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Tsanavi Spoonhunter

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Green Bay, San Francisco
As seen in: Atlas Obscura, Mission Local, Indian Country Today, Indian Country Today (ICT)
Covers:  Indian Country, Politics, Tribal Politics, Indigenous Rights, Human Rights
Nonfiction Storyteller /// Northern Arapaho & Northern Paiute

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Tsanavi Spoonhunter’s Biography

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Tsanavi Spoonhunter is a Northern Arapaho and Northern Paiute nonfiction writer and freelance journalist. Her articles have been published on national news outlets and local publications.

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How to Stock Your Pantry With Native American Foods From Across the Continent

How to Stock Your Pantry With Native American Foods From Across the Continent

When Ben Jacobs was a child, his parents launched a business in downtown Denver, Colorado. Grayhorse: An Amer…

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Keeping a roof over their heads

Keeping a roof over their heads

ETHETE, Wyoming - Pamela Lock was running out of options. She'd been a school bus driver on the Wind River Re…

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Rent-controlled tenants claim harassment, neglect from Veritas Investments

Rent-controlled tenants claim harassment, neglect from Veritas Investments

Penny Schoner, 84, lived happily in the one-bedroom apartment she'd had since the 1980s. That changed in 2012…

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The 'RV People' Community of De Wolf Street

The 'RV People' Community of De Wolf Street

This is part of a collaboration with UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism to look at inequality in the…

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Video: Alcatraz, 50 years later Native youth mark anniversary

Video: Alcatraz, 50 years later Native youth mark anniversary

November marks 50 years since a group of American Indians took over Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay.…

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Native women in leadership share 'common struggles'

Native women in leadership share 'common struggles'

Below is a transcript of the video. (SOUND BITE OF SUSAN MASTEN SPEAKING AT THE CONFERENCE) SUSAN MASTEN: I r…

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How to Stock Your Pantry With Native American Foods From Across the Continent

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By Tsanavi Spoonhunter
| Atlas Obscura Verified
Everything from cornmeal to women-produced coffee beans is just a click away. When Ben Jacobs was a child, his parents launched a business in downtown Denver, Colorado. Grayhorse: An American Indian Eatery, was the first of its kind. But two years into the venture, the family closed the restaurant and moved on. Decades later, the memories of Grayhorse’s mission inspired Jacobs and his business partner, Matt Chandra, to launch their own restaurant in Denver in 2008.
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Keeping a roof over their heads

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By Tsanavi Spoonhunter
| Indian Country Today (ICT)
Tsanavi Spoonhunter Special to Indian Country Today ETHETE, Wyoming — Pamela Lock was running out of options. She’d been a school bus driver on the Wind River Reservation when the pandemic hit. Her son was away at college but was sent home because of the shutdown. Her household bills and his apartment lease continued to pile up. “If kids don’t go to school, I don’t work,” Lock, Northern Arapaho, told Indian Country Today.
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Across the Nation, a Native American Coffee Movement Is Brewing

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By Tsanavi Spoonhunter
| Atlas Obscura Verified
In a northeastern neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, a small coffeehouse stands covered with pictures of bison. For centuries here, on the land of the Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Clackamas peoples, there have been no bison. But Bison Coffeehouse still pays tribute to the animal that sustained Native American communities across the country. Inside, Native American art adorns the space, centered around a mounted buffalo head.
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