{"id":26613,"date":"2022-07-25T11:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=26613"},"modified":"2022-07-25T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T15:33:47","slug":"indian-country-today-legacy-tim-giago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today-legacy-tim-giago\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT: The legacy of Tim Giago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cP-ku_226lw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">ICT Video: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/cP-ku_226lw>The legacy of Tim Giago<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h1-responsive\">\u2018Don\u2019t be afraid to stand up\u2019: The legacy of Tim Giago<\/div>\r\n<div><strong>\r\nThe Oglala Lakota journalist \u2018has been a champion of free press in Indigenous communities his entire career and faced challenges, threats and political pressure, but always pushed to bring essential news and information to the people\u2019<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, July 25, 2022<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Jourdan Bennett-Begaye and Mary Annette Pember<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">ICT<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-website\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/\">indiancountrytoday.com<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTim Giago showed no signs of ailment as editor emeritus in May 2022 at his <a href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/>Native Sun News Today<\/a> office in Rapid City, South Dakota. Giago died Sunday morning, nearly two weeks after his 88th birthday.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAt age 87, the longtime journalist was in his element in the busy newsroom, fielding questions from his reporters, while ICT\u2019s national correspondent Mary Annette Pember interviewed him about his time as a student at Holy Rosary Indian boarding school (now named Red Cloud School) on the Oglala Lakota nation in South Dakota.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIrascible and sharp as a tack, he was quick to criticize the current mainstream coverage of Indian boarding schools.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cReporters need to speak directly with survivors who attended these schools rather than relying on secondhand information,\u201d he told ICT.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_indianz-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/18\/native-sun-news-today-fundraiser-started-for-native-journalism-legend-tim-giago\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/17\/timgiago-1.jpg\" alt=\"Native Sun News Today: Fundraiser started for Native journalism legend Tim Giago\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/18\/native-sun-news-today-fundraiser-started-for-native-journalism-legend-tim-giago\/\">\n\t\t\tNative Sun News Today: Fundraiser started for Native journalism legend Tim Giago\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/18\/native-sun-news-today-fundraiser-started-for-native-journalism-legend-tim-giago\/\">\n\t\t\t<p>Lakota journalist and publisher Tim Giago has undergone several surgeries and his family is raising funds to make his home more accessible.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Indianz.Com\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tIndianz.Com\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nGiago described digging a grave for his childhood friend Bozo Richards who died at age 16 from an ear infection at Holy Rosary.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nHe also shared memories of how his little sister was raped by a school janitor and the scores of his classmates who died from alcohol and drug addiction that he believes was exacerbated by traumatic experiences at the school.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nLong before the topic surfaced in the national media Giago was writing about his experiences at Holy Rosary in a 2006 book, \u201cChildren Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nGiago took a lot of heat over the book both from Catholic leaders as well as his own people but in typical fashion, he stuck to his guns, refusing to sugarcoat or walk back any of his reporting.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAccording to Giago, when reporters called the school to verify his past attendance, school leaders claimed he never attended.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today\/timgiagoavislittleeaglebysuzanharjo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26622\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" data-attachment-id=\"26622\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today-legacy-tim-giago\/timgiagoavislittleeaglebysuzanharjo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoAvisLittleEaglebySuzanHarjo.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1050\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TimGiago and Avis Little Eagle\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;TimGiago and Avis Little Eagle&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Giago and Avis Little Eagle at the Lakota Times office. Photo by Suzan Harjo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoAvisLittleEaglebySuzanHarjo-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoAvisLittleEaglebySuzanHarjo.jpg\" alt=\"TimGiago and Avis Little Eagle\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-26622\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Tim Giago and Avis Little Eagle at the Lakota Times office. Photo by Suzan Harjo<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPrior to ICT\u2019s visit with him in Rapid City, however, Pember just spent time in the Catholic Indian boarding school archives kept at Marquette University in Milwaukee. She told him she\u2019d found documentation there of his years at Holy Rosary. He was nonplussed.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cHey I knew I went there despite their claims to the contrary,\u201d he said.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPolitely but firmly he let Pember know their interview was over, he had a newspaper to put out. Before leaving, he signed Pember\u2019s copy of his boarding school book in typical forward thinking language. \u201cThe book you are about to write is needed. Let\u2019s continue to educate, thanks, Tim Giago.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTim Giago died July 24, 2022, in Rapid City, South Dakota, at the age of 88. He was born on July 12, 1934. His Oglala Lakota name was Nanwica Kcjii which translates to He Stands up for Them or The Defender. Doris Giago, his former wife, said he had cancer and complications related to diabetes. His wife Jackie Giago didn\u2019t want to talk.