- Tim Giago
Tim Giago (born 1934) is an American Oglala Sioux who is from the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota . He founded the first independently owned Indian newspaper in the United States.In 1979, his "Notes from Indian Country" in the
Rapid City, South Dakota "Journal" became the first Indian voice in a South Dakota newspaper. In 1981, he began the "Lakota Times". In 1998, he sold the paper (now called "Indian Country Today " to theOneida Nation . Over the years that he ran the paper, a number of native Americans who worked for him later became successful in journalism. During his writing and publishing career, Giago has won the H. L. Menken Award, the University of Missouri Distinguished Journalism Award, and a Harvard University Neiman Fellowship.ources
*Carrier, Jim. "An American Original," "San Francisco Chronicle, Insight", pp. F1-2 (December 23, 2007).
External links
* [http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A201 Native American Authors]
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