Our Mission
Why we exist
The Circle exists because Native American communities deserve journalism that treats them as full human beings with complex lives, not as subjects of outside curiosity or the objects of policy concern.
Mainstream media has covered Native communities incompletely and often inaccurately for as long as mainstream media has existed. The Circle was founded on the conviction that the answer to that failure was not better outsider coverage. The answer was Native journalism, produced by Native journalists, answerable to Native communities.
We cover the stories that matter to the people we serve: treaty rights, sovereignty, health, education, the arts, the land, the water, the young, and the old. We do it with the same rigor and the same standards as any serious news organization, because our readers deserve nothing less.