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cWhile working as a reporter for the Rapid City Journal, I was bothered by the fact that although I had been born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, I was seldom given an opportunity to do news stories about the people of the reservation,\u201d Giago, the 1990 Nieman fellow, wrote in a 2005 article in Nieman Reports. \u201cOne editor told me that I would not be able to be objective in my reporting. I replied, \u2018All of your reporters are white. Are they objective when covering the white community.\u2019\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nGiago said by the spring of 1981 he knew he had to start a newspaper at Pine Ridge. The first office was in a former beauty shop. \u201cIt seems strange now but when our newspaper hit the stands,\u201d he wrote, \u201cwe became the only independently owned Indian weekly newspaper in America.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><P><\/p>\r\nDoris Giago remembers the first day in The Lakota Times newsroom in Pine Ridge.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cWell, none of us knew what we were doing. So we all learned by the seat of our pants,\u201d said Doris Giago, his ex-wife and co-founder in starting the newspaper in 1981. \u201cWe had to start everything from scratch.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAdvertising, circulation, and distribution. They didn\u2019t know any of it but did the best they could.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThey had their relatives, and nieces and nephews who were just 10 or 12 years old grabbing bundles off the press and selling the papers at the tribal offices.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe newspaper company was successful by several metrics. It went on to win hundreds of reporting awards from regional and Native press associations. And Giago said investigations from the newspaper \u201ccaused banks to be fined and rip-offs of the tribal government to be halted \u2026 Lakota Times proved that freedom of the press could not only succeed in Indian Country but that it can make a major difference in the way news is covered on the Indian reservations of America.\u201d\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nIn 1990 Giago wrote a challenge to the governor, calling for South Dakota to have a &#8220;Year of Reconciliation.&#8221; Gov. George S. Mickelson responded: &#8220;I couldn\u2019t agree with you more, Tim. We must reconcile those differences. As the state of South Dakota celebrates the beginning of its second century, we must also remember that statehood was a very sad time for the Native Americans.&#8221; As a gesture, the state dropped Columbus Day and changed it to Native American Day, the first state to do so.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe big lesson Amanda Takes War Bonnett learned from Giago: \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to use your voice. Don\u2019t be afraid to stand up for when you see disparities in Indian Country.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cHe really wasn\u2019t scared,\u201d said Takes War Bonnett with a laugh who worked with Giago for nearly 14 years. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t scared to do things. He wasn\u2019t scared to speak up.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today\/timgiagonaja\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" data-attachment-id=\"26627\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today-legacy-tim-giago\/timgiagonaja\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoNAJA.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1050\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tim Giago\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Giago&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota, at the Native American Journalists Association conference in Minnesota in September 2019. File Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye \/ Indian Country Today&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoNAJA-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoNAJA.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Giago\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-26627\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota, at the Native American Journalists Association conference in Minnesota in September 2019. File Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye \/ Indian Country Today<\/figcaption>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThat got him into trouble, she said. \u201cSome people didn&#8217;t like him because he would speak up against people, against corruption or things and he had that kind of voice, but I know he had enemies. You know, some people didn&#8217;t like what he did.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nTake the early days of The Lakota Times for example.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cOne of the things that was going on when we first starting, we were just coming out of all the problems of 1973 with the occupation of Wounded Knee,\u201d Giago told ICT in July 2021. He had a different perspective on it. \u201cI thought a lot of the things that the American Indian Movement did were more harmful than helpful.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nHe said it even affected his business. His landlord called him at three in the morning. \u201cHe said, \u2018you better get down here.\u2019 He said, \u2018you don&#8217;t have any windows left.\u2019 So I got down here to three in the morning and sure enough, all the windows were gone. And so I moved the paper across the street into a, I thought it would be a more secure office.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cAnd on December of that year, I got firebombed. People came by and threw molotav cocktails in front of my building. And luckily, a BIA officer was driving by and saw it, and he jumped up and kicked him away from the doors. So those are some of the hard things that came out of work. One night got in my pickup and somebody put a bullet through my windshield and just missed my head,\u201d Giago said. \u201cSo, I mean, if that&#8217;s what it took to get the freedom of the press going on the reservation, I guess that&#8217;s what it took.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nIn 1983, Giago organized more than two dozen Indigenous journalists and formed the Native American Press Association. That later became the <a href=https:\/\/najanewsroom.com\/mission-and-history\/>Native American Journalists Association<\/a>. Giago was elected the first president.