Riders from the Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho and Lakota tribes making their annual ride across the Battle of the Greasy Grass battlegrounds. (Photo by Diane Spotted Elk) BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN SITE, CROW AGENCY, Mont. — Though it was an extremely sultry day, as it must have also been
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Grand entry at the inaugeral Battle of Greasy Grass Mniluzahan Victory Day Commemoration held at Woyatan Church powwow grounds. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID CITY – There may be efforts to wipe the history books clean of the genocidal assault on Native Americans, but Native Americans will never forget
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Young girls at Kiza Park displaying a sign they had made that read, “Custer had it coming.” (Photo by Mia Feroletto) KIZA PARK – Following two days of 100 degree temperatures, Tuesday was a relief in the high 80s with a wonderful breeze and mixture of sun and clouds. Everyone
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Darrow Pits, an old, abandoned uranium mine north of Edgemont. Photo from Rapid City Journal provided by BHCWA. BLACK HILLS – It’s a new mining boom in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Traditional mining for gold and oil and gas has given way to new and sometimes
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The Federal Committee on Reconciliation Place Names recommended changing the name of Devils Tower to Bear Lodge, which is the English translation from the Lakota name, Mato Tipila. (Photo courtesy NPS) RAPID CITY – The Federal Committee on Reconciliation Place Names Processes and Principles Subcommittee met in Rapid City at
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Rapid City Common Council members meet to discuss Vision Fund changes. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – At the end of the recent City Council meeting, an angry Ward 2 Alderman Bill Evans suggested altogether eliminating the tax that feeds the Vision Fund. This after changes to the Vision
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DelMarie Bradford (Oglala), Barbara Dull Knife (Oglala), and Violet Catches (Minnecoujou) enjoy gathering to honor White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman. GREEN GRASS – On June 8, 2024, Ms. Vivian High Elk (Cheyenne River Lakota) of the Green Grass, SD community hosted an estimated 300 relatives with a traditional meal and
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Former OST President Julian Bear Runner in front of Federal Courthouse in Rapid City. A federal judge, Linda Reade, has sentenced Julian Bear Runner, the former president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, to 22 months in prison for committing crimes such as wire fraud, larceny, embezzlement, and theft from an
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PINE RIDGE – About a mile or so up Tobacco Road in Pine Ridge, sits a cabin that Cindy Catches shared with her husband, medicine man Peter Catches until his death in 2018. Cindy was raised in a coal mining community in the mountains of West Virginia and had a
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A century later: On June 10, following the “Re-Imagining Citizenship” event in Bismarck, N.D., Cheryl Kary, the executive director at Sacred Pipe Resource Center, displayed a photo of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s 1924 observance of the Indian Citizenship Act passage. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame) A federal official spoke a hundred
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