This Lakota dancer in vibrantly colored full regalia was a contestant in the Dupree Wacipi dance contests to honor traditonal Lakota culture. (Photo courtesy of Patty Peacock) DUPREE – For the first time since 2018, the community enjoyed the 2025 Dupree Wacipi held July 11–13th. According to Jenny Jeffries, one
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CDKC Immersion Camp instructors:: Mina Seminole, coordinator; Christina Medicine Bull, St Labre; Alvera Cook, lame Deer Public Schools; Seidel Standing Elk, Lame Deer Public Schools; Lenora Wolfname, CDKC. LAME DEER, Mont. – Summer time is camping time: sports and educational camps for youth are ubiquitous. However, in Cheyenne Country, one
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Legislators attending a Redistricting Committee meeting Dec. 13, 2023, look at maps of different proposals. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor) Two North Dakota tribes and a group of tribal citizens have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep North Dakota’s district map in place while it considers whether to
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Former Mount Rushmore superintendent Cheryl Schreier speaking at Campus West. Photo by Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – The Sierra Club Black Hills Group hosted a meeting recently at the Game, Fish and Parks Campus West in Rapid City to give concerned citizens an update from former Mount Rushmore superintendent Cheryl
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Credit: The Washington Commanders, unveil their NFL football team’s new identity, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) President Donald Trump threatened to interrupt a new stadium deal for Washington’s National Football League team demanding the owner restore its old name of the R-word, a dictionary defined
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Ancient footprints at White Sands perhaps 23,000 years old (Photo courtesy of chrissysenecal.com) HILL CITY—Prominently located on Main Street in Hill City is the Black Hills Institute Museum, primarily focused on the fossils of extinct dinosaur and mammal megafauna. This fossil record is deep, and scientifically certain, but before fossils
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Bellingham, WA—The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations this week heard testimony from Tribes across the nation about the impacts of the drug crisis in Indian Country. The following statement from Tony Hillaire, chairman of the Lummi Nation, can be quoted in-full or in-part. “Indian Country has been hard hit
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Traffic court can result in a question of citizenship for individuals that don’t have a driver’s license, especially if they happen to be latino. This is a hardship on the Latino community in that if one is unable to present documents quickly, they are often suspected by others as being
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Artwork by Gene Swallow, Winner of the Publicity Award for Native POP 2025. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – It turned out to be a hot weekend for the Thirteenth Annual Native POP: People of the Plains two-day art market at Main Street Square in downtown Rapid City. This
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Sharon Howling Wolf, jockey for Howling Wolf Women’s Relay Team, Northern Cheyenne, rides to the win at Miles City, Season Opener (Photo by Wallace Bearchum) LAME DEER, Mont. – On Saturday, July 12, 2025 the Howling Wolf Indian Relay Team won first at the Horse Nations Indian Relay Competition at
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