For the past ten years, the 180 tribal members who live on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Reservation in Southern California have been without safe drinking water.
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Best College Radio Story - awarded by Native American Journalists Association
Awarded 1st place in the 2012 Native American Journalists Association Media Awards for the radio piece "One hundred years with Ishi: The 'last wild Indian' of North America." The story, which aired on KALW-FM, focused on the 100-year anniversary of Ishi's arrival at the University of California, Berkeley. Ishi was a Native American of the Yana people who was said by anthropologists at the time to be the last suriviving member of his tribe as well as the final uncultivated 'Indian' in the United States. The story explored the historical accounts and misconceptions surrounding Ishi.
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For the past ten years, the 180 tribal members who live on the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Reservation in Southern California have been without safe drinking water.