Webinar: Reporting in Indigenous Communities

We wanted to provide ample background information for participating journalists in advance of our 2017 Great Bear Institute, not only about the First Nations communities they would be visiting, but the systemic journalistic issues that plague coverage of indigenous peoples and nations as well. We knew we were in no position to speak authoritatively on the subject, so we reached out to two experts: Jess Housty, a Heiltsuk community educator, activist, and writer, and Kelsey Leonard, an indigenous scholar who currently represents the Shinnecock Indian Nation as the Tribal Co-Lead on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body of the U.S. National Ocean Council. They were kind enough to allow us to make the resulting webinar available publicly, as a resource for all journalists striving to coverage indigenous communities more accurately, fairly, and sensitively.