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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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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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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PIERRE / BROOKINGS — The South Dakota Arts and Humanities Councils have come together to support future programming of organizations invested in arts and humanities. The grants through the American Rescue Plan are available now for any organization working to incorporate arts and humanities in their programs. These funds
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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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RAPID CITY―Just weeks after the school year began, positive Covid-19 cases among children and teachers are on the rise. As of September 13, the Rapid City Area Schools (RCAS) website showed 247 current active cases in RCAS district, which includes 23 staff and 224 students. The RCAS website also showed
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RAPID CITY—It was announced this week that the Native American Day parade will be canceled. Bruce Long Fox, Executive Director for Rural America Initiatives and Parade Committee Chairman, made this statement: “Parade committee – Thanks for giving of your time and effort to organize the Native American Day parade. Hopefully
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RAPID CITY—On September 3, the He Sapa Wacipi Board of Directors made an announcement: “Greeting Friends and Relatives, It is with heavy hearts and our deepest regret, that The He Sapa Wacipi Board of Directors with a lot of prayerful planning, concern, and awareness for our community’s health and with
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MONTANA—Given the attacks by the Trump Administration on wildlife and the environment, environmentalists were understandably enthusiastic about the incoming Biden Administration, assuming that many of Trump’s threatening policy changes would be rolled back. Two recent decisions by the Biden Administration on gray wolf protection and fracking restrictions has seriously dampened
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WHITESTONE HILL, ND—Members of Cheyenne River, Hunkpapa, Ihanktuwanna, Ihanktuwan, Bdewakantuwan, Sissituwan and Wakpekute, as well as a few non-natives with big hearts, recently finished a memorial horseback ride that started August 28 from Fort Thompson SD and ended at Whitestone Hill on September 3 in North Dakota. Whitestone Hill is
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