South Dakota, committing to his style of investigative journalism as well as broad coverage of Indian news. It is published on paper only. He also was a columnist for the Huffington Post, an online news source. Personal life Giago and his first wife, Doris, with whom he started the Lakota Times, later divorced. She became the first Indian journalism professor at South Dakota State University (SDSU) and also the first tenured Native American Professor in SDSU history. She retired as professor emeritus in 2014. His second wife was named Jackie. He had twelve children. Giago died from complications of cancer and diabetes in Rapid City, South Dakota, on July 24, 2022, aged 88. Books The Aboriginal Sin: Reflections on the Holy Rosary Indian Mission School (Red Cloud Indian School), poetry, San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1978. Notes from Indian Country, K. Cochran, 1984. Non-fiction. The American Indian and the Media, Minneapolis, MN: National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1991. Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools, Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishing, 2002. Honors The Lakota Times/Indian Country Today won more than 50 awards from the South Dakota Newspaper Association while Giago was publisher; 1985, H. L. Mencken Award for journalism; 1991, Harvard University Nieman Fellowship; University of Missouri Distinguished Journalism Award; 2007, the first American Indian inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame References External links "About 'Wassaja' (San Francisco), 1971–1979", Chronicling America, Library of Congress 1934 births 2022 deaths 20th-century American journalists 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century American journalists 21st-century Native Americans American male journalists American newspaper founders Deaths from cancer in South Dakota Deaths from diabetes HuffPost writers and columnists Journalists from Montana Journalists from North Dakota Journalists from South Dakota Oglala people Military personnel from South Dakota Native American journalists Nieman Fellows People from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota