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Mark Trahant is the editor-at-large of Indian Country Today, an Indigenous-focused news operation.

Career

Trahant is a former Charles R. Johnson Professor of Journalism at the University of North Dakota. He is a citizen of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association.[1] Trahant is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he chaired the daily editorial board, directed a staff of writers, editors and a cartoonist.[2] He was chairman and chief executive officer at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.[3] He is a former columnist at The Seattle Times and has been publisher of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho; executive news editor of The Salt Lake Tribune; a reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix; and has worked at several tribal newspapers.[2] He was an editor in residence at the University of Idaho. Trahant was a reporter on the PBS series Frontline with a story called "The Silence," about sexual abuse by clergy in Alaska.[4] At the 2004 UNITY conference in Washington, D.C., he asked George W. Bush what the meaning of tribal sovereignty was in the 21st century; Bush replied, "Tribal sovereignty means that. It’s sovereign. You’re a ... you’re a ... you’ve been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity."[5]

Books

Trahant authored The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars in 2010.

He authored Pictures of Our Nobler Selves, a history of American Indian contributions to journalism published by The Freedom Forum in 1996.[6]

He authored a commissioned work, The Whole Salmon, published by Idaho’s Sun Valley Center for the Arts.[7]

He co-authored his most recent book, Lewis & Clark Through Indian Eyes, an anthology edited by Alvin Josephy Jr.[8]

Honors and awards

Trahant, as a co-author of a series on federal Indian policy, was a finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.[2][9] Trahant’s awards and honors include Best Columnist from the Native American Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists, a Ruhl Fellowship, and co-winner of the Heywood Broun Award. He was a 2009-2010 Kaiser Media Fellow.[10][11] In 1995 Trahant was a visiting professional scholar at The Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University. He serves as a Trustee of the Diversity Institute, an affiliate of the Freedom Forum, based in Washington, D.C. Trahant was a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 2005.

Personal life

Trahant lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He is married to Jaynie Parrish.

References

  1. ↑ "nativenewsnetwork.com - This website is for sale! - nativenewsnetwork Resources and Information". Retrieved 7 June 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. 1 2 3 "P-I names Mark Trahant editorial page editor". 31 January 2003. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Archived 2011-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Mark Trahant (Maynard Institute Board Chairman). Retrieved on 2012-06-10.
  4. ↑ FRONTLINE: The Silence. PBS (2011-04-19). Retrieved on 2011-04-26.
  5. ↑ Bush on Native American Issues: "Tribal Sovereignty Means That. It’s Sovereign". Democracy Now! (2004-08). Retrieved on 2011-05-12.
  6. ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6526397-pictures-of-our-nobler-selves Goodreads: Pictures of Our Nobler Selves: a History of Native American Contributions to News Media by Mark N. Trahant. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
  7. ↑ http://artdaily.com/news/8538/The-Whole-Salmon--br--Opens-at-Nevada-Museum#.VXstlM9Viko The Whole Salmon Opens at Nevada Museum. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
  8. ↑ http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/88860/lewis-and-clark-through-indian-eyes-by-edited-by-alvin-m-josephy/ Random Penguin House: NINE INDIAN WRITERS ON THE LEGACY OF THE EXPEDITION. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
  9. ↑ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  10. ↑ http://khn.org/news/091709trahant/ Kaiser Health News. Retrieved on 2015-06-12.
  11. ↑ https://centerwest.org/archives/1948 CenterWest: Mark Trahant bio
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