Kevin Killer takes helm of OST

Newly elected Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer and Vice President Alicia Mousseaux KYLE — Newly elected Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer and Vice President Alicia Mousseaux were sworn into office and conducted their first meeting on December 4 at the Piya Wiconi Multipurpose Building on the main campus

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Buffalo Jump: A site above all sites

Part II The Vore Buffalo Jump (VBJ) near Sundance, Wyoming is one of the largest preserved big game kill sites in the world, said Dr. Charles Reher, the leading archaeologist who excavated the site, devoting much of his career to get the site protected, researched and donated to UW and

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Little Crow’s War

    Little Crow, Mdewakanton Dakota Part 1 Little Crow, Mdewakanton Dakota Marie Antoinette and Andrew Myrick had two things in common—one, something they allegedly said, and two, losing their heads for having allegedly said it. However much historians dispute whether either of them uttered their infamous words, what can’t

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Frazier demands return of the tribal flags

Ziebach County Sheriff’s officers use a knife to take down the flag of the #LandBack treaty rights movement that flew from the bridge over the Cheyenne River between Bridger and Phillip where the Keystone XL tar-sands crude pipeline is slated to cross. (Courtesy Photo, 2KC Media) EAGLE BUTTE – As

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American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills name student Deshawna Anderson as 2020 Tribal College Blanket Contest Winner

‘The Courage to Bloom’ design was “influenced by the Apache and Crow cultural landscapes, from the Crazy Mountain Range in the Northern Rockies of Montana to the Salt River Canyon,” Anderson says. DENVER — The American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills, the international lifestyle brand headquartered in Portland,

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Cheyenne memories: The Buffalo Jump

Vore Buffalo JumpCOURTESY / Jaqueline Wyatt Part 1 The memories and oral history knowledge of John Stands In Timber, Northern Cheyenne tribal historian and elder were captured in Cheyenne Memories, Margot Liberty, 1972.  These memories painstakingly collected over the years are considered highly accurate. One of the memories came from

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Natives occupy Democratic National Committee Headquarters

TaSina Sapa Win holds her son as she stands against oil pipeline construction in Native treaty territory with other members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective during their intervention at a coalition occupation of the Democratic National Committee headquarters intended to make sure President-elect Joe Biden keeps campaign promises for

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EPA draws fire from OST

During EPA hearings in Hot Springs on Oct. 5, 2019, Misty Plenty Wolf was one of the 100 people who spoke against allowing Azarga Uranium Corp. to sink water wells in the Black Hills.COURTESY PHOTO PINE RIDGE – The EPA broke two federal laws on Nov. 24 by permitting underground

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MIGIZI rebounding from double whammy

Despite pandemic health issues over the summer, MIGIZI students were able to attend classes, like this HVAC course offered by the Minneapolis Community & Technical College, but another recent upsurge of coronavirus has pushed all programming online.COURTESY/MIGIZI MINNEAPOLIS – Only eight months after the grand opening of their recently renovated

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