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Giago carved out a lasting legacy
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Native Sun News Today Managing Editor
RAPID CITY, South Dakota — Tim Giago wore many hats in his long, eventful life. He was a son, a brother, an uncle, a grandfather, a sailor, a poet, a businessman, an entrepreneur, a talk show host, a journalist, an editor, an author, and a publisher. He was also a stickler for journalistic professionalism, and he would tell writers never to refer to the subjects of a story by anything but their surnames, but it is fitting to break from that maxim, now that his life story has come full circle.
Tim entered the spirit world on Sunday, July 24, at the age of 88.
Tim will be remembered for starting the first Indian owned and operated independent newspaper, the Lakota Times, in 1981; for starting the Native American Journalists Association in 1983; for winning the coveted H.L. Mencken Award in 1985 for his editorial writing, and for shaking hands with the late Governor George Mickelson in 1989 to seal the deal on the Year of Reconciliation, which led to the very first Native American Day in the nation.
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