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PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE TO: 1801 Hinman, Room 2225

Mark N. Trahant, a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock tribe, holds the Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska. He has been chairman of the board of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, president of the Native American Journalist Association, a daily newspaper editor, publisher, and columnist, and a TV correspondent.

He was a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting as co-author of a series on federal-Indian policy. He has written a history of American Indian contributions to journalism and The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars, about the legacy of Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Forrest J. Gerard and the campaign for Indian self-determination. He also is a Twitter poet who writes a daily news poem under the handle @newsrimes4lines.

This talk is part of the Northwestern Native American and Indigenous People Lecture Series and is organized by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA), Medill, and IPD.

Refreshments will be provided!