LAME DEER, MONT. – Two massive fires located on and near the Northern Cheyenne Reservations are rampaging across southeastern Montana. As of Friday, September 4, 2010 the Rice and Snider Fires north of Ashland, Montana (perimeter of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation) had burned nearly 44,000 acres with zero percent containment.
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RAPID CITY – South Dakota has recently reported 15,400 total positive cases of COVID-19 statewide with around 2,500 of them being currently active. Pennington County makes up 1,600 of those cases and is only second to Minnehaha County that has over 5,600 cases. Oglala Lakota County nears 200 positive cases.
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Dakota Middle Tents grandfather – smudges in Norway during the 1990’s. RAPID CITY – Dakota Middle Tent’s family was relieved when they saw him in the emergency room at Monument Health with only a few broken bones. On Aug. 16 he had fallen over 100 feet from the top of
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“People have a right to know that an illegal operation in underway on indigenous land yet again,” said participant Joseph White Eyes. COURTESY / CRGC BRIDGER – Members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media, and other concerned citizens organized a “Pow Wow at the Pipeyard” near the gates
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Charles Abourezk RAPID CITY – Rapid City attorney Charles Abourezk has joined the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (GPTCHB) as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and General Counsel according to a news release on the Health Board’s website. GPTCHB’s news release says that they have “made a powerful
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Chairman Harold Frazier leads Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe riders who arrived at Ft. Laramie in Wyoming in April 2018 for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty. Photo by Richie Richards LARAMIE, Wyo. – The 2020 Oceti Sakowin Gathering of treaty nations and councils here
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LAME DEER, Mont. – Over the past few weeks the COVID has devastated the Northern Cheyenne Reservation and continues its deadly assault upon the Crow Reservation. Big Horn and Rosebud Counties, along with Yellowstone (home to Billings, the primary shopping center for both reservations] now top the State’s list of
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Rock The Native Vote 2020 set up census support stands, including this one at Norman First American United Methodist Church in Oklahoma. PHOTO COURTESY / RTNV NORMAN, Oklahoma — After an August federal directive to shorten the 2020 Census outreach period jarred the nation, Indian organizations redoubled efforts to make
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Native Women motorcyclists led the Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride 2020 during the annual bike rally, the purpose being to raise awareness about the crisis resulting from failure to protect sisters vulnerable to human trafficking and meet out justice to lawbreakers. Photo by Talli Nauman PART II
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Washington, D.C. – With the U.S. Postal Service under assault from the Trump Administration, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (N.M.-01) introduced a bill that will empower Americans to support vote by mail. The Vote by Mail Stamp Act creates a new stamp to join the ranks of other semipostal stamps, including the Breast
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