PIERRE – October 8, 2021 is the deadline for college or university students to file applications with the Legislative Research Council to serve as legislative interns for the 2022 Legislative Session. Twenty-two intern positions are available and students from all majors are encouraged to apply. Interns are needed to serve
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HONOLULU – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, issued the following statement upon President Biden’s signing of S. 325, which extends the deadline for the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children to submit its report to Congress and the
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EAGAN, Minn. — During Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October, StrongHearts Native Helpline joins advocates, sister organizations and communities throughout Indian Country to raise awareness about domestic violence and to support and honor survivors and victims. This year, StrongHearts calls on everyone — advocates, tribal leaders, reservation and urban Indian
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Coalition of Local Women’s and Indigenous Rights Organizations Host Black Hills Rally for Reproductive Rights on October 2, 2021 “We need each other. We need to bring our cultural ways of getting along, regardless of skin color. Dig down and show your children that fierceness. We fight for our
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Sam Dupris at flight school in 1956. (Courtesy Photo) RAPID CITY—Sam Dupris came back from the Korean War determined to become a pilot. For a young man born and raised on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation this would be a lofty goal today, let alone back in the early
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SIOUX FALLS— The Native American Day Parade has been a celebration and recognition of the Oceti Sakowin and all Indigenous people in South Dakota since 2018. Last year, the parade was canceled as COVID-19 cases rose in South Dakota. This year, despite the availability of a COVID vaccine, another surge
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KYLE –As the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) announced and began to deploy $2,000 American Rescue Plan (ARP) payments to tribal members this summer, the Lakota Federal Credit Union, in partnership with Lakota Funds, launched a public education campaign to encourage wise financial choices. Through a Facebook live interview with the
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Tom Arviso, Jr., is the CEO and Publisher of Navajo Times Publishing Co., Inc. (Courtesy Photo) EVANSTON, Ill. –Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, and the Native American Journalists Association, have selected Tom Arviso Jr. as the 2021 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award recipient. Arviso is the
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Grants to support innovative housing programs in 33 communities WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $142 million to build systems to end youth homelessness in 33 local communities, including $2,794,581 for the Statewide Continuum of Care in South Dakota. HUD’s Youth Homelessness Demonstration
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Pictured left to right: Colton Small, O.T. Thompson, Lynn Gray, Rol Bradford, Gus Craven. Photo courtesy of Roland Bradford. WAMBLEE—When Gus Craven, the Pastor at Eagle Nest Life Center in Wamblee, SD, heard about the fire on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana and how the fire had burned out some
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