ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏓ. ᎪᎮᏂ ᏓᏆᏙᎠ. ᏔᎴᏆ ᏥᏁᎳ. ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎨᎳ. By The Fire We Carry ᎠᎴ ᎡᎶᎯ ᎤᎦᏤᎵ ᏓᏬᏪᎳᏅᎢ.

Hi! I’m Rebecca. I’m an award-winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation. I am the author of By The Fire We Carry: The Generation-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land and the writer and host of the podcast This Land. My writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and more. I am the recipient of the Lukas Book Prize, the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Peabody Nominee, and the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award. I live in Tahlequah, OK.

What is the Native America Newsletter?

Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. My writing seeks to correct this. From the census, to COVID, to the Supreme Court, I focus on deep and timely reporting that sheds light on issues of national importance. I’ll publish this newsletter twice monthly, with one longer-form article and another newsletter with a Native News Roundup and deep dive on a current event, and I hope you’ll follow along!