ATLANTA, GA. – Grassroots organizations vowed to take the federal government to court over U.S. President Donald Trump’s July 15 announcement here of rules changes shattering the bedrock environmental law that tribes and constituents have used to fend off fracking, oil pipelines and mining in treaty territory. Hailing the finalization
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The river otter is “a sacred species for us as Lakota people.”COURTESY / National Wildlife Federation PIERRE – The South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Commission is giving the public until June 19 to comment on a draft management plan that would open the first-ever trapping season for the rare
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EAGLE BUTTE — Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold C. Frazier has declared that a state of emergency still exists on the Cheyenne River reservation. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has closed several BIA routes and declared all BIA roads with culverts to be in critical condition. Recent winter, spring
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