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Valerie Vande Panne

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Covering Indigenous Communities — Tips for Non-Native Journalists

Journalism is inherently extractive. Especially when it comes to covering the coveted, so-called “marginalized communities.” On these assignments, the reporter asks…

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25 Feb 2023

Papa Noel airing on PBS this December

Excited to announce Papa Noel, a documentary I helped produce, is airing on PBS in Louisiana this December. If you’re…

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14 Nov 2021

As Floods Become More Frequent, Climate Change Threatens Seminole Tribe of Florida

Valholly Frank is 18 years old. She grew up in South Florida, spending her time between the Big Cypress Reservation,…

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13 Jul 2021

Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists

Grateful to say I won the 2021 Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists Award for Transportation Reporting. It’s my first award…

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30 May 2021

Indigenous Foods Day

It’s Time to Rename Thanksgiving Most people in North America do not know it was Abraham Lincoln who created the…

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10 Jan 2021

Reflecting on the Maine-Wabanaki Child Welfare TRC Commission Five Years Later

The Wabanaki is both the People and the Place of First Light. Collectively they are the tribes: Maliseet,  Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy,…

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7 Nov 2020

What Truth and Reconciliation Looks Like in Practice

Black Lives Matter protests have continued for months, in the wake of what feels like endless police violence. In fact,…

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7 Nov 2020

Trading for the Future by Remembering Our Past

At the Minneapolis American Indian Center, chef Brian Yazzie (Diné, Navajo) serves about 200 meals a day to the community’s…

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31 Aug 2020

Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?

We are midway through 2020, and struggling through a pandemic-fueled economic crash exacerbated by the federal government’s inadequate “stimulus” efforts.…

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14 Jul 2020

To Combat Widespread Job Loss, Stay Local & Look to Import Replacement

Amid the grim reality of COVID-19, one of the rare feel-good storylines has been a local business that changes its…

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21 Apr 2020

Why Hospitals Are Building Housing

As U.S. coronavirus infections rolled past 30,000 this weekend, approximately one in four Americans is under some kind of order…

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27 Mar 2020

Cities Are Cutting the Salt from their Winter Road Diets

If you live in a place with both cars and snow, chances are you’ve witnessed first hand the annual salting…

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3 Feb 2020
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