CASPER, WY —The Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo is returning to Casper July 9 – 17, 2021 and while you can attend the event in person, the PRCA rodeo will also be broadcast live on the Cowboy Channel (and the Cowboy Channel app) from July 13 – 17. “This
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Chairman Frazier statement regarding South Dakota Army National Guard deployment to Texas. EAGLE BUTTE – Harold Frazier, Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, sent a letter to the Governor of South Dakota requesting assistance on assessment and establishment of medical facilities in anticipation of the COVID-19 pandemic spread. Today,
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By Darren Thompson Native Sun News Today Correspondent Tara Houska: “President Biden, stand up for Anishinaabe treaties, stand up for our wild rice, stand up against fossil fuel expansion.” Photo Courtesy by Keri Pickett BEMIDJI, Minn. — As construction continues on Enbridge Energy Inc.’s Line 3 replacement project, so
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The Board of Directors of Wambli Ska Okolakiciye and Woyatan are excited to announce the much-anticipated Grand Opening of the Daron White Eagle Center. The Daron White Eagle Center honors the legacy of Daron White Eagle the founder of Wambli Ska Okolakiciye and father of Chris White Eagle, President of
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DENVER — The discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 215 Indigenous children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada has, once again, ignited the trauma of Indigenous people across North America. In the United States, Indigenous children were also taken from their families and homes and
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ROCKFORD, TN – Remote Area Medical- RAM® – a major nonprofit provider of pop-up clinics delivering free, quality, dental, vision and medical care to underserved and uninsured individuals—will be coming St. Francis, SD, on August 13-15, 2021 to provide free care. To fulfill its goal of treating as many people
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On the same day Canadian pipeline developer TC Energy announced that it’s officially terminating its Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline project, one Native American activist has avoided jail time for her protest against it. Jasilyn Charger, represented by attorney Terry L. Pechota, pled no contest today to a charge of criminal
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Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia finalized settlement of litigation between the Department of the Interior and plaintiffs in Peltier v. Haaland. The litigation was filed in 1992 by individual and Tribal beneficiaries of the Pembina Judgment Fund, alleging mismanagement and
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A top cleric in Germany’s Catholic Church has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past
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In a Native-led gathering of some 2,000 pipeline fighters, participants — hoping to attract President Biden’s attention — marched to establish a camp on a spot where the Canadian Enbridge Energy Inc. wants to lay Line 3 pipes to pump hazardous materials in the form of diluted bitumen (dilbit) across
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