RAPID CITY—Chief US District Judge Roberto Lange, handed down a sentence of 21 years on 20 year old Jonnie Fineran Thursday morning, from a case that first happened in July 2020. Lange, in speaking of the sentence and where Fineran is presently incarcerated at Fort Worth Texas, said
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Native Sun News Today Owner and Publisher Tim Giago On July 12, 2022, Tim Giago turned 88. Over the past half century, Tim has had a profound influence on Native American journalism. He founded Indian Country Today, and he co-founded the Native American Journalists Association. Tim is a proud Navy
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Jenny Gulch RAPID CITY—On Monday morning the US Forest Service green-lit a project for exploratory gold drilling near Pactola Reservoir, close to Jenny Gulch. The project, designed to drill a series of holes and take core samples, is a precursor event to test for ores, suitable for mining prospects in
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Memorial Pond RAPID CITY—On a day that was busy due to a local concert, a murder occurred in Rapid Citi which left a lot of unanswered questions. Sheldon Glenn, 43, Rapid City, was found drowned in the Rapid City memorial pond, and Walter Mousseau Jr, 27, Pine Ridge, was charged
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Scotti Clifford (right) and his band The Spirits Cry. On bass guitar is Welby and on the drums is Wakpe. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Was te’) RAPID CITY—Nearly 50 established and emerging Great Plains Native visual and preforming artists gathered at Main Street Square on July 9
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Black Elk Peak (Photo courtesy Fine Art America) PINE RIDGE RESERVATION— No issue matters more to the Lakota than the return of the Black Hills. On every spiritual and historical level, the Black Hills represent the core of Lakota identity and meaning in this modern world. But fifty years
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RAPID CITY — In response to recent news that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade today, ending the federal right to abortion, NDN Collective released the following statements: “This system is not made by Indigenous people, or for us. It has lost all moral and ethical authority
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RAPID CITY—A Rapid City woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing $65,000 and multiple passports after knocking over a mailbox with her car in February 2021. Courtney Twiss, of Rapid City, backed into a mailbox cluster at Star Village in February 20, 2021, detaching it from its
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Mark Vargo (Photo courtesy of myblog.com) Tuesday, Governor Kristi Noem elected to replace the impeached Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg with a familiar face. She selected Pennington County’s State’s Attorney Mark Vargo to replace him. Vargo has more than 30 years of experience in the legal fields, in both public and
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The summit of Black Elk Peak (Photo courtesy of travelsouthdakota) HILL CITY—Back in 1874 few white Americans had seen the Black Hills, let alone set foot in them. Custer led a gold prospecting expedition deep into the Hills up the only natural access, a canyon carved over millions of
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