PINE RIDGE — Red Cloud Renewable will host the Second Annual Earth Day Powwow on Saturday, April 25, bringing together dancers, families, and community members from across the Pine Ridge Reservation and the region. The celebration will run from sunrise to sunset at the Pine Ridge Powwow Grounds, with
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Waya Brown, who is Apache and Pomo, dances in a circle at Oak Flat campground on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, near Superior, Arizona. RNS photo by Alejandra Molina SUPERIOR, Ariz. – For nearly twenty years, the fight over Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel) has stood at the center of one of
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Some of the Greenpeace team hold up a banner outside the Morton County Memorial Courthouse in Mandan, North Dakota March 16, 2025. © Stephanie Keith / Greenpeace MANDAN, N.D. – Greenpeace organizations in the U.S. and Greenpeace International announce they will seek a new trial and, if necessary, appeal the
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced more than $21 million in grant awards that will fund 84 projects for 61 Tribes in 13 states that will reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries on Native American and Alaska Native lands. The grants, provided under the
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Jay Trenhaile, an adjunct professor at South Dakota State University and former head of the counseling program, with an SDSU counseling student. BROOKINGS – The people who were among the first to be able to call themselves “counselors” were members of what’s now a little known specialization. The first counselors
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Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, ending a turbulent tenure marked by operational failures, public controversy, and a series of investigations that had eroded confidence in her leadership. The president simultaneously announced that Sen. Markwayne Mullin,
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U.S. Senate Markwayne Mullin Last week, the only Native American in the U.S. Senate, Markwayne Mullin, was nominated by President Donald J. Trump to join his cabinet as Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. Here are four things to know about him. Background Markwayne Mullin grew up on a
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The OneHeart Transformation Campus located at 217 Kansas City Street in Rapid City. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Rapid City Council decided to issue a notice of non-renewal for One Heart, under the lease’s automatic renewal clause. Ward 1 Council Member Stephen Tamang had made the request for
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Wihopa: Agnus Ross “Keeper of the Female Medicine Bundle: Biography of Wíh.opa,” written by her son, Allen Charles Ross,Ehanamani. FLANDREAU — Agnes “Wíhopa” Ross was born along the banks of Wakpa Ipkásan, the Big Sioux River, where the land remembers everything and the water carries the stories of those who
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South Dakota Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks to members of the media at the Capitol in Pierre on Feb. 12, 2026. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Starting July 1, tribal police helping their state or local counterparts will be recognized as law enforcement officers under South Dakota law. Gov.
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