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Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Navajo Nation leaders should be commended for freeing The Navajo Times of tribal oversight, Editor and Publisher says in an editorial.

On October 23, the council voted 66-1 to turn the paper into an independent corporate entity. "It will be, no doubt, the first of other great moments throughout Indian country, where a journalistic Trail of Tears of tribal and self-censorship is at last coming to an end for Native American newspapers," E&P says.

But that same week, the Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho fired the editor of Sho-Ban News for unflattering coverage of the tribal council. "Council Chairman Fred Auck was continuing a long and shameful tradition of tribal government interference with Native journalism when he fired long-time Editor Lori Edmo-Suppah, the treasurer of the Native American Journalists Association, because the paper was reporting both sides of the bitter recall campaign against him," E&P says.

Get the Story:
Native Press Ungagged (Editor and Publisher 11/5)

Relevant Links:
Navajo Times - http://www.navajotimes.com
Sho-Ban News - http://www.shobannews.com

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