Badlands Heritage Ranch located south of Interior. (Photo courtesy Heidi Cuny) INTERIOR – Badlands Heritage Guest Ranch is pleased to announce the summer’s first community campfire series happening the last three Fridays of June. This series of events features cowboy poetry performances from renowned artists Sherl Cederburg and Pegie Douglas.
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Friday, May 17, 2024, is the third annual Native Nonprofit Day (NND), according to the Native Ways Foundation (NWF), founded in 2008 by a group of national Native-led nonprofits to activate and expand informed giving in Indian Country. The founding organizations include the American Indian College Fund, the American Indian
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Oglala Sioux Tribal leaders testified on Capitol Hill, asking the House Committee on Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for additional law enforcement funding in Indian Country. From left to right: Acting Chief of Police John Pettigrew, Oglala Sioux President Frank Star Comes Out and his assistant Donna
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Gov. Kristi Noem, flanked by advisers and law enforcement officials, speaks on May 17, 2024, at the Capitol in Pierre. Visible from left to right around Noem are Tribal Relations Secretary David Flute, Dewey County Sheriff Ashley Arpan and Tribal Law Enforcement Liaison Algin Young. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) PIERRE
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The 3rd Annual Sunka Wakan Un Wicozanikte – Healing with Horses Camp which took place at Thunder Horse Stables in Rapid Valley. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID CITY – Understanding, recognizing and validating Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief among Native Americans is essential to living well. Delaney Apple
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Lily Mendoza, founder of Red Ribbon Skirt Society moderated a roundtable discussion titled “All Our Relatives” with guest speakers including artist Jennifer White, owner of Post Pilgrim Gallery, Leya Hale, director of documentary “Bring Her Home,” and artist Rachel Berg, owner of Liv Artfully in Sioux Falls. (Photo by Chantelle
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NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen presenting RAI Executive Director Bruce Long Fox with generous donation. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY — NDN Collective, on a cooler than normal May afternoon, made a generous donation of $100,000 to Rural American Initiatives (RAI). RAI, which serves low-income Native families,
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Star Village sign RAPID CITY, SD—Rapid City is one of 16 communities nationwide selected for a ‘Love Your Block’ grant by Johns Hopkins University. The University announced the national selections earlier today. The grant for $100,000 is awarded to the City of Rapid City and will be used to support
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On Earth Day 2024 (April 22), President Biden announced the official start of his groundbreaking workforce training and service initiative that will put tens of thousands of young Americans to work fighting the impacts of climate change today while training tomorrow’s clean energy and climate-resilience workforce. Called the American Climate
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INDIANAPOLIS – A national commission is calling on the federal government to declare a “Decade of Action and Healing” regarding the public safety crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples. The commission issued a report listing its many findings, including problems of reporting and collecting data. The U.S. Interior and
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