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Thank you for your donation and support of our Indigenous-led newsroom. I launched Native News Online in Feb. 2011 with the belief that everyone in Indian Country deserves equal access to news and commentary pertaining to them, their relatives and their communities. We have grown over the years, but our goal has always been to make sure that the news on our website is free — and we want to keep it that way, for all readers.  

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Levi Rickert
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Levi "Calm Before the Storm" Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) is the founder, publisher and editor of Native News Online. Rickert was awarded Best Column 2021 Native Media Award for the print/online category by the Native American Journalists Association. He serves on the advisory board of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association. He can be reached at [email protected].

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