Girls setting table at St Francis Mission (Photo courtesy of Digital Public Library of America) PIERRE —In continuing the coverage on the harmful legacy of Catholic schools on South Dakota Indian reservations, a closer look at more recent (in the new millennium) cases brought against two of the educational
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Pictured: Senator Lisa Murkowski (left) with Ms. Liz La quen náay Medicine Crow at SCIA Hearing on June 22, 2022 WASHINGTON, DC – This week, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) held an oversight hearing on “Volume 1 of the Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding
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gofund.me/07862136 Tim Giago, owner/publisher of Native Sun News Today, is the original founder of seven Native American Newspapers/Magazines over the last forty years. Mr. Giago has paved the way for countless journalists, bringing hard-hitting Native American issues to light, helping change policies at a local, state and national level. Tim
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San Juan County, UT: This rock art faces the San Juan River, in the general area of the River House ruins (accessible by rafting the river, by Jeep or ATV). Photo by Sonya Doctorian. May 1, 2015 WHITE MESA, UT —At a signing ceremony on Saturday, the Bureau of Land
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Souoth Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has been removed from office PIERRE — The South Dakota Senate voted on Tuesday to uphold the articles of impeachment offered by the House removing Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office. The Senate also voted unanimously to keep Ravnsborg from ever again holding elective
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Rendering of the new Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center expansion STILWELL, OK. — The Cherokee Nation celebrated the completion of a $30 million expansion to the Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center in Stilwell Monday. The expansion added 80,000 square feet of new space for more services to care for the
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Ray Taken Alive STANDING ROCK—Race relations can get sticky regarding Natives and white men when it comes to tribal language, customs and traditions. A good example is the recent conflict between certain members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Lakota Language Consortium (LLC). The LLC has been working
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VILLISCA, IOWA—For a unique travel story, there’s nothing like a spooky house where something went terribly wrong. This particular house, located in Iowa, witnessed a crime involving eight victims, six children, and to this date, no one has been convicted of the crime. For the backstory, the house was known
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Lieut. Col. George Custer and Crazy Horse fighting at the Battle of the Little Bighorn by the artist Kills Two. “Look for worms, at this distance the horse herd will look like worms on the grass,” said one of the Crow scouts as day was barely breaking on the morning
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MIT to host indigenous and antiracist innovators summit CAMBRIDGE, MA –Solve is set to host their Indigenous and Antiracist Innovators Summit in an engaging two-day, in-person event held June 16 – 17 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a mission
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