Indian Time Newspaper: final edition

The Indian Time Newspaper is no more after 41 years. It published its final edition in Akwesasne today. The paper was created in 1983 from community demands in the wake of internal troubles. But it has fallen on hard times in recent years due to a changing media landscape and financial concerns. Marjorie Skidders has been the editor at Indian Time for the last 12 years:

“We tried to keep upbeat and have a good, positive outlook on this and not to be bitter or angry or upset. I think in the production room, it was hard to finish up the last paper. We sent it off and it wasn’t that we were finishing it any later than normal, we were kind of like on time, but it was just a different sense in doing this, that this was our last paper.”

Kenneth Deer was the founder of the Eastern Door. He says papers like the Eastern Door, Iorì:wase and Indian Time are crucial for Indigenous people:

“Very disappointing to hear of the collapse of the Indian Time, it was a newspaper that has been around for a longtime. I think local media is very, very important, particularly in Indian country, we have to have our own media to make sure that we get the stories right, we can’t depend on mainstream media for the information that we get that concerns us.”