StrongHearts Native helpline statement for 2021 Domestic Violence Awareness Month

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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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 1, 2021

Sioux Falls Native American Day Parade canceled

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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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 23, 2021

HUD awards $2.7 million to end youth homelessness in SD

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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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 23, 2021

Tribal members call on Biden to stop Line 3

Activists gather at the ‘Red Road to DC’ stop in Minnesota last week (Photo by Wingspan Media and courtesy of Pyramid Communications) Tribal leaders and Native activists warn that pipeline threatens sacred waters, violates treaty PARK RAPIDS, MN—Tribal members from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and Native organizers called

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 29, 2021

Lakota woman wins Louisiana pipeline lawsuit

  Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Local District Attorney Rejects All Criminal Charges for Alleged Violations of ALEC-inspired Anti-Protest Amendments to Critical Infrastructure Law St. Martinville, Louisiana – Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First Amendment after

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 22, 2021

2021 was a tree planting success

2021 was a tree planting success 35,000 tree starts were planted and donated This May, Red Cloud Renewable received about 35,000 baby trees grown by the Colorado State Forest Service and paid for by Trees, Water, and People and Nomadic Tipi Makers.  There were thousands of Ponderosa Pine seedlings, as well

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 15, 2021

Lakota Food Summit happening in August

  Lakota Food Summit happening in August   RAPID CITY—The Lakota Food Sovereignty Coalition will be hosting their Second Annual Lakota Food Summit coming up on August 24, 25 & 26th, 2021. This will be taking place at the Holiday Inn-Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. The summit’s opening

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 15, 2021

Supreme Court overrules tribes

The Hall of Tribal Nations at BIA headquarters honors the federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes of the United States with a display of each one’s flag. The new American Rescue Plan Act relief for indigenous community services is earmarked for these 574 tribal governments, not corporations. (COURTESY

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 1, 2021