The Annual Fort Robinson Outbreak Spiritual 400 mile run is held every year from January 8th to the 14th, to commemorate the attempt by members of the Cheyenne Tribe to return to their homelands. Starved, sick and without proper clothing they fled in the sub-zero temperatures. Lynnette Two Bulls,
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Gov. Kristi Noem set the tone for the 2024 South Dakota Legislature not with her session-opening State of the State Address but with her budget message in December. The second-term Republican touted a doctrine of financial discipline and austerity, embracing a tradition of South Dakota governors relishing not the
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Part 1 of this tribal history article described the Sioux uprising of 1862 in Minnesota, an effort to regain tribal lands which resulted in their defeat. Thirty-six of them, who were found guilty in that conflict, were then hanged by the U.S. military, the largest mass hanging in American
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Part three: Flash forward – Contamination in the Black Hills After sacking the riches from the tribal loss of hunting, fishing, gathering and ceremonial resources, Homestake left behind a Superfund site. Its contamination to Whitewood Creek qualified an 18-mile stretch of this upper Missouri tributary for federal emergency
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PIERRE — The 2024 South Dakota Legislative Session kicked-off this week and will continue until March. First, a very brief summary Civics lesson about our form of government. It has different branches. The state legislature is a branch, is made up of persons elected by voters. The legislature performs state
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Part one of a two part series Boston Globe Dec. 21, 1891. “Conspicuous in the collection is the ghost shirt worn in the Sioux Ghost Dance during the Messiah Craze. It is a spacious garment, made of heavy unbleached cotton, into which the yellow ochre has been rubbed until
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Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone, a Native American actress with her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. (courtesy photo) By Marnie Cook Native Sun News Today Assistant Editor Sometimes, it’s hard to see change. It can feel like every step is a slog, two steps forward and three steps
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A replica of a Forest Service sign in the parade float bears the words from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion about the theft of Black Hills treaty lands on July 22, 2023. Photo Courtesy/Black Hills Clean Water Alliance RAPID CITY – Conservation biologists consider the Black Hills a “sky island.”
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North Dakota state Rep. Robin Weisz, at left, and state Sen. Jerry Klein, both Republicans, inspect alternative maps proposed by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, during a meeting of a top legislative panel at the state Capitol in
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Cutline Gary Whipple Gary Whipple, Honor’s uncle, shows a visitor the bench that Honor built with his classmates at Sapa Un Jesuit Academy in St. Francis, S.D. It has now become a memorial to the boy’s impact on the school. (Photo: Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch) Editor’s note:
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