Jodi Rave
Lee Enterprises Newspapers

Jodi Rave's series, Broken Trust, is a complicated story about Indian land rights and federal bureaucracy. But more than that, it's a tale of how discrimination older than the United States conspired with neglect and malfeasance to bleed millions of dollars from a struggling people.

Rave is a national reporter and columnist who covers Native American issues for 58 newspapers in 22 states for Lee Enterprises newspapers. Rave started working out of the Missoulian newspaper in Missoula, Mont., after completing a 2004 Nieman fellowship at Harvard University. She won the 2002 Thomas C. Sorensen Award for distinguished Nebraska journalism for the Broken Trust series, written when she was assigned to Lee's Journal Star in Lincoln, Neb.