Part three: Flash forward – Contamination in the Black Hills After sacking the riches from the tribal loss of hunting, fishing, gathering and ceremonial resources, Homestake left behind a Superfund site. Its contamination to Whitewood Creek qualified an 18-mile stretch of this upper Missouri tributary for federal emergency
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PIERRE — The 2024 South Dakota Legislative Session kicked-off this week and will continue until March. First, a very brief summary Civics lesson about our form of government. It has different branches. The state legislature is a branch, is made up of persons elected by voters. The legislature performs state
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Part one of a two part series Boston Globe Dec. 21, 1891. “Conspicuous in the collection is the ghost shirt worn in the Sioux Ghost Dance during the Messiah Craze. It is a spacious garment, made of heavy unbleached cotton, into which the yellow ochre has been rubbed until
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Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone, a Native American actress with her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. (courtesy photo) By Marnie Cook Native Sun News Today Assistant Editor Sometimes, it’s hard to see change. It can feel like every step is a slog, two steps forward and three steps
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A replica of a Forest Service sign in the parade float bears the words from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion about the theft of Black Hills treaty lands on July 22, 2023. Photo Courtesy/Black Hills Clean Water Alliance RAPID CITY – Conservation biologists consider the Black Hills a “sky island.”
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North Dakota state Rep. Robin Weisz, at left, and state Sen. Jerry Klein, both Republicans, inspect alternative maps proposed by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, during a meeting of a top legislative panel at the state Capitol in
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Cutline Gary Whipple Gary Whipple, Honor’s uncle, shows a visitor the bench that Honor built with his classmates at Sapa Un Jesuit Academy in St. Francis, S.D. It has now become a memorial to the boy’s impact on the school. (Photo: Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch) Editor’s note:
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The U.S. Department of Labor released the country’s latest job report, showing that the economy added 216,000 more jobs in the fourth quarter of 2023. Daniel Hornung, Deputy Director of the White House’s National Economic Council, shares insights to what the new job reports means for the region. WASHINGTON—On Friday,
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The Oglala Sioux Tribe and City of Martin, South Dakota are at odds over a public records request made in fall 2023. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal) MARTIN – The City of Martin, South Dakota and the Oglala Sioux Tribe are at odds over a public records request
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A personalized license plate requested and eventually approved for South Dakota resident Lynn Hart. (Courtesy of Lynn Hart) The state will pay the legal bills for a man who won a First Amendment case in federal court that centered on personalized license plates. Earlier this month, the state of South
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