LaCreek rep arrested on drug charges

Cora White Horse Pine Ridge LaCreek District Council Woman. Photo Courtesy Facebook PINE RIDGE — Normally when a public servant is arrested for drug related offenses, an internet search engine reveals stories and details. Not so with the arrest of Pine Ridge LaCreek District Councilwoman Cora White Horse. According to

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OST constitutional reform petition rejected by BIA

Jackie Siers and Valentina Merdanian, members of OST constitutional reform task force.Photo courtesy of Oyate Today PINE RIDGE— All across the country many tribes are calling for reform of their respective tribal constitution. This could be because of concerns over corruption, lack of representation, or inadequate or badly conceived laws.

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Rounds may have Primary challenger 

Scyller Borglum First-term State Representative Scyller Borglum announced her candidacy to challenge Sen. Mike Rounds for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. The South Dakota Democratic Party issued the following statement from SDDP Chair Paula Hawks in response: “Mike Rounds has spent his time in Washington following the other Senate

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Hazards of teaching the Lakota Language

EAGLE BUTTE— Mahto Luta was a Lakota warrior who lived near the close of the Nineteenth Century. He was the last of his line to have one name to identify himself; thereafter his male children, and their male children, would bear the surname of Red Bear their entire lives. Eventually

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Remove the Medals

Rep. Haaland shakes the hand of Marcella LeBeau, a World War II Veteran and strong supporter of The Remove the Stain Act.(Credit: Brian Mackley) PIERRE – Last week, both Native American and non-Native lawmakers introduced a bill to rescind the twenty Medals of Honor to the military men in action

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Senate passes bills on Indian economic development and self-governance

WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today announced that the United States Senate has approved two pieces of legislation he introduced to promote tribal economic development and self-governance. “We’ve worked to promote economic development and self-governance for tribal communities,” said Hoeven. “These bills

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Agoyo and Abourezk recipients of NAJA Awards

NAJA will recognize Acee Agoyo and Kevin Abourezk of Indianz.com as awardees during the 2019 National Native Media Conference set Sept. 15-18 in Prior Lake, Minnesota. NAJA selected Agoyo and Abourezk as the 2019 Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Reporting recipients. Their accomplishments will be highlighted during the award presentation ceremony set

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Little Big Horn – “Healing of the Horse Spirit”

Parading the Battlefield, Northern Cheyenne and Cheyenne River Sioux riders. Photo credit: Clara Cauflied (Battle of the Little Big Horn  (Crow Agency, Montana):  On June 25, 1876, thousands of tribal warriors, all horseback, filled the valley of the Little Big Horn (Greasy Grass, as the Cheyenne say), relying upon the

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Hispanic immigrants are mostly Indians

The Indio heritage of these detainees is obvious from the photo.Photo courtesy Tom Fox, AP RAPID CITY— Two salient facts stand out about immigration detention in the United States: most of the detainees come from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, according to the website Freedom for Immigrants, and these

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