(L .to R.) Harold Frazier with James White at the GTCPA special meeting in April . (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has begun tackling the backlog of probate cases in Indian Country and in May distributed twenty-eight million dollars to tribal beneficiaries
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Mason Big Crow is sworn in as Treasurer of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in Pine Ridge on March 21, 2011. Big Crow now faces federal charges alleging theft of tribal funds and conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID CITY — When federal prosecutors first indicted former
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Flooding in the Oglala area. (Photo by Rhonda Dreamer) OGLALA LAKOTA COUNTY – A slow-moving thunderstorm system bypassed Rapid City entirely but caused devastating flash flooding over parts of the Pine Ridge Reservation and Oglala Lakota County. It’s estimated that in a short amount of time, the storm dumped over
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland speaks at the Gila River Indian Community in Laveen, Arizona in October 2024. (Gage Skidmore/ZUMA) ALBUQUERQUE — Deb Haaland, the former U.S. Secretary of the Interior and one of the most nationally recognized Native American political leaders in the country, clinched the Democratic nomination
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From left, Tim Ridgway, vice president of health affairs and Sanford School of Medicine dean, speaks with medical students including Tanner Smith and Tanner Berg, as well as South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden, at the Canopy by Hilton in downtown Sioux Falls on Aug. 14, 2025. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South
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Your local Menards home improvement store is now serving as a drop site for a local food pantry during the months of June & July, 2026. We’re excited to participate in this wonderful opportunity while lending a helping hand to the community during the next three months. Menards offers
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Boe and Larry at the 13th Annual Swalley Memorial Tournament MARTIN — Under clear skies and summerlike warmth, the 13th Annual Zondo and Leroy Swalley Memorial Golf Tournament brought 44 two-person scramble teams to Markota Acres Golf Course on Saturday, May 23, 2026. The event, a staple of the Martin
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Tawney Brunsch, Executive Director of Lakota Funds, shares ideas on future projects and housing needs on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Lakota Funds received $764,000 to finance home loans for Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (USDA Imagery by Michael Frye.) (Huron, S.D., June 3, 2026) – U.S. Department
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Week of May 29 – June 3, 2026 Navajo Nation declares state of emergency over water system failures The Navajo Nation Council voted unanimously this week to declare a state of emergency after multiple community water systems failed across the eastern agency, leaving more than 9,000 residents without reliable access
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Author: Crystal Wahpapah Crystal Wahpepah’s A Feather and A Fork: 125 Intertribal Dishes from an Indigenous Food Warrior is more than a cookbook, it is a reclamation, a remembering, and a gentle but firm insistence that Indigenous foodways are not relics of the past but living, breathing relatives. Wahpepah,
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