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Greg Bombeck's avatar

I believe Howard Rock published the first Native American newspaper, The Tundra Times, in 1962.

He brought the diverse Native populations in Alaska together to stop the feds from setting off an atomic bomb in Western Alaska in order to create a deep water port . A peacetime application of nuclear energy, they said. What could possible go wrong...

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DemonHunter's avatar

The Cherokee Phoenix started printing in 1828

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Philip Lewis's avatar

The street signs in Talequah are still printed in both English and Cherokee. At least last time I was there.

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DemonHunter's avatar

Fascinating people.

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Philip Lewis's avatar

Right on.

"Tim Giago, who founded the first Native American–run newspaper in the country."

I have my doubts about this. My recollection from my Oklahoma History class in 8th grade is that Sequoyah had a newspaper printed in Cherokee alphabet that he invented some 150 years prior.

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