[November 28, 2020]

Approximate number of Pueblo petroglyphs marking “Newspaper Rock”: 650

Total years since the first Native newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, was published: 192

Number of languages the Phoenix was published in: 2

Total years Cherokee editor, John Rollin Ridge, led coverage for the Sacramento Bee: 17 

Percentage of Native Americans staffed by US Newsrooms in 2019: 0.22%

Estimated number of Indigenous media sources in the United States: 200

Total number of public radio stations across Indian Country: 59

Percentage of newspapers, newsletters, and radio stations that are tribally-owned: 72%

Approximate debt accrued by the tribally-owned Navajo Times Today in 1984: $1M

Total times an NTT reporter was fired for writing critically about the Navajo Nation: 4

Total amount Indian Country Today funded by San Manuel Band of Mission Indians: $1M

Number of newspapers Lakota journalist and entrepreneur Tim Giago has started: 4 

Total articles on media access in UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: 1

Number of countries surveyed in the first study by the Indigenous Media Caucus: 19 

Approximate number of Indigenous languages that could thrive from media access: 7K