By Hannah Allison
St. Michael Indian School, Arizona
Four students attending the Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop were awarded scholarships funded by the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation Wednesday.
Rae Dawn Cross Dog, Butterfly Heminger, Jodie Henderson and Danielle Neiss will each receive a $1,000 college scholarship.
Cross Dog, 18, Heminger, 18, and Neiss, 17, are students at Flandreau Indian School [...]

By Lennixx-Rodney Lee
T.F. Riggs High School, S.D.
Sarah Welliver has had a camera in her hand since she was 9.
Welliver, 31, was in a military family and moved often across the country. She attended nine different schools and lived in numerous states. During that time she saw things that she couldn’t explain to her friends [...]

By Chassitti Lincoln
Durango High School, CoLo.
If Shannon Shaw Duty had not chosen to become a Journalist, she might have been an activist for Native American rights, particularly for children.
“They need good placement with good families,” Shaw Duty said. “Maybe someday I can help with that.”
A member of the Osage tribe, Shaw Duty [...]

By Wyatt Goggles
Fort Washakie Charter High School, Wyo.
Former CBS news corespondent, Hattie Kauffman, a 30-year veteran in journalism has lots of advice for young journalists.
She said that getting a good foundation in writing and technology is a lot better than having to learn so much on the job like she did.
Being a good [...]

By Joshua Sam
Jones Academy, OK
Warriors, Chiefs and even Redskins, not so bad.
Squaws? Not so good.
Wyatt Goggles, a student at Fort Washakie High School in Wyoming, isn’t’ offended by Indian mascots and team names.
”I just brush it off,” said Goggles, an Eastern Shoshone/Northern Arapaho.
But he met a girl from Boston, whose school’s girls team [...]

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Taylor Yellow Eyes
Todd County High School, South Dakota
The American Indian Journalism Institute (AIJI), a 10-day, diversity-based program at the University of South Dakota is held every summer and is changing the lives of young Native Americans.
“There is a scarce amount of Native American journalist in the United States,” said Jack Marsh, founder of AIJI [...]

#31. Declining number of NA journalists
By Willow Pingree
Fort Washakie High School, Wyoming
The latest census of news employees in the United States shows that the number of Native Americans in mainstream journalism has declined nearly 57% in the past decade.
“Native Americans are the most underrepresented group in this nation’s media,” said Jack Marsh, president of [...]

By Sam Abrahamson-Blaker
Capital High School, Washington
Forty-three Native American students from all over the country came to Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota April 15-19 to learn about journalism through multimedia and writing tools.
The next step will be translating their new-found interest into a career. Students want to know how to choose a college, get [...]

Tyresha Riquelmy-Yankton, Stevens High School, South Dakota
Can journalism make the world a better place? High school sophomore Cheyenne Zephier believes so.
She’s one of 43 Native American students attending the 13th annual Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop.
“I am here because I love the aspect of journalism and how it can change the world for the [...]