U.S. Supreme Court COURTESY / SCOTUS WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixteen tribes wrote a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court April 20, stating that withholding CARES Act funds from Alaska Native corporations (ANCs) will not affect healthcare and other services for Alaska Native people. Among the tribes are the
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As a longstanding social enterprise closes its Keya Cafe, Native kitchen trainees fire up a new Turtle Island Food & Coffee Truck to deliver indigenous menu items around town. COURTESY / CRYP EAGLE BUTTE – The Cheyenne River Youth Project, CRYP, is preparing to take its community kitchen on the
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Founding members of the He Sapa Otipi Community Center Board. From left to right:Gene Tyon, Cante Heart, Sandra Woodard, Bev Warne and Kibbe Brown. He Sapa Otipi – Community Center for the People of the Black Hills – is in the early stages of vision planning for an Indigenous hosted
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SANTA FE, NM – The Santa Fe Indian Market will be back in person this year after an online virtual Market last year. The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) which runs the market announced on April 16 that there will be an in-person ticketed market on the weekend of
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Mount Rushmore (Photo Courtesy) By Andrew Malo Should Mount Rushmore be destroyed? We look at America’s past in the Black Hills, the meaning of the Black hills to the Lakota, and the faces that are carved into Mount Rushmore to find out. Though I have visited—and thoroughly enjoyed—the Black Hills
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Tree (Photo Courtesy: NARF) NEW ORLEANS, LA. – A recent federal court ruling here reaffirming the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act’s main provisions gave rise to a training session April 29-30 about implementing the law that advocates consider “the gold standard” for protecting Native youngsters. The National Indian
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Gathering at the bandshell in Memorial Park, participants heard speakers talk about culturally appropriate ways of preventing or healing from loss of loved ones. They walked through the park to display signs calling for justice. (Photo Courtesy of Jean Roach) By Talli Nauman Native Sun News Today Health & Environment
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Kickapoo building a traditional sweat lodge in Mexico. (Photo courtesy Wikipedia) By James Giago Davies Native Sun News Today Correspondent RAPID CITY—Several Algonquin tribes were settled in just south of the Great Lakes when Columbus reached the white sand beaches of San Salvador in 1492. One of these tribes, the
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Donavan Sprauge (Photo Courtesy) By Clara Caufield, Native Sun News Today Correspondent “If we had been here in the late 15th century, we might have seen the Crow and Hidatsa Indians conducting a hunt at a nearby Big Goose buffalo jumps” Professor Donovan Sprague said in starting his lecture. From
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CHAMBERLAIN – St. Joseph’s Indian School recently awarded $84,350 in spring-semester scholarships to Native American students across the nation, bringing the total awards for the academic year to $176,050. This spring, the school provided 68 scholarships: 16 to alumni, 13 to family members of St. Joseph’s Indian School alumni and
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