Rapid City Common Council members meet to discuss Vision Fund changes. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – At the end of the recent City Council meeting, an angry Ward 2 Alderman Bill Evans suggested altogether eliminating the tax that feeds the Vision Fund. This after changes to the Vision
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DelMarie Bradford (Oglala), Barbara Dull Knife (Oglala), and Violet Catches (Minnecoujou) enjoy gathering to honor White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman. GREEN GRASS – On June 8, 2024, Ms. Vivian High Elk (Cheyenne River Lakota) of the Green Grass, SD community hosted an estimated 300 relatives with a traditional meal and
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Former OST President Julian Bear Runner in front of Federal Courthouse in Rapid City. A federal judge, Linda Reade, has sentenced Julian Bear Runner, the former president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, to 22 months in prison for committing crimes such as wire fraud, larceny, embezzlement, and theft from an
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PINE RIDGE – About a mile or so up Tobacco Road in Pine Ridge, sits a cabin that Cindy Catches shared with her husband, medicine man Peter Catches until his death in 2018. Cindy was raised in a coal mining community in the mountains of West Virginia and had a
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A century later: On June 10, following the “Re-Imagining Citizenship” event in Bismarck, N.D., Cheryl Kary, the executive director at Sacred Pipe Resource Center, displayed a photo of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s 1924 observance of the Indian Citizenship Act passage. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame) A federal official spoke a hundred
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PINE RIDGE – The Oglala Sioux Tribe was awarded $15,300,000.00 from United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to (CFDA#10.182, Local Food Purchase Assistance) for the Oglala Sioux Tribe Food Distribution Program. The USDA Local Food Purchase Assistance initiative was spearheaded by President Frank Star Comes Out who was made aware
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Signs point voters to their precincts at the Instructional Planning Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. South Dakota’s June 4 elections featured 44 Republican legislative primaries and one Democratic primary. (Photo: Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch) South Dakotans by a wide margin support a
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LAME DEER, Mont. – June 25 will mark the 148th anniversary of the allied Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho triumph over the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Since 1993, delegations of Sioux have been journeying on horseback to Cheyenne Country to commemorate this significant historical
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June is Men’s Health Month! This annual observance, established in 1994, is a time to help educate men and their families about the importance of being proactive about their health by using preventive health practices and healthy living decisions. Toni Handboy, MSW, (Cheyenne River Lakota), spoke out about the
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Susie Cain, 86, oldest resident of Heritage Center and Kay Medicine Bull, new Executive Director. (Photo courtesy photo journalist John Warrner) ASHLAND, Mont. – On Friday, June 7, 2024, the Heritage Living Center, a senior home in Ashland, hosted a well-attended grand re-opening The event featured speakers, gourd and round
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