Hattie Kauffman is an American journalist. A member of the

Nez Perce people The Nez Percé (; autonym in Nez Perce language: , meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who are presumed to have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region for at least 11,500 years.Ames, K ...

, she was the first Native American to file a report on a national news broadcast.Bio
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Early life

She spent the first three years of her life on the Nez Perce Reservation in

Lapwai, Idaho Lapwai is a city in the northwest United States, in Nez Perce County, Idaho. Its population was 1,137 at the 2010 census, and it is the seat of government of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. Lapwai actually means "The land of the butterflies" H ...

before moving to

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with her mother. Kauffman attended the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

because "it was the only university in the country that offered a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies." She continued her education at the

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under a

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Minorities in Broadcasting Scholarship.Hattie Kauffman CBS News
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Career overview

Kauffman started her career on college radio at the University of Minnesota. She then began to report and anchor for

KING 5 KING-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Everett-licensed independent station KONG (channel 16). Both stations share studios at the Home Plate ...

News in Seattle, earning four

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s. From there, she went to ''

Good Morning America ''Good Morning America'' (often abbreviated as ''GMA'') is an American morning television program that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3, 1975, and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on January 3, 1993. Th ...

'' in 1987 as a Special Correspondent and substitute anchor. In 1990, she began working at

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as a correspondent and substitute anchor on ''

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''. She spent two decades at CBS, reporting for '' 48 Hours'', ''Street Stories'', '' Sunday Morning'',

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, CBS Special Reports, ''

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'', and ''

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''. Her memoir, ''Falling Into Place'', was released in September 2013.

References

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