On Monday, Indian Country Today Media Network announced it has temporarily ceased operations. The network is the publisher of both the daily website and the magazine “Indian Country,” first founded in 1981 by Oglala Lakota journalist Tim Giago under the name “Lakota Times.” The website and magazine have won numerous awards and produced groundbreaking coverage about violence against Native women, challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, the achievements of Native artists, activists and intellectuals, and the resistance at Standing Rock.