Laura Waterman Wittstock

Laura Waterman Wittstock (September 11, 1937 – January 16, 2021) was a Seneca journalist, writer and radio producer. She was also an activist for Indigenous rights, civil rights and women's rights.

Family and early life Wittstock was born in 1937 on the Cattaraugus Reservation in New York. She was a citizen of the Haudenosaunee Seneca Nation and a member of the Heron clan.

Wittstock's parents were Isaac "Jack" Waterman and Clarinda "Cleo" Waterman . She had four elder brothers, William Waterman, Kenneth Waterman, Arthur Waterman and Arnold Waterman.

After moving to Washington D.C., Wittstock worked as a journalist with Richard LaCourse of the Yakama Nation. That year she also became Executive Director of the American Indian Press Association. With a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society, she also produced the book We are Still Here: A photographic history of the American Indian Movement, which recounted the 1972 national protest of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and what activists referred to as the Trail of Broken Treaties, using the photographs of Dick Bancroft.

In 2010, Wittstock resurrected the cancelled First Person Radio, producing and presenting a weekly one-hour Indian current events program on KFAI (AM). She invited guests onto the program including Chief Arvol Looking Horse and lawyers Walter R. Echo-Hawk and John Echohawk.