Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland delivers remarks at a ship naming ceremony for the future USS Ernest E. Evans (DDG 141) at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, on November 15, 2023. Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jared Mancuso / Office of the Secretary of the Navy
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Meet Stuart James, the soundtrack of a movemStuart James, a hip-hop artist from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, raps about important issues that affect Native communities.The now 30-year-old started off as a shy kid. Though he liked basketball, James admitted he wasn’t the most athletic
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“Traditional O’odham singers at the 2023 Arizona Indian Gaming Expo in Maricopa, Arizona.” Photo by Darren Thompson MARICOPA, AZ—The Arizona Indian Gaming Maricopa, Association hosted its 2023 gaming expo at Harrah’s Ak-Chin, operated by the Ak-Chin Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, with close to 200 gaming professionals and Arizona based tribal leaders.
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PIERRE – 30,000 South Dakota employers will see an estimated $18 million in savings from their reemployment assistance taxes thanks to legislation Governor Noem signed into law last session that cut contribution rates by 0.5%. Employers will begin to receive their 2024 reemployment assistance tax rate notices on Oct. 31.
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PINE RIDGE – Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out implored the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as President Biden to live up to their trust responsibilities to investigate and enforce all criminal laws on the Pine Ridge Reservation, as agreed to
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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 the texture looks like buckskin. On the breast
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Families and community members wait outside of Lara Roetzel’s office. Photo by Sunny Red Bear for NDN Action Network. “The state’s attorney’s office is sending a message to the entire community that you can kill a Native person and pay a small fee and go on with your life. What
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Bonnie Goodbird, from New Town, N.D., came to sell Native culture-wear, including womenswear, ribbon skirts and her latest project –– ribbon pants. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame BISMARCK – More than 40 vendors came to the seventh annual American Indian Arts, Crafts, and Entrepreneur Fair to sell their art, beadwork, ribbon
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THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE AND OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE HAVE JOINED FORCES IN ASKING THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION FOR NATION-TO-NATION CONSULTATIONS TO ESTABLISH A 15-MEMBER BI-PARTISAN TASK FORCE TO REVIEW FRAUDULENT LAND CESSION SNUCK INTO ARTICLE 2 OF THE 1868 FORT LARAMIE TREATY BY THE UNITED STATES’ TREATY NEGOTIATORS AFTER IT
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Leslie Lesert, (Right) the oldest sibling of the Uhre Family, along with Jasmine Stangle from Outback Steakhouse and other volunteers help serve the meal, . Urhe gave everyone sage, flat cedar, tobacco and a cup of coffee to welcome them. (Photo courtesy Ending the Silence) Hundreds of elders gather at
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