People walk through the parking lot of the Lummi Tribal Health Center on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Washington. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File) (This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com) Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years
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NDN Collective Land Back in Alaska. (Courtesy photo) CORDOVA, AK – Last week, NDN Collective, through the organization’s community development arm, NDN Holdings, finalized a LANDBACK deal with the Eyak Community Land Trust (ECLT) in Alaska, transferring title to a parcel of land on an island commonly known as Sea
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Little Wound High School senior Tingleska Rooks Little Wound High School senior Tingleska Rooks will be featured as part of KOTA Territory News’ Rising Star of the West scholarship contest Thursday February 26th on KOTA Territory News on FOX at 6:00 and 9:00. Rooks qualified for the contest by submitting
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Dignity Statue by Dale Claude Lamphere in Chamberlain, SD. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) CHAMBERLAIN — The South Dakota Hall of Fame announced that it has received the copyright to the image of Dignity of Earth & Sky, the iconic sculpture created by Sculptor and 1987 South Dakota Hall of
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PIERRE – Two superintendents from South Dakota’s rural school districts traveled to the state capital this week to advocate for their students and communities. Connie Kaltenbach, Superintendent of Oglala Lakota County School District, and Carol Galbraith, Superintendent of Bennett County School District, met with District 27 Representative Peri Pourier on
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Little Wound High School senior Nikolas Yellow Boy (Courtesy photo) LITTLE WOUND – Little Wound High School senior Nikolas Yellow Boy will be featured as part of KOTA Territory News’ Rising Star of the West scholarship contest Thursday February 19th on KOTA Territory News on FOX at 6:00 and 9:00.
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Ledger Art Workshop with guest instructor Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III, a Hunkpapa Lakota artist. (Courtesy photo) EAGLE BUTTE – Art, music, poetry and sports filled the Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) Teen Center’s public spaces in January as the Cheyenne River Youth Project kicked off the new year. Not
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Federal funding helped bring a better grocery store to Pine Ridge, S.D., and test delivery to food lockers in Marty, S.D. RF Buche was 7-years-old and getting paid $3 a day to “help” at his family’s grocery store when he saw his dad Bob Buche Jr. take money out of
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U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced bipartisan legislation to improve health outcomes in Tribal communities. The Stronger Engagement for Indian Health Needs Act would elevate the role of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Director to Assistant Secretary
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Chairman Derrick Watchman testifies before the House Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee. (Courtesy photo) WASHINGTON, DC – Derrick Watchman, Chairman of the Board for The National Center for American Indian Economic Development, testified today before a House Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee hearing focused on federal economic development programs in
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