Tim Giago, trailblazing Native American journalist, dies
In this photo dated May 2022, Tim Giago, editor of Native Sun News Today, is pictured in his Rapid City, South Dakota office. Giago is Oglala Lakota. Giago, the founder of the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States, has died at age 88, his former wife says. (Mary Annette Pember / Indian Country Today via AP)
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Gretchen Ehlke | The Associated Press
Tim Giago, the founder of the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States, has died at age 88, his former wife said.
Giago, who died at Monument Health in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Sunday (July 24), created an enduring legacy during his more than four decades of work in South Dakota journalism, his colleagues said.
