ABC Network hires Indian as feature reporter

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An Idaho Nez Perce, Hattie Kauffman, 32, has a new job. She's a feature reporter on ABC-TV's Good Morning America.

Kauffman was born in Grangeville, Idaho, but she was raised in Seattle, Washington where she became a top TV news achor woman. She also worked on an Indian radio news program in Minnesota, a television program called Native Vision in Tacoma before going to New York's Good Morning America.

One of her first assignments was a story on an Oklahoma town that didn't allow dancing. Her travelling schedule is hectic. She's flew to Chicago, then Mississippi, then to Arizona, then to Mexico, all in one week. One day she had to fly to Washington state, then back to Washington, D.C. in one day.