Marty Two Bulls Jr. is the 2024 Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) Artist in Residence (AiR). Two Bulls is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and an artist and educator based in Rapid City, SD. (Courtesy Photo) LEAD – Marty Two Bulls Jr. is the 2024 Sanford Underground
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Honoring our exceptional artists and culture bearers! “We are excited about the wide variety of cultural and artistic practices of the 2024 fellowship cohort…Their creative endeavors bring together traditional knowledge, community perspectives, and each has their own spirit of growth and determination.” -Dr. Lara Evans, Ph.D., Vice President of Programs
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The Journey Museum and Learning Center, in partnership with the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit, Painted Tipis of the Blackfeet Nation. The exhibit will open to the public on February 16 and will be on view through May 5, 2024.
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It was Standard Operating Procedure at the Republican dominated South Dakota Legislature as lawmakers talked about forest health as they deferred Senate Bill 134 which would redirect already designated American Rescue Plan Act money to create the healthy forest critical infrastructure relief and grant program, and to declare an emergency.
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Biden-Harris administration announces $10 million from President’s Investing in America Agenda for Tribal Irrigation and Power Projects WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced a $10 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to upgrade and modernize Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)-owned irrigation projects and power
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U.S. Assistant Secretary of Interior Bryan Newland (left) and U.S. Secretary of Interior Debra Haaland (right) at a “Road to Healing” listening session at the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, California on August 4, 2023. (Photo by Darren Thompson) WASHINGTON—On Monday, February 5, U.S. Representatives Sharice Davids (D-KS) and
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The first hempcrete house in the state of Minnesota and the first multi family hempcrete building in the country. It was built using the spray method with the Ereasy Spray System. MORTON, Minn. – Lakota relatives in Minnesota lead the way for a new economic frontier for tribal communities that
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Lewis H. Latimer and African American Inventor was credited with several inventions including the air conditioner and carbon filaments for light bulbs. In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford announced Black History Month granting federal recognition for the sacrifice, bravery and entrepreneurship achievements of African Americans throughout the centuries. A building
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The South Dakota Office of Hearing Examiners has affirmed that to receive public records, the Oglala Sioux Tribe need not pay the City of Martin’s “outside legal fees incurred in producing the records.” The Tribe filed an appeal to the examiners’ office in December after the city demanded the Tribe
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Husasa Red Legs Santee Sioux Chief and Minister As told by Jim James, Santee Sioux Tribe As explained in Parts one and two of this account, the Santee Sioux after an unsuccessful uprising against the U.S. Military and settlers in Minnesota, 1862 were forcibly relocated to Crow Creek, South Dakota
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