Part of a bison skull and other bones after being catalogued and placed in climate-controlled storage at SD Mines. RAPID CITY— Between 1993 and 1995, a team of archeologists undertook an excavation of prehistoric animal bones in the Deerfield area of the Black Hills. They found bison, mountain lion, deer,
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Bison are released into a section of Badlands National Park in South Dakota in October 2019. This particular area was recently secured for their use — an area Bison have not roamed since 1870. BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK – Today with 50 people watching, the first snowstorm of the fall laying
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Larissa Grinnell is a Master Student at Headlines Academy in Rapid City. She will be graduating in December, 2019, and one day hopes to own her own business. (Photo by Richie Richards) RAPID CITY – A young woman is making a name for herself in the cosmetology and hairstyling industry,
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Zuya Akicita Color Guard L-R: William Takes Him First, Shawnee Red Bear, Sid Reddest, Al Loafer, Kim Conroy, Cornell Reddest, Rodney Bad Hand. (Photo Courtesy: Shawnee Red Bear) PINE RIDGE – Beginning on the day after Veteran’s Day this year, a group of veterans and their supporters will walk across
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Rosebud Sioux member Hannah Reddish, a resident of Pennington County on the slated Keystone XL Pipeline route, was one of the self-proclaimed water protectors at a recent rally in Rapid City who carried posters to raise awareness of the construction’s threats. (Photo by Talli Nauman) PART III PIERRE – Bracing
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Dr. Stanley Weber, of Spearfish, South Dakota, arrives at the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota on Wednesday morning, Nov. 1, 2017. Weber was present for a hearing in relation to the allegations he is facing involving sexual abuse of minors. The
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Accusing our loved one of being “overly sensitive” or having “no sense of humor” doesn’t change the fact that they are feeling pain because of something we have said or done. Guest blogger Stephanie Quattrocki shares her thoughts on the impact anger has on relationships and how to heal. “I
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Laurie Blessing, of Whitefish, stands with a sign outside the Wilma Theater near the Higgins Avenue bridge in 2018 with a group of supporters for a rally held by the Buffalo Field Campaign. The group has filed two lawsuits in seeking to have FOIA requests fulfilled. CHELSEA CULP, Missoulian MISSOULA,
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EAGLE BUTTE — Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold C. Frazier has decided to run for president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). Frazier released a statement on Friday saying he accepted the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association’s request to run for the presidency of NCAI. Frazier says
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Keith Anderson, member of the Nansemond Indian Nation and director of the American Indian dance troupe Red Crooked Sky, joined fellow troupe member Nikki Bass at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington earlier this year. The District and other jurisdictions in the Washington region have passed legislation to change the
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