PINE RIDGE – Members of the Oglala Lakota Nation overwhelmingly voted to defeat a proposed move to scrap Indian Health Service oversight of their Indian Health Service Unit Hospital. On July 12, a total of 887 votes were cast and the majority sent a loud and clear message they do
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Rapid City Indian School circa 1920’s (Courtesy State Historical Society) RAPID CITY—Construction is set to begin in October on the first national public memorial built on the site of a former Indian boarding school in Rapid City. The Rapid City Indian Boarding School was located on land near West Middle
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Crystal meth (Photo courtesy) RAPID CITY—US District Judge Karen Schreier handed down a sentence for Lew Bettelyoun, 46, Pine Ridge, on July 8 for 15 years in prison, and five years supervised release, after Bettelyoun was convicted of Methamphetamine trafficking. Bettelyoun pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance
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RAPID CITY—A Former bus driver at Red Cloud Indian School will spend a total of 18 year in federal prison for a sexual relationship with a 14 year old student. US District Judge Jeffrey Viken, sentenced Stacey Garnette, 44, of Allen on July 6 to 18 years in prison and
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Benjamin Wendall Smoke (Courtesy photo) RAPID CITY—In March of 2019, Dale EcofFey. Sr., 55, Pine Ridge, died of injuries received from a beating by Benjamin Wendell Smoke, 63, Manderson. Smoke was convicted of assault resulting in serious bodily injury and sentenced to eight years. He was also sentenced to five
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Photo courtesy dailymail.com PINE RIDGE—Traditionally when a question of cannabis comes up, it revolves around the medicinal variety, obtained with a card and then from the Flandreau tribe in East River, at the Native Nations Cannabis location, owned and operated by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. However, for recreational folks,
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LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—On Friday, July 15, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Jim Thorpe will be named as the sole gold medalist in two 1912 Olympic events, the pentathlon and the decathlon. Thorpe was stripped of his gold medals in 1913 after it was discovered he had played a couple
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Lori Ann Two Bulls signature designs grace her new creations, Okanke. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Was Te’) RAPID CITY – Racing Magpie’s Block Party was rocked over the weekend by the raw heavy metal jams of the Carrion Crawlers. Troy, Lesain and William, homegrown musicians from Kyle, were among a
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PIERRE – South Dakota has received the highest rating possible under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, for both Parts B and C for the most recent reporting year of federal fiscal year 2020. The state is one of only 15 across the country to meet the requirements
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The Pawnee Nation celebrated being a National Telecommunications and Information Administration Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantee at a press conference on June 23. (Photo: Pawnee Nation) OKLAHOMA—The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently announced Pawnee Nation as one of its grant recipients as part of the Tribal
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