Avis Red Bear

Avis Red Bear (née Little Eagle) is an American journalist and the founder of the Teton Times, an independent Native American newspaper. She is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Career

Red Bear studied Mass Communications and Native Studies at Black Hills State University, and ultimately graduated from Sitting Bull College in 1987.

Red Bear began her journalism career at the Lakota Times in 1990, where her reporting included a 10-part series exposing fake medicine men and women. The late Tim Giago, founder of the Lakota Times, called the series "one of the major accomplishments in Indian journalism." Over the ensuing decade, Red Bear rose from news reporter to managing editor of the Lakota Times.