Mark Trahant
Mark Trahant is the 20th Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is also a writer, video producer and Twitter poet. Trahant was recently a Kaiser Media Fellow and is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mark is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He is the author of The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars, about Henry Jackson, Forrest Gerard and the campaign for American Indian self-determination.
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The No DAPL Movement: New Shapes, New Fronts
Editor’s note: The following is a guest article by Mark Trahant, originally published at TrahantReports.com. Mark is the Charles R. ...
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The Era of Contraction?
Guest blogger Mark Trahant, a member of Sightline’s board of directors, is a writer, speaker and Twitter poet. He is a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and lives in Fort Hall, Idaho. Trahant’s most recent book is “The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars.”
I drove across the Northwest this past weekend. A 1,700-mile trip from Idaho to Seattle, returning via rural roads in Washington, and freeways in Idaho and Montana. Along the route I looked at places and wondered, how will life change during the Era of Contraction?
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