PIERRE, S.D.—Law students, legal professionals and others interested in better understanding child welfare related law will have the opportunity to learn from local and national experts on April 3, 2025. The fourth annual Legal Workshop presented by the South Dakota Unified Judicial System, University of South Dakota Knudson School of
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State Sen. Tamara Grove, R-Lower Brule, speaks on the South Dakota Senate floor on Jan. 22, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) PIERRE — On Thursday in Pierre, state senators did something no previous Senate had been willing to do: Endorse a bill to change South Dakota’s unique-in-the-nation felony drug ingestion
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RAPID CITY—Across the nation, every one of the 574 federally recognized tribes, has seen what Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has done to massive bureaucracies like USAID, and the concern is that Musk will set his crosshairs on the Department of Interior in general, and
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Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people gather in Juneau for the opening of Celebration on June 5, 2024. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) The state of Alaska has filed suit against the U.S. Department of the Interior in an attempt to overturn a legal opinion that allowed the Native Village of Eklutna to
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First Presbyterian Church courtyard playground. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – After asking for divine guidance, it took less than twenty minutes, from invocation to final consideration of the item, for the Rapid City Council to vote unanimously to table the warming center. The meeting began with an invocation
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Joseph Lafferty hold up a traditional Lakota whip as he explains the important role of whipman. (Photo by Alaina Beautiful Bald Eagle) EAGLE BUTTE – The Oyate Topa Treaty Council issues an urgent call to action in its invitation to the second Reservation-Wide Meeting on February 19, 2025, from 9:00
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Taaliyah Porter, 5-10 senior forward for the Steven’s Raiders. (Photo by James Giago Davies) RAPID CITY — For half a century Rapid City Central has produced dozens of Native ballplayers, but there were few Natives playing for Rapid City Stevens. In the last ten years, that has changed with Stevens
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“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem.”~ Executive Director for Tanka Fund Dawn Sherman RAPID CITY – The buffalo was brought to near extinction in the late 1800’s by the United States “scorched earth” policies. This is a military strategy to destroy everything in
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem added Donald Trump—to a replica of the massive granite monument that she commissioned and then presented when he delivered a speech at a controversial Mount Rushmore celebration on July 3, 2020. WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, January 28, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) introduced legislation that would
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Northern Cheyenne Councilwomen Melissa Lonebear & Theresa Small with Enrollment staff, IT & Administrative staff assisting Northern Cheyenne Tribal members getting their TRIBAL I.D’s in Billings. (Photo courtesy Facebook) Both the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Tribes have recently taken steps to assist tribal members in having current ID’s, a reaction
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