Dana Hedgpeth - Washington Post reporter
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I'm a reporter at The Washington Post, covering the D.C. region.
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The Dori J. Maynard Justice Award, sponsored by The O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism and Marquette University, goes to Dana Hedgpeth, Sari Horwitz and the staff at The Washington Post for their “Indian Boarding Schools" project. 🏆
April 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Dori J. Maynard Justice Award, sponsored by The O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism and Marquette University, goes to Dana Hedgpeth, Sari Horwitz and the staff at The Washington Post for their “Indian Boarding Schools" project. 🏆
So honored and humbled to be in this video of the finalists for the 2025 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, for our investigative series on Indian boarding schools.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
So honored and humbled to be in this video of the finalists for the 2025 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, for our investigative series on Indian boarding schools.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhxQ...
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I was the only foreign media reporter allowed inside South Korea’s Constitutional Court for the verdict today to remove impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office.
Here’s what it was like:
Here’s what it was like:
April 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I was the only foreign media reporter allowed inside South Korea’s Constitutional Court for the verdict today to remove impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office.
Here’s what it was like:
Here’s what it was like:
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser. The pages can be erased but never forget their service.
March 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser. The pages can be erased but never forget their service.
How the impact of federal firings hit two institutions in Indian Country www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Across Indian Country, mass firings at colleges open up age-old wounds
The losses at two Native American schools were part of the Trump administration’s purge of federal workers. A partial reversal has done little to allay fears.
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March 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
How the impact of federal firings hit two institutions in Indian Country www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Highly recommend listening to Cherokee Nation author Rebecca Nagle read her book on the taking of Native American lands. So well done. www.audible.com/pd/B0CKZHNJ4...
By the Fire We Carry
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. “Rebecca Nagle gives a clear and compelling narration of her look into how a small-town murder in the Muscogee Nation led to a significant 2020 Supreme Cour...
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February 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Highly recommend listening to Cherokee Nation author Rebecca Nagle read her book on the taking of Native American lands. So well done. www.audible.com/pd/B0CKZHNJ4...
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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
February 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
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Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Here’s how we found our evidence. wapo.st/3DnIr9q
More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures
The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.
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December 22, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Our year-long investigation found that more than 3,100 children died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 and that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended. Here’s how we found our evidence. wapo.st/3DnIr9q