TaSina Sapa Win holds her son as she stands against oil pipeline construction in Native treaty territory with other members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective during their intervention at a coalition occupation of the Democratic National Committee headquarters intended to make sure President-elect Joe Biden keeps campaign promises for
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During EPA hearings in Hot Springs on Oct. 5, 2019, Misty Plenty Wolf was one of the 100 people who spoke against allowing Azarga Uranium Corp. to sink water wells in the Black Hills.COURTESY PHOTO PINE RIDGE – The EPA broke two federal laws on Nov. 24 by permitting underground
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Despite pandemic health issues over the summer, MIGIZI students were able to attend classes, like this HVAC course offered by the Minneapolis Community & Technical College, but another recent upsurge of coronavirus has pushed all programming online.COURTESY/MIGIZI MINNEAPOLIS – Only eight months after the grand opening of their recently renovated
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Yamni Jack battling COVID at Pine Ridge IHS When COVID-19 first entered the national consciousness, Yamni Jack was transitioning from his long time role at Lower Brule High School to his new job as Activities Director at Lakota Tech. He had no idea the profound impact the virus would have
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Governor Kristi Noem SIOUX FALLS — South Dakota’s Governor is sure making a name for herself and for South Dakota in a bad way – for her malfeasant response in doing nothing as South Dakota now leads the world in the death rate from COVID-19. According to USA Today,
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EAGLE BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe had 218 active cases of the novel coronavirus on its north-central South Dakota reservation. Tribal government, quickly identifying the virus’s exponential growth and severe threat to public health, activated “Level 5” of its Covid-19 response plan. The nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project
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BROOKINGS – The statewide South Dakota Humanities Council has awarded more than $400,000 to cultural organizations struggling to maintain operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The CARES grants, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by SDHC, provided unrestricted operating support, humanities program support, or both to qualifying
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PRIOR LAKE, Minn. – The Scott County Historical Society and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) announced today that the society has donated a rifle to the tribe that was once owned by Mdewakanton Dakota leader Sakpe II. Originally on loan from the organization, this historic artifact is now part
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New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland to be appointed Secretary of the Department of Interior. Over 35 grassroots Native American organizations affiliated with the Indigenous Environmental Network sent a letter to President-elect Joe Biden advocating for New Mexico Representative Deb Haaland to be appointed Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
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Pandemic health care providers and suppliers donated time and equipment for nasal swab service in homeless grassroots mutual aid operation conducted Nov. 13. Photo Credit/Cheryl Angel RAPID CITY — Isolated in a lonely hotel room due to pandemic protocol for a diagnosis of Covid-19, Sicangu Lakota grandmother Cheryl Angel vowed
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