Deborah Locke of the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minnesota, has, for the second consecutive year, won the Frank Premack award for

Deborah Locke of the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minnesota, has, for the second consecutive year, won the Frank Premack award for opinion writing. Established in honor of a Minneapolis Star-Tribune reporter and editor who died in 1975, the award honors Locke for a column rebutting a state education official who declined in a radio interview to characterize as genocidal the Indian deaths caused by Christopher Columbus and his crews.

Locke, an Ojibwe enrolled with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in northeastern Minnesota, previously was awarded a Premack for a column on crowded school conditions.

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