Indigenous Cacique (Chief) Francisco Ramirez Rojas, known as Cacique Panchito, in blue-green jacket, greets Canadian Ambassador to Cuba Geoff Gartshore in a breakthrough diplomatic meeting for Indigenous Cubans on Dec. 3, 2023, in the remote mountains of the island nation. Credit: Photo by Geovani Ramirez, courtesy of Cuba Indigeneity Project
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People walk through the parking lot of the Lummi Tribal Health Center on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Washington. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File) (This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com) Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years
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NDN Collective Land Back in Alaska. (Courtesy photo) CORDOVA, AK – Last week, NDN Collective, through the organization’s community development arm, NDN Holdings, finalized a LANDBACK deal with the Eyak Community Land Trust (ECLT) in Alaska, transferring title to a parcel of land on an island commonly known as Sea
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Little Wound High School senior Tingleska Rooks Little Wound High School senior Tingleska Rooks will be featured as part of KOTA Territory News’ Rising Star of the West scholarship contest Thursday February 26th on KOTA Territory News on FOX at 6:00 and 9:00. Rooks qualified for the contest by submitting
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L-R: Betty Jean Handley (White Bear Woman), Christopher Piña, Shaylene Cordero, and her daughter Rosalee. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – On a breezy but unseasonably warm February Saturday in Rapid City, a small family gathering for an 86th birthday became an awakening in the lobby of the Hotel
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Two markers that the National Park Service have been ordered to be removed from the Little Bighorn Battlefield by the Trump administration’s purge of so called “anti-American ideology.” (Courtesy photo) LAME DEER, Mont. – Unless the tribal stake holders in the Battle of the Little Big Horn can deter it,
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Alli Moran of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. (Photo by Eunice Straight Head) EAGLE BUTTE – When Alli Moran (Cheyenne River Lakota) was a young child, her mother Shelley Moran Alkire would say to her, “When you are older and go to Washington, D.C., to speak for your people…” There was
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Rim of Craven Canyon in the Black Hills. (Photo from Dakota Rural Action website) FALL RIVER – Things are moving quickly now. There is a public comment period underway for citizens to comment on exploratory uranium drilling in Craven Canyon, as well as a public hearing next month. The canyon
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Dignity Statue by Dale Claude Lamphere in Chamberlain, SD. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) CHAMBERLAIN — The South Dakota Hall of Fame announced that it has received the copyright to the image of Dignity of Earth & Sky, the iconic sculpture created by Sculptor and 1987 South Dakota Hall of
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PIERRE – Two superintendents from South Dakota’s rural school districts traveled to the state capital this week to advocate for their students and communities. Connie Kaltenbach, Superintendent of Oglala Lakota County School District, and Carol Galbraith, Superintendent of Bennett County School District, met with District 27 Representative Peri Pourier on
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