RAPID CITY – One year into the pandemic, South Dakota has lost 1,933 people to Covid-19, with 45 deaths this month. There have been a total of 117,081 people who tested positive statewide including 1,358 new positive tests last week, an increase of 128 from the week prior. Oglala Lakota
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CHAMBERLAIN – St. Joseph’s Indian School students and staff welcomed visiting artist and hoop dancer Starr Chief Eagle to campus as part of the South Dakota Arts Council Artist in Residency Program. Chief Eagle is a talented Lakota Artist and “Hoop Dancer Extraordinaire” who travels the world telling her story
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Water protectors celebrated outside the courthouse March 24 when Haakon County dropped one of two criminal allegations against Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member.COURTESY / 2KC Media PHILIP – Water protectors celebrated outside the courthouse here March 24 when Haakon County dropped a felony charge against Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member
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RAPID CITY– Last summer, 21 Indigenous people and allies, including Nick Tilsen, the president and CEO of NDN Collective, were met with force from the state police and arrested for protesting Trump’s rally at Mt. Rushmore. Though Trump and his group were violating multiple treaties with their presence, including one
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Jim James PART II As introduced in Part I of this series, Henry “Jim” James, Santee Sioux of Nebraska through dint of tenacity became one of the largest Indian contractors in America, his career spanning decades (the late 1970’s through the 90’s). This continues his story. While serving the Santee
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Oak Flat: For more than six years, tribal members and allies have been holding camps, rallies, relay runs and other demonstrations to resist the mining on sacred treaty land. (Photo by Talli Nauman) OAK FLAT, Arizona — To make good on Joe Biden’s recent Presidential Memorandum for tribal consultation and
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A community member presents a stack of unpaid bills to Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer in the Washington Room of Ramkota on March 2 RAPID CITY – An important meeting on healthcare in the Rapid City community began quietly and then people started to pull out stacks of health
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U.S. Attorney General Ron Parsons United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that 37 people have been federally indicted as part of OCDETF Operation Say Uncle. OCDETF stands for Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, which is a “keystone of the Attorney General’s strategy to reduce the availability of illicit narcotics
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RAPID CITY – The Oglala Sioux Tribe Health and Human Services Committee will be meeting in Rapid City at the Ramkota in the Washington Room on Tuesday, March 2. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. to discuss the OST Master Health Programs – CHR, Native Healing and Native Women’s
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Former Navajo Nation President, Albert Hale. WASHINGTON – The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) offered the following statement from NIHB Chairman William Smith on the loss of former Navajo Nation President Albert Hale. “On behalf of the National Indian Health Board, my heart and prayers go out to Albert Hale,
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