Chairman Harold Frazier leads Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe riders who arrived at Ft. Laramie in Wyoming in April 2018 for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty. Photo by Richie Richards LARAMIE, Wyo. – The 2020 Oceti Sakowin Gathering of treaty nations and councils here
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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 3, 2020
LAME DEER, Mont. – Over the past few weeks the COVID has devastated the Northern Cheyenne Reservation and continues its deadly assault upon the Crow Reservation. Big Horn and Rosebud Counties, along with Yellowstone (home to Billings, the primary shopping center for both reservations] now top the State’s list of
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Rock The Native Vote 2020 set up census support stands, including this one at Norman First American United Methodist Church in Oklahoma. PHOTO COURTESY / RTNV NORMAN, Oklahoma — After an August federal directive to shorten the 2020 Census outreach period jarred the nation, Indian organizations redoubled efforts to make
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Native Women motorcyclists led the Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride 2020 during the annual bike rally, the purpose being to raise awareness about the crisis resulting from failure to protect sisters vulnerable to human trafficking and meet out justice to lawbreakers. Photo by Talli Nauman PART II
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Washington, D.C. – With the U.S. Postal Service under assault from the Trump Administration, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (N.M.-01) introduced a bill that will empower Americans to support vote by mail. The Vote by Mail Stamp Act creates a new stamp to join the ranks of other semipostal stamps, including the Breast
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1.) Do not look for inconsistencies in the story line. ■ This will make our partner feel as though they need to edit their words in their head and doing so with impact their ability to authentically express themselves. This also creates a dynamic where the facts are given far
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger August 26, 2020
The antidote to an excessive tendency to blame ourselves is to realize that: The issue is not guilt, fault or blame; the issue is human imperfection. We are still worthwhile human beings in spite of what happened. It was not a crime and we are not guilty. A more appropriate
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U.S. Senate Candidate Dan Ahlers, a Democrat, will go up against former governor and incumbent Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican, in November. It’s been twelve years since South Dakota elected a Democrat for the United States Senate. Dan Ahlers is hoping to change that in November. Ahlers is attempting to
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Julian Bear Runner PINE RIDGE RESERVATION — Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner is back on the job after he was suspended with pay for 30-days and two weeks in quarantine last month. Bear Runner was suspended following his executive order for an immediate 72-hour lockdown of Pine Ridge. Council members
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RAPID CITY – Native Sun News Today will not publish for the next two weeks because of the threat of the Coronavirus. We have staff and management with pre-existing conditions who are very vulnerable to the illness. It is our estimate that with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Trump
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