The late Marcella LeBeau and U.S. Senator Mike Rounds. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced the Marcella LeBeau Recognition Act to designate the federal office building in Pierre as the “Marcella LeBeau Federal Building.” Born in Promise, LeBeau was a lifelong
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RAPID CITY – More than a dozen Indigenous communities welcomed over 540 buffalo, also known as American bison, back to ancestral grazing lands across the nation late last year as part of a multi-state, Indigenous-led initiative by the InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC), Tanka Fund and partner The Nature Conservancy
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Valerie Siqueiros regularly attends IPAC meetings, council sessions and events with a smile. Here she and her 14-year-old daughter Christina are pictured participating in a Halloween costume contest at Sacred Pipe Resource Center in October 2024. (Photo by Cheryl Kary) BISMARCK, ND – On a crisp December evening in 2023,
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Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president Monday, commuted the life sentence of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier. RAPID CITY—After a half century of incarceration, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist, Leonard Peltier, has had his sentence commuted on the final day of Joe Biden’s presidency.
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Beds inside the Flathead Warming Center in Kalispell, MT. (Photo courtesy Flathead Warming Center) RAPID CITY – In the face of growing homelessness crisis, advocates continue to ask the city to create a shelter for the homeless and houseless relatives in Rapid City. Advocates say that the “warming center” proposal
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People protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota on Thanksgiving Day 2016. Cassi Alexandra for NPR STANDING ROCK—Although Indian Country is not presently focused on Standing Rock’s battle with Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the battle still
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Deaconess Hospital, Billings, Montana, where our Navasin Clara Caufield spent Christmas. Having recently experienced an unsatisfactory bout with the I.H.S. Purchased Referred Care (PRC) program, I was explaining the pitfalls of the program to a tribal friend who has a Ph.D. “Write about it,” he suggested. “They (the IHS) doesn’t
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The Oyate Topa Treaty Council is hosting a reservation wide meeting on January 29, 2025, at the Cheyenne River Motel conference room, 24348 US Hwy 212, Eagle Butte, SD, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The gathering aims to “plant seeds of hope and awareness,” inviting participation from all tribes
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Johnson calls for hearing on federal failures in Indian Education WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) called on the House Committees on Natural Resources and Education & Workforce to hold an oversight hearing on the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and the dire state of Indian education.
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Tori Standing Cloud SIOUX FALLS, SD – Tori Standing Cloud (Rosebud Lakota) is a full-time mental health counselor at the 988 Helpline Center in Sioux Falls, SD since February, 2024. She is also a full-time graduate student at the University of South Dakota on track to receive her Master’s in
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