Marcella Gilbert, her assistant Janie Ducheneaux, and volunteers from the Sioux YMCA in Dupree plus other volunteers from the community worked together to plant the 400 tiny choke cherry trees that are now full-grown and thriving. (Courtesy photo) Chokecherries are sacred to the Lakota. At one time they were so
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) this week urged U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to direct the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to provide additional support to tribal law enforcement agencies in South Dakota to help combat
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Mary Bordeaux and Peter Strong at Racing Magpie RAPID CITY –Racing Magpie, through a partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation, has launched an exciting new funding opportunity for Lakota visual creatives. This program – Sinew Fund – brings a unique visual arts-based funding opportunity to Lakota Country. Lakota visual creatives
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This photo by Keith Johnson shows one of the 770 homes destroyed by the 1972 flood. Photo courtesy of the Rapid City Public Library. Bottom: (Photo courtesy of the State Historical Society) RAPID CITY—Thousands of stories have been and will be written about the June 9, 1972, Rapid City Flood,
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Manny Iron Hawk (Okowozu), Emanuel Red Bear (Oohenumpa), and Harry Little Thunder (seated; Itazipco). They are of the Wakpa Wasté area (Cheyenne River). The Lakota Oyate Topa Treaty Council (LOTTC) from Wakpa Waste’ (Cheyenne River) gathered with Native treaty activists from several states and Canada for a regional Treaty Summit in Rapid
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Dustin Sene new superintendent of Little Big Horn National Monument. (Photo courtesy National Park Service) CROW AGENCY, Mont. — The National Park Service (NPS) announced the selection of Dustin Sene as superintendent of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. He will begin his new assignment on June 4. Sene has worked for
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WASHINGTON, June 6, 2023 — The American Bar Association Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice will honor Native American rights trailblazer and activist John E. Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund. The award will be presented at a dinner celebration honoring his distinguished career during the
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Jonathan Windy Boy On March 30, 2023, the Catholic church, by way of a Vatican press release, officially repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery. Montana State Representative Jonathan Windy Boy, Chippewa Cree suggested this story. He hopes to introduce legislation to get the State of Montana to concur. That will have
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John McKendree, Mississippi Chapter of Rolling Thunder, Lettie Irons Connell, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, 2016 Battle of the Little Big Horn Anniversary, (Photo courtesy) Not all military heroes served on the front lines. One such who has served in the background is Lettie Irons Connell, Standing Rock Sioux. Connell, seventy-five
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Christopher A. Piña, Felipa DeLeon-Mousseau, Eltina Threestars and Muffie Mousseau are looking forward to the upcoming Two Spirit Wacipi in the Black Hills. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan) RAPID CITY – Two brave Lakota Winyan (women) have conquered the stigma and paved a path for other Two-Spirit Natives. Monique “Muffie” Mousseau
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