Photo: L-R (Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools School Board): Donna Blocker – Superintendent Secretary, Shannon Ravenscroft – Treasurer, Tim Nollette – Board Member, Betty Williams – Board Member, Kurt Busenitz – Vice President, Bethany Swedener – Secretary, Adam Nasland – President, Adam Lambert – Superintendent. Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools School Board listened to
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Amyrah and Madeline had their hair allegedly cut during school hours as school officials searched for head lice at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools. PIERRE – A woman claims her daughter’s hair was cut at the elementary school she attends to check for lice. This was done without permission, and against school
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A member of the Two Kettle Band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, LeBeau served as a nurse caring for those wounded at Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion. She later served on the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge. LeBeau celebrated her 100th birthday in October, 2019.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. – Later this month there will be a meeting of peoples from the Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe in Bemidji, Minnesota. The event is a Reunification for Healing, and it will feature a presentation and prayer from both Dave Courchene, Objiwe, and Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota and keeper
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Anger is an instinctual emotional response from a real or imagined threat. Anger is painful and we need to get relief. We almost always feel something else first before we get angry: afraid, hopeless, hurt, disrespected, disappointed, or guilty. We use anger to protect/cover up these other vulnerable feelings. We
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Why is it that we fall in love with our dream-mate and then spend the next forty years yelling, fighting and screaming as if we had married our worst enemy? It makes no sense. It makes even less sense to get a divorce and marry someone just like the first
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WASHINGTON – The National Council of Urban Indian Health has requested that Congress honor the United States trust responsibility to urban Indians by passing emergency funding that includes Urban Indian Organizations for the prevention and treatment of the Coronavirus -Covid 19 risk. NCUIH requested: • At the very least $94
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“This partnership is historic and represents the first time that both our reservation and urban based Native community tribes and organizations will be resourced to do this critically important work.” — JANEEN COMENOTE (QUINAULT), NUIFC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WASHINGTON – The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), National Urban Indian
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In contrast to a Meade County permit meeting in South Dakota, one at Holt County in Nebraska was packed. (Photo courtesy Shannon Graves) STURGIS –The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Ft. Belknap Indian Community held off the Keystone XL Pipeline in federal court on Feb. 25, as agents for the
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Tribal leaders walk along fence that is being replaced with a wall across their homelands. (Photo courtesy Tohono O’odham Nation) SELLS, Ariz. – Tohono O’odham Nation Chair Ned Norris Jr. testified before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States on Feb. 26 about destruction
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