PINE RIDGE – Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out implored the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as President Biden to live up to their trust responsibilities to investigate and enforce all criminal laws on the Pine Ridge Reservation, as agreed to
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Boston Globe Dec. 21, 1891. “Conspicuous in the collection is the ghost shirt worn in the Sioux Ghost Dance during the Messiah Craze. It is a spacious garment, made of heavy unbleached cotton, into which the yellow ochre has been rubbed until the texture looks like buckskin. On the breast
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Families and community members wait outside of Lara Roetzel’s office. Photo by Sunny Red Bear for NDN Action Network. “The state’s attorney’s office is sending a message to the entire community that you can kill a Native person and pay a small fee and go on with your life. What
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Bonnie Goodbird, from New Town, N.D., came to sell Native culture-wear, including womenswear, ribbon skirts and her latest project –– ribbon pants. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame BISMARCK – More than 40 vendors came to the seventh annual American Indian Arts, Crafts, and Entrepreneur Fair to sell their art, beadwork, ribbon
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THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE AND OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE HAVE JOINED FORCES IN ASKING THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION FOR NATION-TO-NATION CONSULTATIONS TO ESTABLISH A 15-MEMBER BI-PARTISAN TASK FORCE TO REVIEW FRAUDULENT LAND CESSION SNUCK INTO ARTICLE 2 OF THE 1868 FORT LARAMIE TREATY BY THE UNITED STATES’ TREATY NEGOTIATORS AFTER IT
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Leslie Lesert, (Right) the oldest sibling of the Uhre Family, along with Jasmine Stangle from Outback Steakhouse and other volunteers help serve the meal, . Urhe gave everyone sage, flat cedar, tobacco and a cup of coffee to welcome them. (Photo courtesy Ending the Silence) Hundreds of elders gather at
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One of the traditional seven Lakota values is WAČÁŊTOGNAKA, or generosity. According to the Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center, “WAČÁŊTOGNAKA, or generosity, means contributing to the well-being of one’s people and all life by sharing and giving freely. This sharing is not just about objects and possessions but emotions
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WASHINGTON, D.C—This week, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act unanimously passed the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. This is the identical Senate companion, led by U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), to U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson’s (R-S.D.) bill that passed the House unanimously in
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A portion of the Argus Leader front page is shown from Nov. 19, 1973. Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories on children that Jackie Hendry, producer and host of South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s “South Dakota Focus” will write for South Dakota News Watch. Each month,
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Photo Credit CDKC Extension Service LAME DEER, Mont. – On Thursday evening, November 9, a group of young Northern Cheyenne, both male and female, gathered at the Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC) Activities Center in Lame Deer, MT to learn the traditional art or skill of cutting dry meat.
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