BISMARCK, ND – Each day an estimated 10-15 people risk their lives when they walk or bike across town on the main highway route on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. At least six people have died in the past 15 years. An unknown number of others have been injured on the
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LAME DEER, MT – A portion of the Montana Highway 212 Corridor, running from Crow Agency to Alzada, often called the “deadliest” state road has finally got the attention of key officials. A new Highway 212 Safety Task Force, funded by federal and state money has been established and held
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Rose Cordier-Beauvais, 70, visits the gravesite of her grandson, Honor Beauvais, at St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery in Mission, S.D. Honor was 12 when he died during winter storms that pounded the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in December 2022. (Photo: Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch) Part one of a two
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Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources map shows reported spills remediated and still under remediation in a 7.5 mile circumference of Wharf Gold Mine near Lead, South Dakota in the northern Black Hills. Photo credit/ Courtesy of SD DANR’s interactive tool Part one of a four part series. RAPID
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced a $27 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to protect Tribal communities by repairing and upgrading clean water systems and replacing failing dams. The President’s Investing in America agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is deploying record
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Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of Interior. Teachings about a Messiah that will come to save mankind from inevitable self-destruction and destruction of Ina
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Carlee Schreiner, title is healing. The artist said the woman in this painting represent the jingle dress, which is also a healing dress to the Ojibwe. RAPID CITY – The Lakota Nation Invitational Art show is among the various competitions at the annual Lakota Nation Invitational. LNI Art Show coordinator
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Part 1 of 2 Husasa (Red Legs) became one of the first Sioux Chiefs to convert to Christianity. He took the English name of Thomas Whipple after a Bishop Whipple. On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Sioux were hanged by the U.S. military in Mankato, MN for their role in
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Students listened as Landon Schmeichel, an Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher at Legacy High School in Bismarck, N.D, taught a lesson about the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how it led to the genocide of some 6,000 Cherokee during the forced Trail of Tears march. Despite the passing of
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A t-shirt bearing the message “You are not forgotten” is a fitting reminder that the houseless are not forgotten by members of Woyatan Church whose mantra is “Tunkasila through scripture.” (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID CITY – The Woyatan Lutheran Church expanded services this week to the unsheltered community
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