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Elaine Strongbow is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and has covered environmental and tribal sovereignty issues for The Circle since 2019. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and was a 2023 fellow of the Institute for Nonprofit News.

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