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Remembering trailblazing journalist Tim Giago

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Tim Giago, who started some of the first Native American newspapers, including The Lakota Times, died Sunday at 88. He spent decades building a media landscape by and for Native people.

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One of the nation's most prominent Native American journalists has died. Tim Giago spent decades building a media landscape by and for Native people. South Dakota Public Broadcasting's Lee Strubinger reports.

LEE STRUBINGER, BYLINE²: Tim Giago was a trailblazing journalist who got his start in journalism³ during the Korean War when a commanding officer saw him typing.

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TIM GIAGO: Pretty soon, he came over. And he said, you know, the editor of the base paper is being transferred to another station. So he said, you're now the new editor. That's how I got my start in journalism.

STRUBINGER: Giago, who is Oglala Lakota, brought his newsgathering skills back to the Pine Ridge⁴ Reservation, population 35,000. He started his first newspaper there in 1981.

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GIAGO: I felt we needed to have something that would provide information and report the happenings in the schools, in the tribal⁵ governments and in places that weren't being reported upon. So that's the main reason I started.

STRUBINGER: Giago started three newspapers in four decades. Mark Trahant edits one, Indian Country Today. He says Giago leaves behind an extraordinary legacy⁶.

MARK TRAHANT: I mean, he took on subjects that are now really well-known. But when he started, they weren't.

STRUBINGER: Giago wrote extensively about Indian boarding schools. In 2021, he spoke⁷ about being a student assigned to dig another's grave.

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GIAGO: We were about five feet down. And I hit something with my pick. And when I lifted it up over my head, it was a little child's skull⁸. These were just some of the things that happened in this day in the schools here that I think have been totally overlooked.

STRUBINGER: Giago long advocated for the United States to reckon with its boarding school legacy. Last year, the U.S. Department of Interior launched an investigation⁹ into that 150-year history, saying boarding schools were part of a policy of genocide and erasure¹⁰ of Native cultures. Giago died in a hospital in Rapid City. He was 88 years old.

For NPR News, I'm Lee Strubinger in Rapid City.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

4 ridge   

n.山脊；鼻梁；分水岭

参考例句：

• We clambered up the hillside to the ridge above.我们沿着山坡费力地爬上了山脊。
• The infantry were advancing to attack the ridge.步兵部队正在向前挺进攻打山脊。

5 tribal   

adj.部族的，种族的

参考例句：

• He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
• The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。

6 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

7 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

8 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。

9 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

10 erasure   

n.擦掉，删去；删掉的词；消音；抹音

参考例句：

• The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth. 过去给人擦拭个干净，擦拭的行为又忘了个干净，于是，谎言就变成了真理。 来自英汉文学
• The inspection, modification, replacement or erasure of part of file's contents. 检查、修改、代替或擦去文档内容一部分的过程。 来自互联网