Author

Tim Giago

Tim Giago, a 1991 Nieman Fellow, is the publisher of Native Sun News Today and founder of Indian Country Today (originally Lakota Times), the first independently owned Native American weekly newspaper. Giago, a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, is the founder and past president of the Native American Journalists Association.

“If you come out to Indian Country to write about us, do your damned homework”

“If you come out to Indian Country to write about us, do your damned homework”

The television cameras were all packed away and stuffed into the trunks of the rental cars.  Notebooks were crammed into briefcases and alongside the cameras, packed in rental cars headed…
July 2, 2019
Tim Giago, NF ’91

Tim Giago, NF ’91

Giago founded the Lakota Times (now Indian Country Today), the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the U.S. I first entered Walter Lippmann House filled with fear and anticipation.…
September 18, 2013

Freedom of the Press in Indian Country

At its creation, the Lakota Times ‘became the only independently owned Indian weekly publication in America.’
September 15, 2005

Respecting Cultural Traditions in a Newsroom

At the Lakota Times, editors help reporters blend their language and ceremonies into their work.
June 15, 2005