Tim Giago

It will always be one of my favorite trips to the Pine Ridge Reservation. One of my most informative, too. I was at the wheel of the Keloland News SUV. And Tim Giago was in the passenger’s seat, telling stories.

A longtime, legendary Lakota newsman has died. Tim Giago, most recently of Native Sun News, died Sunday morning.

Over the course of a news career that covered more than four decades, I’ve had some pretty cantankerous reactions to my journalism.But I’ve never been firebombed. I’ve never had my windows shot out. And I’ve never had an attempt on my life.

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In The Moment ... October 4. 2018 Show 436 Hour 2This Monday morning beginning at 10 in downtown Sioux Falls, the Native American Day parade takes…

In The Moment ... November 20, 2017 Show 224 Hour 1Newspaper publisher and columnist Tim Giago believes it's time to re-imagine the site of the Wounded…

In The Moment ... September 5, 2017 Show 170 Hour 2On September 8, columnist and newspaper publisher Tim Giago receives the 2017 Native American…

25 years ago, Oglala Lakota newspaper publisher Tim Giago wrote a column challenging then-Governor George Mickelson to proclaim 1990 a Year of…