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Jacqueline Keeler

Portland
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Covers:  energy resource development, native mascots, native americans, tribal sovereignty, indian child welfare act
Pulitzer-nominated Journalist, Author of Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement - Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota. Story ideas? jfkeeler@protonmail.com

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Jacqueline Keeler’s Biography

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Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer and investigative journalist. She is the author of Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands and editor of the anthology The Edge of Morning. Her recent work includes a Pulitzer-nominated investigation for the San Francisco Chronicle and reporting for Mother Jones, The Nation, High Country News, and Yes! Magazine. A frequent media commentator, she has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and Democracy Now. K…

Jacqueline Keeler’s Journalist Portfolio

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ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it's history repeating itself

ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it's history repeating itself

OPINION: For my tribes, the Dakota and Diné people, seeing federal agents disappear people from their communi…

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How Donald Trump is fundamentally perverting what it means to be Native American

How Donald Trump is fundamentally perverting what it means to be Native American

OPINION: "If Trump succeeds in installing a new tribal ally willing to allow him to subvert Native sovereignt…

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Thomas King is No Longer Cherokee, But Refuses to Apologize, Why Not?

Thomas King is No Longer Cherokee, But Refuses to Apologize, Why Not?

Is Pretendianism a Crime? On Monday, noted author Thomas King wrote in an opinion piece in the Globe & Mai…

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Trump wants to 'Make Indians Great Again' - by bringing back slurs to a school gymnasium near you

Trump wants to 'Make Indians Great Again' - by bringing back slurs to a school gymnasium near you

OPINION: "'Not Your Mascot' immediately trended - a powerful testament to the impact of collective action. ..…

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Some children didn't survive the Carlisle Indian School, but my great-grandfather did. Here's his...

Some children didn't survive the Carlisle Indian School, but my great-grandfather did. Here's his...

Carlisle Indian School is now a national monument. My great-grandfather survived the school's horrors, but ne…

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How Trump's impending return changed my view of Thanksgiving and what it means to be Native

How Trump's impending return changed my view of Thanksgiving and what it means to be Native

I used to see in the "First Thanksgiving" story an evil Pilgrim heart that lingered on - and needed to be kil…

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Articles

Interviewing Rozalind Cruz - Sacheen's sister

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By Jacqueline Keeler
| Patreon
We originally scheduled this for January, but after a family emergency required Roz’s immediate attention, we’ve rescheduled for tomorrow at 6 p.m. PDT. This session will provide a vital update on how the family is doing and the fallout from revealing their sister’s identity as a "Pretendian"—a process that has exposed deep truths about both Sacheen and the world at large. We will also be discussing Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s book, Who Gets to Be Indian?
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ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it’s history repeating itself

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By Jacqueline Keeler
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Tear gas is deployed amid protesters near the scene where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on  Jan. 13 in Minneapolis. Adam Gray/AP The attention may largely be off Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Minnesota, but the violent “surge” of agents that drew international headlines for its savagery is ongoing. I was particularly struck by the video of a recent suburban standoff as a woman whose house was surrounded by immigration agents livestreamed the encounter.
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Thomas King is No Longer Cherokee, But Refuses to Apologize, Why Not?

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By Jacqueline Keeler
| Substack
On Monday, noted author Thomas King wrote in an opinion piece in the Globe & Mail that he accepted the evidence and will no longer claim to be Cherokee or Native American. Thomas King is a big deal in Canada but largely unknown in the United States, including in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Notable because he has built a career on his claim to Cherokee ancestry. However, in Canada, he is without a doubt the most famous American Indian there.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I wrote for local newsweekly called The Dark Horse doing movie reviews in high school.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, when I was a kid my parents had an old one in the basement office. It seemed so cool, then!

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email so I can see the ideas of the article clearly laid out. On the phone, I tend to talk too much!

Awards

Native American Journalism Association Media Award

2018 - Best Environmental Coverage

The annual competition recognizes excellence in reporting by Native and non-Native journalists across the US and Canada.

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