Mark Trahant is the Charles R. Johnson Endowed Professor of Journalism at the University of North Dakota. He is an independent journalist and a member of The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.
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Rural America
Some Tribal Economies Depend on Resource Extraction, But These Days that Doesn’t Translate into Jobs
Mark Trahant