Hobart Lone Hill in his two-fisted boxing prime. (Photo courtesy Mark Lonehill) RAPID CITY—Sixty-seven years after Hobart Lonehill hung up his gloves, he and older brother Edgar are 2025 inductees into the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. Born in 1932, and four years older than Hobart, Edgar was a
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PLS dig expanded in 2022 that straddles Sturgis Road. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Pete Lien and Sons (PLS) from Rapid City want to drill for graphite near Pe’ Sla, a high mountain prairie that is a sacred site of the Lakota people. The project proposed, called the
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Duane Two Bulls- BHCWA Organizer, Sam Olbekson- CEO FCIP&D/ (HSO) Architect, Cante Heart- He Sapa Otipi (HSO) Executive Director, Anissa Martin NDN Organizer, Harriet Clown Horse/Brings- Oceti Sakowin Community Academy, Ailine Clown Horse-Maea- HSO Executive Assistant RAPID CITY – In an unprecedented act of collective momentum, He Sapa Otipi announces
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U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tours the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) CHANDLER, Ariz. — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent time in tribal communities in Arizona and New Mexico this week highlighting ways they are
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Ron His Horse is Thunder ALEXANDRIA, VA – The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) expresses great sorrow at the passing of longtime Tribal College leader Ron His Horse Is Thunder on March 26, 2025. A descendant of Sitting Bull, His Horse Is Thunder (Hunkpapa Lakota) was an educator, lawyer,
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Principal Lundeen talking with members of NDN Collective, one of the vendors. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Central High School sponsored a Community Night on Tuesday evening for the families and students of Central High School and North Middle School eighth grade students. The evening featured a meal,
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Hobart Lonehill RAPID CITY— Any tribal community is going to produce some great athletes, and the Rapid City Indian Community is no exception, starting in the 1950’s with basketball star Vince Whipple at Rapid City High. But back in the 1950’s another sport made the top of the sports pages
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James Lay, 67, and son Sam, 27, both of Rapid City, S.D., wait in line at a Feeding South Dakota mobile food bank on March 27, 2025, in Box Elder, S.D. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch) BOX ELDER, S.D. – Montana Roem is worried that a proposed
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Joe Medicine Crow received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest civilian honor awarded in the United States) from President Barack Obama on August 12, 2009.[14] During the White House ceremony, Obama referred to Medicine Crow as bacheitche, or a “good man,” in the Crow language. (Photo courtesy Wikipedia) As
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Morning Star Elite crew: Cedric Neal, Master Barber; Bobbi Jo Limberhand, owner and Lucas Morrision, barber and weekday manager. Customer is one-year old Rylee Tallbull. (Photo by Clara Caufield) LAME DEER, Mont. – Used to be that in Lame Deer, MT if a person needed a haircut, trim or spiffy
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