PINE RIDGE—Oglala Sioux Tribal (OST) President Kevin Killer attended a meeting in Washington DC chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. Killer addressed the concerns of OST about the marginalization of the Native American vote, drawing on his experience as a South Dakota State
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RAPID CITY—ICWA (the Indian Child Welfare Act) is one of the most prominent acronyms in Indian Country. A half century back, tribes made their case to the federal government, that Native children were being removed from their homes, community, and culture, at a much higher rate than the rest of
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PIERRE-Last week, South Dakota joined the growing number of states fighting against critical race theory (CRT). Over the last few months, Americans have heard the term ‘critical race theory’ dozens, if not hundreds, of times. But what is it? Simply put, critical race theory approaches American history through the
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RAPID CITY—The monthly Native American Indian Community Meeting held the third Thursday of the month and scheduled for August 19th has been canceled for August. The next Community Meeting will be held on Sept. 16, 2021 at the Mother Butler Hall beginning at 6:00 PM. Secretary of the Interior Debra
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Wind Cave National Park will host a free program about the importance of Wind Cave and bison to the Lakota people August 14 at 8 p.m. (NPS Photo) WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. – Darrell Red Cloud, a graduate and teacher at the Oglala Lakota College, will present a
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, applauded the Senate for passing their bill to improve child support enforcement for Native American tribes by allowing the 60 tribes
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Activists gather at the ‘Red Road to DC’ stop in Minnesota last week (Photo by Wingspan Media and courtesy of Pyramid Communications) Tribal leaders and Native activists warn that pipeline threatens sacred waters, violates treaty PARK RAPIDS, MN—Tribal members from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and Native organizers called
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Cartoon by Thom Little Moon (Courtesy of Indian Country Today Circa 1995) It was in 1989 when the Publisher of the Lakota Times (the original Lakota Times), Tim Giago, got a phone call from a graduate student at the University of Illinois named Charlene Teters. Teters had read
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This undated photo shows a tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, which will be returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it’s been working
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Antelope Community Election Committee Rosebud Primary Election July 22.2021. Left to right: Marissa Long Warrior, Grace Menard, Vernette Long Warrior, Samuel White Horse. (Photo by Ronald L. Neiss, RST Election Board Member) The Rosebud Sioux Tribe held their Primary elections across 22 community polling sites on Thursday July 22. Unofficial
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