Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority Office LAME DEER., Mont. – The Northern Cheyenne Tribe and the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority are collaborating to conduct a comprehensive assessment of housing and related health needs on the Reservation. The project is funded by HUD. The project aims to gather crucial
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Austin Sunka Luta (Cheyenne River Lakota) has 14 years of being clean and sober by traveling the Red Road to Recovery. (photo courtesy of Austin Sunka Luta) EAGLE BUTTE SD – September is National Recovery Month, according to the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Since 1989, the
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Kehala Two Bulls with her husband Marty Two Bulls Jr and their two daughters. (Photo courtesy Kehala Two Bulls) RAPID CITY – Kehala Two Bulls accepted the nomination to replace South Dakota District 34 Senate candidate Michael Calabrese who recently resigned from his candidacy due to family reasons, according to
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Panel participants at the Voices of the Elders meeting. (Photo by Mia Feroleto ) PINE RIDGE, S.D. – Thursday morning, August 22nd, 2024, fifty plus people gathered in the conference room at the Prairie Wind Casino for an all-day meeting organized by Wakan Tahoki Omniciye or Voices of the Elders
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On Thursday August 22, 2024 the signing of an MOU for co-stewardship of the Black Hills National Forest between the Great Sioux Nation Tribes and the U.S. Forest Service took place at the Mystic Ranger Station on 8221 Mt. Rushmore Rd. in Rapid City. Left to right: Crow Creek Sioux
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Map shows land cover types on Penobscot reservation and off-reservation trust lands. Note: The portion of the Penobscot River outlined in bold black lines is part of the Penobscot reservation Part two of three For decades, deleterious effects of contamination and diverting the flow of natural estuaries and riparian ecosystems
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19th. Century Calvary soldiers pose with Hotchkiss guns like those used at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 to murder hundreds of mostly unarmed Lakota men, women, and children. (photo courtesy of Jeffrey Hotchkiss) PORTLAND ME – Jeffrey Hotchkiss of Portland, Maine, learned in 2009 that his relative invented the
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Registration line can be seen on both the left and the right beyond the food truck vendors and their patrons in the foreground. (Photo by Marnie Cook) MINILUZAHAN – The lonely parking lot behind the Journey Museum came alive on Friday as NDN Collective hosted their Fifth Annual Backpack Giveaway
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Faith Holmes and inmates at the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Corrections celebration the completion of the NCS workshop using meditation as a tool for change. (Photo courtesy Faith Holmes) PINE RIDGE – In November of 2022 an audience of 99 healers, educators and leaders gathered in Rapid City, South
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation to extend the reporting deadline for Indian Health Service (IHS) patients who seek emergency care outside of IHS facilities. The IHS Emergency Claims Parity Act would extend the emergency notification requirements of IHS’s Purchased and Referred Care
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