Mary Kim Titla

Mary Kim Titla (* November 24, 1960 in San Carlos, Arizona) is an American journalist and TV reporter, and was the Democratic candidate for Congress in 2008 in Arizona. It is Apache and registered member of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in southeastern Arizona. If elected, she would have been the first Indian woman in Congress, at the same time as candidates Indians in New Mexico and in Alaska.

The name Titla is the shortened version of the Apache word hada - tithla what flash means.

Origin and Youth

Titlas parents are Philip and Charlotte Titla. The father was at the birth of his daughter just 16 years old, but the young parents decided against the child for adoption. Philipp Titla was known as a wood carver, his wife was employed as a social worker, but also dabbled in the field of tribal politics. After she had (next to Mary Kim, these were Millie, Phillip Darrell, Phillip Jr., Gussie ) brought a total of five children, the parents to have along with her youngest child a high school graduation decided.

Until she was 8 years old, the family lived with the paternal grandparents in Bylas, in Graham County. Mary Kim went to a Lutheran mission school and a primary school, the Bylas Lutheran Mission and the Ft. Thomas Elementary School. Then the family moved to San Carlos in Gila County, where she attended the Lutheran Mission Peridot and spent a year at the Globe High School. You could live near her family because she was taken after an accident in a public school. She graduated at the East Fork Lutheran High School in the White Mountain Apache Reservation ( Navajo County). She was active in the United National Indian Tribal Youth (about: United Nationwide Indian Tribal Youth, short UNITY ), for which she was awarded by Congress.

Studying journalism and family

Finally, she attended Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher, then moved to the University of Oklahoma, where she completed her examination as a journalist. To this end, she gave her original plan to become a teacher, on. During this time she turned twice a beauty contest and became Miss Indian Eastern Arizona College and 1981 Miss National Congress of American Indians selected. On this occasion she came in contact with other Indians, including Alaska, and was later able to travel around the country. In addition, she was involved in a student newspaper, on a common Yearbook and the Native American Club.

At the University, she met her husband, John Mosley, a member of the Assiniboine / Paiute Tribes, know, who moved from California to Oklahoma. The parents refused a marriage of the two, as long as her daughter had not yet completed their studies. The two married in August 1985, a few months before Titlas graduation. Mosley came from California and the University of Oklahoma had visited. A little later Titla graduated from Arizona State University with a Master's Degree in Mass Communication. During this time, she supported her mother Charlotte, who competed as the first woman for the seat of Vice Chairwoman of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, but suffered a defeat. In December 1985, the son Jordan was born.

Journalist at ABC in Phoenix

When her husband lost his job, Mary Kim Titla 1986 competed at the television station KTVK TV in Phoenix, a subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC ). While her husband worked at FedEx, it rose within two years from the receptionist to the production assistant. In 1987 she became the first Native American television reporter in Arizona. Your first report turned to the visit of Pope John Paul II They were the contacts that they had renewed during their pageants use to accompany the Pope on his visit Reserve. She then worked for six years with its sister company, KVOA, 1993, she went to KPNX TV. During this time she gave birth to two more sons.

2005 she managed the change in their actual profession, journalism, writing for media, but less in the pressure range, rather than in the Internet sector. Now working for Native Youth Magazine online. She is also a member of the Gilson Wash District Economic Enterprise Board, which has set itself the economic development of the region to the destination. In an area with more than 80 percent unemployment rate, she managed to opening of Mescal Mountain Materials, a company for sand and gravel extraction. Finally, she founded Titla Consulting, a company that deals with media and the local language and advises it.

Political ambitions: Senate chief election

In January 2007 she ran her first half marathon, knowing that the long-distance running has a traditional basis for many Indian peoples. Even in her family had running tradition, her mother also ran the marathon.

In the primaries for the Democratic candidates of the 1st district in Arizona Titla lost with 33 percent of Democratic voters against Ann Kirkpatrick (47 percent), a former prosecutor, who had represented from 2004 to 2007 Arizona's second district.

In October 2010, Titla applied for the position of chairman ( chairman ) of the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council Its main objectives are the promotion of housing construction and the creation of a museum and an Apache village to participate in tourism., But defeated them in the election on November 1 against Terry Rambler (35 percent of the vote ). Mary Kim Titla could unite 29.5 percent of the vote, the other two candidates Wendsler nosie, Sr. and David Reede 19.65 or 15.59 percent.

Awards

2012 was the first Titla Edward Wadda UNITY Award, which is reminiscent of the eponymous Eastern Shoshone. She had been raised through golf tournaments over half a million dollars that flowed to the organization. She donated the prize to the San Carlos Apache Youth Council.