Jamison Two-Hawks (Oglala Lakota and Bitterroot Salish) is a journalist and oral historian born in 1981 in Rapid City, South Dakota, and raised between Rapid City and the Flathead Reservation in Montana. A graduate of the University of Montana (B.A., History) and the University of British Columbia (M.J., Journalism), he has reported on land rights, water policy, and language revitalization for outlets including High Country News, Montana Public Radio, and the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. Two-Hawks has served as a researcher for a Tribal Historic Preservation Office and taught community workshops on field recording and archival practice. His reporting has received honors from the Native American Journalists Association, and his audio projects have been exhibited at regional museums and tribal colleges. He lives in Missoula, where he mentors youth storytellers and works with elders to preserve family collections of tapes, photographs, and ledger drawings.
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