In her 30-year newspaper career she has covered consumer news, health, the environment,
and Indigenous issues. She specializes as an environment and science writer, and is well
known for her wide ranging coverage of Native American politics, their environment, culture
and spirituality. Her articles appear in News from Indian Country, Indian Country Today,
High Country News, SEJournal - a publication of the Society of Environmental Journalists,
and Native Times News, among others. Her article, 966 and counting: Yellowstone buffalo
dying to be free, was honored as a Best News Story in 1997 by the Native American
Journalists Association. The Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers awarded
her Writer of the Year for Prose in 1996 and 1997. She received The Oregonian Publisher's
Award of Excellence in 1990; and the Howard Simon Fellowship in 1995 through the Society
of Environmental Journalists. She recently received recognition from her peers in the Society
of Environmental Journalists for her story about the impacts of climate change disruption in
the Pacific Northwest.
Terri has an unparalleled relationship with the Native nations and peoples of the Pacific
Northwest, and beyond those borders. She has forged streams, trailed wildlife, romped
through deserts, hiked isolated ocean shores, paddled traditional canoes, and spent
innumerable hours both indoors and out with Native peoples, in getting their exclusive
stories, and ensuring those stories are told with honor.
She has a Native voice, and she tells the Native story from that unique perspective.
and Indigenous issues. She specializes as an environment and science writer, and is well
known for her wide ranging coverage of Native American politics, their environment, culture
and spirituality. Her articles appear in News from Indian Country, Indian Country Today,
High Country News, SEJournal - a publication of the Society of Environmental Journalists,
and Native Times News, among others. Her article, 966 and counting: Yellowstone buffalo
dying to be free, was honored as a Best News Story in 1997 by the Native American
Journalists Association. The Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers awarded
her Writer of the Year for Prose in 1996 and 1997. She received The Oregonian Publisher's
Award of Excellence in 1990; and the Howard Simon Fellowship in 1995 through the Society
of Environmental Journalists. She recently received recognition from her peers in the Society
of Environmental Journalists for her story about the impacts of climate change disruption in
the Pacific Northwest.
Terri has an unparalleled relationship with the Native nations and peoples of the Pacific
Northwest, and beyond those borders. She has forged streams, trailed wildlife, romped
through deserts, hiked isolated ocean shores, paddled traditional canoes, and spent
innumerable hours both indoors and out with Native peoples, in getting their exclusive
stories, and ensuring those stories are told with honor.
She has a Native voice, and she tells the Native story from that unique perspective.
Terri Crawford Hansen has always made her home in the Pacific
Northwest. She has lived and reported from such remote locations as the
Long Beach peninsula in southwest Washington; Whidbey Island,
Northwest. She has lived and reported from such remote locations as the
Long Beach peninsula in southwest Washington; Whidbey Island,
located between the Pacific Ocean and Washington's Puget Sound; the homelands of the Nez
Perce in Washington's Spokane valley; and Oregon's majestic Wy'east, that we call Mt.
Hood, where she lived in wilderness with the deer, skunks and two wolves on the glacial
waters of the wild upper Sandy River. Today she calls the forest of Sunriver, Oregon home.
Terri is enrolled in the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska, although her families hail from the
Wisconsin Winnebago, the Hochungra peoples. She is a descendant of the Winnebago Chief
Whirlingthunder, and the French trapper Decorah, whose marriage to the chief’s daughter
has produced generations of Native American Decorahs, DeCoras, and Decoras.
Perce in Washington's Spokane valley; and Oregon's majestic Wy'east, that we call Mt.
Hood, where she lived in wilderness with the deer, skunks and two wolves on the glacial
waters of the wild upper Sandy River. Today she calls the forest of Sunriver, Oregon home.
Terri is enrolled in the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska, although her families hail from the
Wisconsin Winnebago, the Hochungra peoples. She is a descendant of the Winnebago Chief
Whirlingthunder, and the French trapper Decorah, whose marriage to the chief’s daughter
has produced generations of Native American Decorahs, DeCoras, and Decoras.