Red Hoop Talk EP 5: Levi Rickert, Native News Online Publisher and Editor
LEVI RICKERT, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation (Kansas), coming to us from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Levi Rickert is an American Indian journalist. He serves as publisher and editor of Native News Online, http://nativenewsonline.net/ one on America’s most read daily news American Indian publications. Rickert, a tribal citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, is the former executive director of the North American Indian Center of Grand Rapids. He has served as president of the Grand Rapids Historical Commission; vice chair of the City of Grand Rapids Community Relations Commission; among many additional boards. Currently, he is a member of the Grand Valley State University Native American Advisory Board and GVSU’s Kutsche Office of Local History Advisory Council. Rickert is also the author of several published essays. His most recent, “Indian Pride” appears in “Voice on the Water: Great Lakes Native America Now,” (Northern Michigan University Press). He co-produced and is featured in “Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience,” a 57-minute documentary film that was shown on various PBS stations across the United States.
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