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cThe impact Tim had on Indigenous journalism as one of NAJA\u2019s founders is immeasurable. He has been a champion of free press in Indigenous communities his entire career and faced challenges, threats and political pressure, but always pushed to bring essential news and information to the people. He\u2019s irreplaceable,\u201d said Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, the organization\u2019s executive director and Muscogee (Creek), in an email. \u201cI know generations of Indigenous journalists will look to his dogged dedication to the truth for decades to come and be inspired by his tremendous legacy.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nPart of Giago\u2019s legacy and push to make voices heard is his knack for creating newspapers.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n&#8220;Tim Giago was a serial creator \u2013 first a TV show. Then Lakota Times. Then the Native American Press Association, later the Native American Journalists He always pushed for more, reaching for an even better way to serve Indian people with news. So after Lakota Times it was Indian Country Today. Then Lakota Journal. Then Native Sun News. He never lost his vision about how important it is for a community to have a journalistic recording of itself,\u201d said Mark Trahant, ICT editor-at-large.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n&#8220;Along the way he lured dozens of Native people into this mission of journalism. He let so many Native young people know how important information can be &#8212; and why they had as much right to it as anyone.&#8221;\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=row><div class=col-7>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today\/timgiagonaja-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1867\" data-attachment-id=\"26628\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2022\/07\/25\/indian-country-today-legacy-tim-giago\/timgiagonaja-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoNAJA.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1867\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tim Giago\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Giago&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota, at the Native American Journalists Association conference in Minnesota in September 2019. File Photo by Indian Country Today&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoNAJA-768x1024.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiagoNAJA.jpeg\" alt=\"Tim Giago\"   class=\"size-full wp-image-26628\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"col-5 align-self-end\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota, at the Native American Journalists Association conference in Minnesota in September 2019. File Photo by Indian Country Today<\/figcaption><\/div><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nTakes War Bonnett is an example of seeing and fostering talent.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nIn 2004 he encouraged her to create a newspaper for Pine Ridge, the Lakota Country Times. Now called The Lakota Times.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nPulitzer Prize finalist and cartoonist Marty Two Bulls Sr. started his career with Giago in 1988. Two Bulls and his wife were both hired \u2014 his wife in the business department and Two Bulls in production assembling ads.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cAnd one day I did an editorial and I took it to him. I said, \u2018see if you can do a cartoon to this\u2019 because he had a good hand in art. So he did a cartoon for the editorial,\u201d Giago told ICT. \u201cAnd from then on every week, I&#8217;d give him my editorial and he&#8217;d do the cartoons for it.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nHis ex-wife and friend, Lynn Rapp, said Giago loved the cartoons in the paper. \u201cHe felt that it was really critical to make fun of the situation but also make fun of ourselves.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nPerhaps that was an extension of his humor. \u201cHe had a marvelous sense of humor, and could make jokes out of many things,\u201d she said. \u201cHe could make you laugh like crazy.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nBesides his humor, Rapp mentioned that she wants people to know that Giago \u201cwas very compassionate for people who were in trouble. He was always kind to those who needed kindness.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThat compassion and his strong-willed personality drove his life mission of telling the truth for Native peoples. Because they deserved to know.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nGiago paved the way for Native journalism; the best way to memorialize him is to continue the work.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nICT&#8217;s Mark Trahant contributed to this report. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<strong>Sign up for <a href=https:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin?v=001kGlTg99yfXXt7G2r9xyTf7Wu1NNwNqoDGVC1RdW0qDes2lzLZYAGJLEBQkv6mcQtr08X6Fxo6G83SzxZAHAXD2Iz-lYklvOA8E2u43EX-ho%3D>ICT\u2019s free newsletter<\/a>. <\/strong>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><EM>Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Din\u00e9, is editor of ICT and based in its Washington bureau. She is the first woman to be the chief news executive and top editor of the 40-year-old newspaper and website. Bennett-Begaye\u2019s Grey\u2019s Anatomy obsession started while attending the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Follow her on Twitter: <a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/jourdanbb?lang=en>@jourdanbb<\/a> or email her at jourdan@ictnews.org.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nMary Annette Pember, a citizen of the Red Cliff Ojibwe tribe, is a national correspondent for ICT.\r\n<\/em><HR>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nICT is a <a href=https:\/\/support.indiancountrytoday.com\/>nonprofit news organization<\/a>. Will you support our work? All of our content is free. There are no subscriptions or costs. And we have hired more Native journalists in the past year than any news organization \u2500 and with your help we will continue to grow and create career paths for our people. <a href=https:\/\/support.indiancountrytoday.com\/>Support ICT<\/a> for as little as $10. \r\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiago.jpeg\" alt=\"Tim Giago\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25\/TimGiago-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Giago\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" class=\"invisible\" \/> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of modern Indian journalism has passed on. 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