May 24, 2002

Online Newspaper Will Train American Indian Students in Journalism

By SCOTT CARLSON

Amanda jo Wauneka is a young Navajo woman, and when she gets out of college, she wants to be a journalist. That should be a natural career path for an American Indian, she says. "Storytelling is in the blood for us -- it's something Grandpa did. We've always been told that words have power."

But those stories and voices have been hard to hear over the din of the American news media. Ms. Wauneka, a junior at Haskell Indian Nations University, in Kansas, is something of a rarity. Of

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