Hear award-winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation Rebecca Nagle speak at the 2025 SAR President’s Lecture. Nagle’s research reveals that Indigenous communities do not receive the same standard of journalism from non-Native media outlets as the rest of the country. Her journalism seeks to correct this. From the census, to COVID, to the Supreme Court, Nagle focuses on deeply and timely reporting that sheds light on issues of national importance.

Rebecca Nagle is the author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generation-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (2024) and the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Indian Country Today, and other publications. She is the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award, a Peabody Award nomination, and numerous awards from the Indigenous Journalist Association. Nagle lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.