Nikolas Yellow Boy LITTLE WOUND – Little Wound High School sophomore Nikolas Yellow Boy will be featured as part of KEVN Black Hills FOX’s Rising Star of the West scholarship contest Wednesday March 20th on The SIX and on Black Hills FOX News at 9:00. Yellow Boy qualified for the
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LAS VEGAS – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is making investments to provide clean drinking water, sanitary wastewater systems and affordable high-speed internet to people in Tribal communities. A portion of today’s funding will improve water infrastructure for the Yomba Shoshone Tribe in
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Leonard Peltier as a young boy. Part 3 of a 5 part series on Leonard Peltier How did a former federal judge from Tennessee become such a staunch advocate for freeing Leonard Peltier? Kevin Sharp is working pro bono to try to get Peltier released from a Florida prison. Sharp
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T-shirts for sale at a South Dakota Canvassing event at the Military Heritage Alliance in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Oct. 19, 2023. The group was formed after My Pillow founder Mike Lindell held his cyber symposium in Sioux Falls in August 2021. (Photo: Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch)
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Newly made jewelry featuring agates from creative Jhon Goes In Center/Photo: Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – It is staggering to think of how time is preserved in an agate. “These are estimated to be 500 million years old,” said Oglala Lakota creative Jhon Goes In Center talking about the agates
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LAME DEER, MT – There are an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 wild or ‘feral’ horses running around the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, said Gene Small, Chairperson of the Northern Cheyenne Grazing Board. Some people believe that the wild/feral horses on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation are descendants of the original Spanish Barbs.
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Leonard Peltier A five-week jury trial was held in U.S. District Court in Fargo, N.D., and Leonard Peltier was convicted on April 18, 1977 of two counts of first-degree murder. He was sentenced on June 1, 1977 to serve two consecutive life terms in prison. Peltier appealed his conviction to
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Austin Sunka Luta EAGLE BUTTE – The Leadership and Financial Aid Team at Oglala Lakota College (OLC) chose Austin Sunka Luta of Eagle Butte to receive the Student of the Year Award for the 2023-2024 academic year. OLC now includes 11 college centers providing classes to students on the Pine
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A buffalo hide painting depicting life at an Indian boarding school. The Remembering the Children Memorial honors the children who attended and died at the Rapid City Indian School, a federally-run boarding school that operated on the campus of what is now the Oyate Health Center (formerly Sioux San) in
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By Mary Steurer North Dakota Monitor BISMARCK, ND – Gov. Doug Burgum opposed removing Dakota Access Pipeline protesters by force, he testified Monday. An email shown in a federal court trial indicated Burgum favored using humanitarian outreach to the camps as a means to end the protests that drew thousands
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