Pete Lien and Sons sign promoting sustainable mining. (Photo by Marnie Cook) BLACK HILLS – The large out-of-state – and often international — mining companies operating in the Black Hills have a history of doing business here using a public front that is an entity that is organized in South
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Northglenn, CO — The Native American Fish & Wildlife Society (NAFWS) will launch From the Field – Elevating Indigenous Voices on April 15, 2026, a peer-reviewed publication authored entirely by Tribal fish and wildlife professionals working on Tribal lands. The publication will be available as an open-access resource at
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Mary Annette Pember (Wisconsin Ojibwe), author of Medicine River I have read few books since becoming a writer/editor for the West River Eagle. I spend considerable time doing research and reading many sources for the feature articles I write. This along with other commitments and responsibilities limits the time I
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Pete Lien and Sons sign promoting sustainable mining. Photo by Marnie Cook. PE’ SLA – NDN Collective, Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, and Earthworks have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to allow exploratory drilling next to Pe’ Sla, a sacred Lakota site in the Black
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Scott Davis delivered a keynote address at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium’s annual conferences in Bismarck, North Dakota on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Photo by Darren Thompson) WASHINGTON – Scott Davis, a Standing Rock Sioux tribal citizen, announced his resignation from the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Friday, April
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Jeff King, Blue Bird staff demonstrates seed planting. (Courtesy Blue Bird) In late March the Blue Bird Lifeways organization located in Northern Cheyenne country presented a workshop in Lame Deer entitled “Reconnecting to Grandmother Earth – providing sustenance.” That non-profit, their logo shown here, under the direction of Lynette Two
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Henry Thompson, Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC) Extension Service Director and quintessential gardener, and his team, student interns Taibree Bearchum and Kyla Kwandibens, together with the CDKC Cultural Center, created an informative coloring book for K–12 schools to use with their science curriculum. This collaborative effort also incorporates the
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Tribal flags hang on a fence in August 2016 near the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline north of Cannon Ball, N.D. (Photo by Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor) Greenpeace has asked for a second trial after a judge entered a $345 million judgment against the organization in
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The Black Hills State University Center for American Indian Studies will host its 41st annual Lakota Omniciye Wacipi in the Donald E. Young Center April 18 at noon to conclude its celebration of American Indian Awareness Week taking place April 13-17. (BHSU Photo by Juli Teasley) SPEARFISH, S.D. – The
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U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden SIOUX FALLS – Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Colman Egan High School and the McCrossan Boy’s Ranch in support of her Returning Education to the States Tour and the Flandreau Indian School in support of
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