Michele Naar-Obed outside Aitkin County Jail March 19: She was held in custody three nights for what turned out to be a junk warrant. COURTESY / Resist Line 3 AITKIN COUNTY, Minn. — Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels
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Water protectors celebrated outside the courthouse March 24 when Haakon County dropped one of two criminal allegations against Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member.COURTESY / 2KC Media PHILIP – Water protectors celebrated outside the courthouse here March 24 when Haakon County dropped a felony charge against Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member
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Marilyn Vann (Photo Courtesy) RAPID CITY—California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, may face unexpected legal challenges to her proposed
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RAPID CITY– Last summer, 21 Indigenous people and allies, including Nick Tilsen, the president and CEO of NDN Collective, were met with force from the state police and arrested for protesting Trump’s rally at Mt. Rushmore. Though Trump and his group were violating multiple treaties with their presence, including one
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WASHINGTON – In the last week, two groups of Native Americans brought two different cases to a federal appeals court, seeking to protect their religious freedom and stop the government from destroying sacred sites where they have worshipped since time immemorial. The rare convergence of these two cases presents a
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Lily Mendoza: Donations for “No More Stolen Sisters” t-shirts, silk screened at the Bird Cage Book Store and Mercantile, will go to keep the doors of the office open. Photo by Julie Garreau RAPID CITY – The Red Ribbon Skirt Society of the Black Hills is set to open a
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RAPID CITY—In a June 25, 2020 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gary Batton, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, implored the Speaker to “exercise your leadership to oppose recent efforts by the Chairwoman of the Committee on Financial Services, the Honorable Maxine Waters, to insert – in house
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Darla Drew (Photo Courtesy) RAPID CITY – During the Rapid City Council’s working session on March 10, Darla Drew provided an update on Camp Mni Luzahan which included the Camp’s organizers transitioning to an alcohol-free area. Drew, being part of the City and County’s detox board, said that the organizers
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Carley Plenty Arrows: “I Don’t know if it’s because I’m Native American, but they showed me that they simply didn’t care about my well-being.” RAPID CITY — A member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe nearly died while in custody at the Pennington County Jail due to medical neglect by healthcare
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South Dakota’s senators voted against Interior Department Secretary Debra Haaland, despite tribal leader’s requests. WASHINGTON, D.C – On March 15, the U.S. Senate confirmed Laguna Pueblo Rep. Debra Haaland, D-N.M., as the first Native woman to hold a Cabinet post, making her the Secretary of the Interior by a narrow
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