trauma with bad reporting. It is time to create Tribal Affairs Desks and hire journalists who are experts in Indigenous issues.

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    Jun 24

    The report by changed so many of us forever - now I am working through the NAISA dedicated issue to the report & the articles/work on for my research - all should be mandatory reading for anyone in Higher Ed.

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  11. Jun 24

    "That it took the first Native Interior secretary to initiate such a review seems less a mark of progress and more an indictment of the apathy of those who came before her." Words you should read by

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    Jun 23

    PLS RT: The PDX area is bracing for record-breaking heat. In response, MultCo will open cooling centers from 6/25 to at least 6/28 at: ▪️Oregon Convention Center: 777 NE MLK Jr Blvd ▪️Sunrise Center: 18901 E Burnside St ▪️Arbor Lodge: 1952 N Lombard St

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  13. Jun 23

    Excited to say I'll be taking leave from for 9 months as of August to participate in the Ted Scripps Fellowship at Center for Environmental Journalism alongside , & ! Thank you for the opportunity !

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  14. Jun 23

    Trying to stay calm about the fact I happened to choose this weekend out of 365 days in a year to move across the West, during a historic heatwave of back-to-back 100+ degree days..... in June.

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    Jun 21

    one of the reasons the racial makeup of beltway reporting remains so white is bc the type of source relationships you're expected to maintain

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    Jun 22

    JUST IN: The Department of Interior is launching the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, an investigation that will aim to identify past boarding school sites, burial sites and locations, Secretary Haaland announced at the NCAI conference Tuesday.

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    Jun 17

    BREAKING: FERC has approved the transfer of four dam licenses on the Klamath River from PacifiCorp to the Klamath River Renewal Corporation. The renewal of the four dams is now one step closer to reality

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    Jun 10

    Some weekend reading for you: 🧵 A broken system: Why COVID-19’s impact on Indigenous communities is impossible to know

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    Jun 9

    BREAKING: The Keystone XL pipeline project has been terminated by TC Energy. This is a developing story.

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    Jun 4

    It's not JUST about trauma-informed reporting, it's about inherent responsibilities as storytellers and self-location. It's about asking ourselves hard questions before accepting a story, with the most important question being: Is this my story to tell?

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