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WKC Blog Launches Native American Blog

March 10, 2005

This week, we helped one of our clients, the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, to launch its first (of many?) blog:

WKC Blog: Covering Indian Country

The blog is designed to “illustrate and promote best practices for media coverage of ‘Indian Country’ by highlighting examples of well-written or effectively produced stories and discussing issues that affect Native Americans.”

It’s a co-authored blog by the many savvy participants in a week-long journalism seminar.  As the blog says: “You will hear from journalists who cover Indian Country and from sources who are covered by those journalists.  You will hear the personal stories and read the published stories of those enriched by the time spent there.”

There’s already a dozen posts, including one with great photographs, and another with some exclusive news about John McCain and his views on Indian gambling—McCain spoke with the seminar participants.

For this project, we provided the templating, the design, integration with the existing site database, an RSS feed, some server tweaking and some general blogging advice.  They’re doing the hard part—writing it! Good luck and have fun, WKC folk!

Posted by Travis Smith at 3:57 AM

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I am currently writing a law review paper on the ability of parents to determine the guardians for their indian children upon parents death.  This may be better explained in a hypothetical. 

J and B are husband and wife.  J is 100% indian.  B is not indian.  J and B give birth to E who is 50% indian.  J and B die simultaneously.  Their will designates B’s parents to become the guardians of E.

Does it make a difference if the child and/or parent is or is not registered with the tribe?

Does this designation implicate intervention of the IWCA?

What if J’s parents want guardianship over the child?  Because his parents are native american, would their interests be given preference over the specified interests of J. and B.?

What if only J. dies, could his parents seek to remove E. from B’s custody if B decides to not raise E with native american traditions and customs?

Any assistance with these questions would be more than helpful!!!  Thanks!

By Ami on Jan 12, 2007

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