Autobiography of indian journalists in america
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Autobiography of indian journalists in america
Tim Giago
American journalist (1934–2022)
Timothy Antoine Giago Jr. (July 12, 1934 – July 24, 2022), also known as Nanwica Kciji, was an American Oglala Lakota journalist and publisher.
In 1981, he founded the Lakota Times with Doris Giago at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he was born and grew up. It was the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States. In 1991 Giago was selected as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
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In 1992 he changed his paper's name to Indian Country Today, to reflect its national coverage of Indian news and issues.
Giago sold the paper in 1998. Two years later he founded The Lakota Journal, which he sold in 2004 while thinking of retirement.
In 2009, he returned to papers and founded the Native Sun News, based in Rapid City, South Dakota. He was also a columnist for the Huffington Post. He founded the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and served as its first president.
When hired in 1979