By Matteo Cimellaro Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) told The New York Times it was not welcome at its annual conference following years of coverage that the association says relied on harmful tropes and stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples. The rift began in 2019 after The New York Times published a piece by the paper’s former Toronto bureau chief on Inuit artists that was called out for harmful stereotypes. The headline of the article begins with “Drawn from Poverty’’, an assumption and common stereotype. The headlines also referred to Inuit Peoples as “Canada’s Inuit’’, a possessive community members in the North found harmful, Francine Compton, NAJA president and CBC Indigenous producer, says. Compton speaks solely as NAJA president for this story, she adds. After the controversy over

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