Lisa Jones

The White Media Kills Again and Again

Recently, in a photo essay entitled, “Here's what life is like on the notorious Wind River Indian Reservation,” the online Business Insider gave a tour of the sprawling central Wyoming home of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes....

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April 17, 2013

Lay of the Land: American Indians and the Mass Media, From Stereotypes to Advances

Mark Fogarty
June 24, 2012
American Indians and the Mass Media (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012), edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez, is a scholarly work indeed...
Ungelbah Daniel-Davila

Media Continues to Exclude Native Voice

Media, for many indigenous peoples of this country, continues to be a double-edged sword, with a history containing moments of both immense pride and interminable consequences....

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December 28, 2011

Covering the Crisis: Can Mainstream Media Attention Help Attawapiskat Long-Term?

Martha Troian
December 21, 2011
Not long ago, few had even heard of Attawapiskat. It's a remote First Nation community that has gone from relative obscurity to being the center of a media storm...

San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians Gets the Message Out with Television Advertising

ICTMN Staff
May 13, 2011
The San Manuel band of Serrano Mission Indians, located in Highland, California near San Bernardino, have for years been producing educational commercials (see them on the tribe's ...

Ryan Red Corn Explains "Smiling Indians"

ICTMN Staff
March 07, 2011
Ryan Red Corn (Osage) and his accomplice, the filmmaker Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek), had a simple idea: A short film showing Indians who are smiling...

Indians to HuffPo: What About Us?

Rob Capriccioso
February 01, 2011
On the news that the Huffington Post website is planning to launch a section for African American topics, Native Americans are asking the popular mainstream blog and news site to c...

Indians to Arianna Huffington: What About Us?

Rob Capriccioso
January 21, 2011
On the news that the Huffington Post website is planning to launch a section for African American topics , Native Americans are asking the popular mainstream blog and news site to ...

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