CRST member Tanner Veo crowned Mr. AIHEC BISMARCK, N.D. – The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) selected Cheyenne River Lakota tribal member Tanner Veo to be Mr. AIHEC 2024 at its annual Student Conference held in Minneapolis, MN, March 9 -12, 2024. The Mr/Ms/Mx AIHEC competition is intended to
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Noem with attendees at the meeting in the Black Hills about co-stewardship of the land and water and protection of Pe Sla and other Sacred Site, between the Forest Service and Tribal leaders. (Courtesy Noem’s Facebook page.) RAPID CITY – The U.S. Forest Service hosted the Pe Sla Sacred Sites
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Ernest Little Mouth, Sr. Northern Cheyenne Tribal Vice President Part 2 of a series LAME DEER, Mont. – As reported in part 1 of this series, in 2020, the National Park Service (NPS) received a grant of 4.5 million to build a new Visitors Center and expanded interpretive services at
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Chantelle Blue Arm interviewing Steve Vance, Ben Rhodd, his son and Russell Eagle Bear who have been coming to what is now known as Black Elk Peak for 37 years for a ceremony that Welcomes Back the Wakinyan Oyate. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) BLACK ELK PEAK – Each spring
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Cante Heart, Bobbi Koch, Gene Tyon and Valeriah Big Eagle RAPID CITY – On March 18, 2024 supporters of the non-profit He Sapa Otipi were hugging and crying tears of joy after action by the Rapid City Council allowing them to finally move forward on their plan to build an
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Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out gives thanks to Robert Kennedy Jr. for his family’s commitment to the Lakota people and presented a star quilt from the Oglala community. Photo by Darren Thompson LAS VEGAS – Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. recently made an official campaign stop with
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Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter Marcella Gilbert On February 26, 2024, the Warrior Women Project hosted a day-long reunion in Rapid City and an oral history gathering of the We Will Remember Survival School (WWRSS) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school. The celebration honored
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Photo Credit/Northern Cheyenne Land Owners Association LAME DEER, MT. – On March 20, 2024, a small group of landowners from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation convened. Their purpose – to revitalize the tribal landowner’s association. That formerly was a group of allottees, organized to voice the concerns of such individual landowners.
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Event at Lamb Park. Family members of Debra Black Crow, an Oglala Lakota woman, gather every March 10 at Floyd Lamb Park on the day she was killed by her ex-husband while 7 months pregnant in 1997. Photo by Darren Thompson LAS VEGAS—On Sunday, March 10, a dozen people gathered
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, led a group of senators urging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to allow for the compassionate release of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier. Mr. Peltier, who has been imprisoned for the past 49 years
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