This Reporter’s Notebook gives an on-the-ground review of the Tribal Water Media Fellowship and one fellow’s experience learning, sharing, and exploring her own background and feelings as they relate to telling stories and Indigenous waters.

Juliya Valdez is a Southern Ute Tribal Member and recent FLC Southwestern Indigenous Language Development Institute Graduate. She works as a Cultural Media Technician in Cultural Preservation for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. Her primary focus is on Culture/Language Revitalization. Juliya chose to do a Reporter’s Notebook – a written, multimedia representation of her subject – for her project, and she chose the Fellowship itself as the topic, so she could explore what the experience of the Fellowship was like as a participant.

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