Lakota man killed by Rapid City Police By Joseph Budd Native Sun News Today Staff Writer Recently a case was reported of an individual being killed at private home by police officers. The homeowner returned home and found the place showing signs of entry, and contacted the police. When
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Center for Disease Control COVID Update By Clara Caufield, NSNT Correspondent This is the second article about the Center for Disease Control (CDC) work on the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential lingering after-effects afflicting many, often called “Long Haulers” Or “Long COVID”. In conjunction with the National Institute of
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Santee Sioux Gospel Music – Saving the language By Clara Caufield, NSNT Correspondent This segment of the Language Preservation Series was suggested and explained by Jim James, Santee Sioux, Nebraska, former tribal chairman, one of the tribal historians and acclaimed singer of translated Sioux gospel songs. “Gospel songs
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Economic discrimination in housing By Joseph Budd Native Sun News Today Staff Writer Sometimes discrimination is strong enough one can’t ignore it. Other times, it’s a subtle effort, ingrained by the way a system works, and designed to punish people. Rapid City, the largest city in the western South
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West charged with the murder of three By Joseph Budd Native Sun News Today Staff Writer Elijah West, 24 years old, has been charged in the deaths of three people on Pine Ridge Reservations on Friday, April 15th. According to records, the deaths involved Jamie Graham, 38, Alma Garneaux,
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Tourism: Badlands, and a Stronghold Table By Joseph Budd Native Sun News Today Columnist Growing up in Rapid City, I do recall, events that stood out as being repeated by my folks. One, was they would take a trip up to Bear Butte, and hike to the summit, and
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1950 U.S. Census release provides volunteer opportunity to learn, support local history FARGO, N.D. — Have you ever wondered about what Great-Uncle Joe did for a living in Hillsboro, North Dakota? Wanted to know where great-grandparents who lived on a farm in North Dakota were born? These mysteries and
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Blackfeet Tribal Chairman removed By Clara Caufield Native Sun News Today Correspondent An recent incident on the Blackfeet Reservation, Browning, Montana sharply illustrates how the drug abuse epidemic on the Great Plains Reservations is having devastating effects on entire communities, reaching out to touch of lives of even the
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Churches face boarding-school reckoning By Peter Smith As Native Americans cautiously welcome Pope Francis’ historic apology for abuses at Catholic-run boarding schools for Indigenous children in Canada, U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their own legacies of operating such schools. © Provided by Associated Press Indigenous
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Chairman Frazier’s statement on Noem’s executive order. EAG;LE BUTTE – “The Governor of the state of South Dakota has made it clear that the United States is not responsible for any of its actions. In true dictator fashion she is forbidding the educators of our children to
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