Everyone tells new parents how hard it’s going to be. But you can’t really know till you’re there yourself, sleep deprived, wanting to do your best at this very important job, and always feeling overwhelmed by the demands. This is an especially hard time for couples. A lot of people
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Terray Sylvester / Reuters Dakota Access Pipeline protesters square off against police near the Standing Rock Reservation and the pipeline route outside the little town of Saint Anthony, North Dakota on Oct. 5, 2016. Jonathan Klett, Liminal Films Rattler, legal name Michael Markus, is a 46-year-old Marine veteran who
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Dave Strain RAPID CITY – Dave Strain, aged 88, passed away in Rapid City on Thursday, January 2nd. Strain was long-time and successful head coach of the Central Cobbler’s boy’s basketball team, a South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame inductee, and, prominently, an advocate for Native American basketball and players.
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Supaman, Christian Takes Gun Parrish, of the Apsaalooke Nation will perform at the Matthews Opera House in Deadwood, Friday January 17. SPEARFISH – Montana based Native American Hip Hop Artist Supaman performing at the Matthews Opera House on Friday, January 17 as part of the current Subscription Series season. The
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RAPID CITY – John Forkenbrock, a nationally recognized scholar of federally funded education, gave a talk on December 19 at the 41st Lakota Nation Education Conference. The conference took place from December 16 – 19, 2019 at the Ramkota convention center and Forkenbroch’s talk was about the history of funding
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The cover photo of “Bibigwan: The Flute” is reproduced from a wet plate ambrotype photograph made by Shane Balkowitsch, using a revived technique Edward S. Curtis employed to document 19th Century American Indian life. Photo COURTESY / Darren Thompson RAPID CITY — Flautist Darren Thompson’s Ojibway and Tohono O’odham roots
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When we find the causes of our problems, we don’t find “sick” inner parts; we find old assumptions, old beliefs, old expectations, old commitments, or old goals that we now see as limited. We feel excited about finally finding the inner sources of our problems, and we want to change
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We are surrounded by material things designed to give us the good life, a life of pleasure. We have medications to relieve the suffering of our aches and pains. It is ironic that we still find ways to suffer, to hide from the possibility of happiness. Our possessions are supposed
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In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, Gerald Gray, chairman of Montana’s Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians, poses at the advertising agency where he works in Billings, Mont. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019 approved a measure under which the federal government would formally recognize the
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The Wo Otuh’an Wi Toy Drive serves more than 1,700 Lakota children in South Dakota on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. LOUISVILLE, CO — Each year, the attorneys and staff at Fredericks Peebles & Patterson LLP in Louisville, Colorado, join forces with the nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project in Eagle
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