Red Cloud Indian School Boys basketball team against Cheyenne Eagle Butte Braves (Courtesy Photo) Events that normally take place annually in Rapid City and the Black Hills have joined the evolving conversation of whether or not to host patrons this year. The Lakota Nation Invitational organizers are keeping a close
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ALBUQUERQUE – The Governor of New Mexico, has extended a state of emergency order for the town of Gallup, a border town near the Navajo reservation, as the numbers of cases of the coronavirus have increased in the area. The order from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was set to
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With a capacity to support 1,500 animals, the Wolakota Buffalo Range will become North America’s largest Native American owned and managed bison herd. MISSION – Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO), the economic arm of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, has committed nearly 28,000 acres of native grassland for the creation of
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WASHINGTON – Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced bipartisan legislation with Senators Tom Udall (D-AZ) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) to expand Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) coverage to urban Indian organizations, giving them a desperately needed boost in resources as many suffer critical supply shortages, closures, and
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More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 from Oklahoma to starving Irish families during the potato famine. A sculpture in County Cork commemorates the generosity of the tribe, itself poor. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness, giving to a charity drive for two
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“Our elders and youth need to be assured that we care for them and all our Cheyenne people. We are battling an unseen enemy that enemy is covid-19. Prayers for all. May Maheo watch over all us in this time of uncertainty.” Paul Three Fingers LAME DEER, MONT. – Though
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Walt Swan, owner of HeSapa Enterprises and Rapid City Common Council Ward 4 candidate RAPID CITY – Walt Swan Jr., an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and self-described “old school Rapid Citian,” is running for Rapid City Common Council in Ward 4. Swan grew up in Rapid
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Isaac Neiss succeeded in claiming his Covid-19 Economic Impact Payment, but it meant jumping through some hoops. His story is the first episode in our exposé on the hurdles for others like him in Indian country. (Photo by Talli Nauman) PART I RAPID CITY – Ronald “Isaac” Neiss figured he
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ALBUQUERQUE – The Governor of New Mexico, has extended a state of emergency order for the town of Gallup, a border town near the Navajo reservation, as the numbers of cases of the coronavirus have increased in the area. The order from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was set to
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As 574 tribal governments awaited federal CARES Act funding, a reservation non-profit organization, Pine Ridge Emergency Relief, produced a poster encouraging people to take individual responsibility for public health during the Covid-19 viral pandemic. COURTESY / Pine Ridge Emergency Relief WASHINGTON. – After dozens of tribal governments sued the U.S.
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