[1] Red Bear began her journalism career at the Lakota Times in 1990, where her reporting included a 10-part series exposing fake medicine men and women.
The late Tim Giago, founder of the Lakota Times, called the series "one of the major accomplishments in Indian journalism.
[1] Red Bear has said that many of her readers don't have internet access, so "her printed paper is the only way they know what's going on with local government or whose kids made the honor roll.
Tribal governments remain the largest media owners and control an estimated 72 percent of newspapers and radio stations.
[2] When President Barack Obama visited the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation in 2014, Red Bear expressed concerns about the proposed expansion of the Keystone Pipeline, which would have had an impact on her tribe's land.