PINE RIDGE – The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has authorized legal action in response to a federal Bureau of Land Management decision allowing oil-and-gas fracking on a 1.5-million-acre swatch of unceded Ft. Laramie Treaty territory in Wyoming, the Native Sun News Today learned Jan. 6. The BLM denied all of
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(Photo Credit) Roger Baron By Roger Baron, Professor Emeritus The observations contained herein are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of the University of South Dakota. The order of presentation is chronological. Preliminary Comments: Both the criminal and civil dockets are included. Five of the
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While masks and social distancing are the two prime strategies any person can use to combat the spread of COVID-19, the very practice of them restricts people from doing what people do best— galvanizing others to do something positive and productive. One simple individual way to help health care workers
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Artist Dale Lamphere and BHSU President Laurie S. Nichols with the scale model of The Hive sculpture that honors the connections between the University and Spearfish community. SPEARFISH – A 20-foot sculpture by Dale Claude Lamphere, a Sturgis resident who attended Black Hills State University before going on to an
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RAPID CITY – Officials are reminding City utility customers with overdue accounts that beginning next month, the City will resume discontinuation of residential and commercial utility services for non-payment of utility bills. This practice was suspended in March due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. City utility customers with
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A civil lawsuit filed in the wake of a bond scandal that defrauded the Wakpamni Lake Community Corporation and retirement investment funds of $43 million has been dismissed. The suit alleged that law firms involved failed to perform their due diligence in the issuance of the fraudulent bonds. The Wakpamni
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RAPID CITY – The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed Donna Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and Charmaine White Face’s challenge against IHS about Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board’s (GPTCHB) 638 contract. The original challenge was dismissed from the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota –
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Part II The Vore Buffalo Jump (VBJ) near Sundance, Wyoming is one of the largest preserved big game kill sites in the world, said Dr. Charles Reher, the leading archaeologist who excavated the site, devoting much of his career to get the site protected, researched and donated to UW and
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‘The Courage to Bloom’ design was “influenced by the Apache and Crow cultural landscapes, from the Crazy Mountain Range in the Northern Rockies of Montana to the Salt River Canyon,” Anderson says. DENVER — The American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills, the international lifestyle brand headquartered in Portland,
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EAGLE BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe had 218 active cases of the novel coronavirus on its north-central South Dakota reservation. Tribal government, quickly identifying the virus’s exponential growth and severe threat to public health, activated “Level 5” of its Covid-19 response plan. The nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project
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