The Kinney family from Rapid City. Nearly seven million Americans in the United States are adopted. In 2015, more than six-hundred seventy thousand children spent time in our foster care system. One out of every twenty-five families with children have an adoptive child. Families adopt for a number of reasons,
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Mark Tilsen RAPID CITY – The grassroots statewide non-profit Dakota Rural Action has invited international award-winning native community leader Nick Tilsen to headline its Oct. 4 public Rally for Clean Water, as Lakota Territory residents gear up for hearings on proposed uranium mining in the Black Hills’ aquifers. The admission-free
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Above this photo is the first NAJA Board of Directors. Left to right, Loren Tapahe, Vice President, Publisher of the Navajo Times, Mary Polanco, Secretary, Editor of the Jicarilla Chieftain, Anita Austin, Treasurer, Editor of the Native American Rights Fund Newsletter, and Tim Giago, President, Editor and Publisher of the
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The most recent episode of Oyate Today featured Whitney Rencountre and Stephen Yellow Hawk of the Black Hills Powwow Association. The powwow has grown to become one of the largest in the nations and continues to grow. RAPID CITY – The hit television show Oyate Today, filmed in Rapid City,
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Controversial photo, allegedly of 38 Dakota hanged by Lincoln’s executive order in 1862. There appears to be 38 men in the photo, and they do appear to be in everyday clothes, not traditional dress attire as alleged by many questioning the authenticity of the photo. NEW ULM, MN— Getting a
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RAPID CITY – A federal trial jury here convicted former Pine Ridge Indian Health Service pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber on Sept. 27 of all 11 criminal counts charging him with sexually abusing four boys while employed as a physician at Pine Ridge Indian Health Service from 1995 to 2011. Prosecuting
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The local residents refer to the stretch of road replaced near the Yankton Sioux Tribal housing in Lake Andes as “Noem Highway.” The state had raised this road to prevent flooding into the tribal community. Two weeks later it was under feet of water, and ironically created a dam for
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When we allow people to vent their feelings and bare their frustrations, we might feel that the conflict is just getting worse. Often we can benefit by staying with the conflict a little while longer. Reversing an old saying, we could be witnessing the storm before the calm. Once people
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Shared by Aaron Karmin, LCPC, Contributing Blogger October 5, 2019
Buddy and daughter Stardust Red Bow. Photo courtesy: Stardust Red Bow Many have memories of Buddy Red Bow’s music. In our living room in Huron, Red Bow’s records shared shelf space alongside our other beloved outlaws: Willie, Waylon, and the boys. My mother, playing and replaying “Standing Alone” on our
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With encouragement from Oyate For Fairness & Equal Representation (OFFER), Rosebud Sioux tribal members took part in counting ballots at the Cherry-Todd Electric Cooperative’s 70th Annual Meeting and Election for board directors. COURTESY / Rosebud Cordier VALENTINE, Nebraska – It seemed like a long-time a-coming, but three days after the
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