Windspeaker a winner

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Windspeaker walked away from this year's Native American Journalists Association award ceremony with five awards, including two for best sports photo.

Jim Goodstriker won first place for his photo of Doug Singer, from the southern Alberta Blood Reserve, wrestling a 700-pound steer at the Kanai rodeo. It appeared on the front page of Aug. 16, 1993.

Bert Crowfoot, Windspeaker's publisher, won honorable mention for his photo of Keisha McMaster of the Siksika Juvenile Girls team getting the basketball past a guard at the North American Indigenous Games in Prince Albert, Sask. That picture graced the cover of Windspeaker on Aug. 2, 1993.

Crowfoot also won honorable mention for his games photos which appeared inside the Aug. 2, 1993 issue.

Columnist Drew Hayden Taylor won an honorable mention for his columns, which appear regularly in Windspeaker.

Windspeaker also won honorable mention for general excellence for a newspaper published twice a month.

The NAJA. convention and awards ceremony was held in Atlanta this year and brought together the National Association of Black Journalists, the Asian American Journalists Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

NAJA's tenth anniversary conference brought together 6,000 journalists of color July 26-29.