1910 Pendleton, Oregon Round Up Pow Wow (Photo courtesy pininterest.com) History wastes little time distorting who people were, why they did the things they did, and unless a given piece of history was lucky enough to have a skilled, principled scholar on hand to jot down every important particular, perhaps
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Imitating a Kimimila (butterfly) Sophia Benally gave a stunning exhibition of the women’s fancy dance to those who gathered at Prairie Edge as a preview of the upcoming powwow. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa) RAPID CITY – Once again, the heartbeat of Ina Maka will reverberate throughout the foothills of
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SIOUX FALLS—The latest set of social studies standards for South Dakota’s K-12 public schools are an example of ongoing colonialism and discrimination against Indigenous students and tribes in South Dakota, the ACLU of South Dakota said in a letter submitted to the Board of Education Content Standards ahead of its
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Photo: The 2022-23 American Indian College Fund Student Ambassador cohort. Left to right: Julianna Benge (Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation), Shannon Taylor (White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation), Chantel Pewewardy (Comanche Nation), Randy Estrin (Ketchikan Indian Community and Central Council of Tlingit Haida Indian
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RAPID CITY—NDN Collective, an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power, announces the opening of applications for the fourth year of the NDN Changemaker Fellowship. The Changemaker Fellowship will be offered to 21 Indigenous Changemakers across the continental U.S., Canada, Mexico, Islands of Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana
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President Biden signs a new initiative to preserve Native languages in the United States. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Education and Health and Human Services today announced that the annual Native Languages Summit will be held on Oct. 4 in Oklahoma City. The Speaking Sovereignty Summit – which
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Sacheen Littlefeather in 1973 when she took the stage on behalf of Marlon Brando, to decline his Academy Award for Best Actor. LOS ANGELES—Almost fifty years after Sacheen Littlefeather took the stage on behalf of Marlon Brando, to decline his Academy Award for Best Actor, the Academy of Motion Picture
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No more iconic and disturbing photo of Wounded Knee exists than this tragic death photo of Chief Big Foot. WOUNDED KNEE—A recent resolution from the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) announced that the tribe had entered into a “real estate purchase and sales agreement for the Czywczynski property at Wounded Knee.”
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Ghost Dance of the Sioux, print from a wood engraving, 1891. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C WOUNDED KNEE – For more than a century, there have been misconceptions about the identity of the victims of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre. Because the site is within the boundaries of the Oglala
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A Lakota tipi stood as the main focal point at the 19th Annual Indian Education Summit. (Photo by Estella Claymore) RAPID CITY– Okolakicize! Okolakiciyapi! “Working together as one, for the betterment of all!” This was the theme for this year’s 19th annual South Dakota Indian Education Summit held September 8-9,
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