Date: Sept. 27, 2025 Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm Location: Oglala Lakota Artspace 7904 Lakota Prairie Dr Kyle, SD 57752 Join us on Saturday, September 27, 2025 (10AM–5PM) at the Oglala Lakota Artspace for a day filled with art, music, food, and community. The celebration features a music mixer with
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Campers also hiked to the 4,426- and 7,242-foot summits of sacred Mathó Pahá (Bear Mountain, or Bear Butte) and Heháka Sápa (Black Elk Peak), and engaged in individual hanbléciya (meditation). (Photo courtesy CRYP) BEAR BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Youth Project continued its series of seasonal Lakota culture camps in
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PICKSTOWN – The “Star Knowledge Conference 11:11” will be held on October 10-12 from 9:00 AM-8 PM at the Rainbow Room in Pickstown, South Dakota, 310 White Swan Street. The gathering is dedicated to the seventh generation and will feature wisdom keepers, code carriers, indigenous elders, energy workers, visionaries,
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Cheyenne children sit together for a portrait at Carlisle Indian Boarding Schools in the 1890s. (Photo courtesy John N. Choate Cumberland County Historical Society) Beginning September 1, 2025, staff working with the Office of Army Cemeteries began the somber work of trying to repatriate 19 Native Americans to their home
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Barbara Takei speaks during a ceremony celebrating the completion of the Snow Country Prison Japanese Internment Memorial at United Tribes Technical College. To her left is Satsuki Ina, who led the project to create the memorial, and to her right is United Tribes Technical College President Russ McDonald. (Photo by
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Yamni Jack at KILI Radio Station one half of the popular Bert and Ernie Show. Back in 1999, when Yamni Jack played basketball for the Pine Ridge Thorpes, most people knew he had the talent to play college ball, but they could not predict all the things he would do
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(AI-assisted rendition on what Maj. Basil Heth Jr. may have looked like in the time he returned to the Yankton Sioux Reservation, S.D.) YANKTON SIOUX RESERVATION – The journey to the quiet, windswept cemetery in South Dakota began with a simple request: a buddy check on an Iraqi Freedom-era Marine.
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• Friday, October 3, 2025 7:00 PM and Sunday, October 5, 20259:00 PM • Journey Museum & Learning Center, 222 New York Street, Rapid City, SD, 57701 The influential film festival in the Black Hills returns in October with new films, filmmaker insights, special guests, panels, networking, merchandise, and
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The so-called Glory Hole on the East Fork of the South Fork Salmon River in the historical Stibnite Mining District of central Idaho. A USGS water-quality study found that the Glory Hole acts as a sediment trap, particularly at high streamflow. (Photo courtesy USGS) LAPWAI, IDAHO – On Sept. 1,
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Two men hang a sign for Garrett Hawk at the Fort Thompson Community Center following the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples walk on August 15, 2025. (Credit: Amelia Schafer/ICT). FORT THOMPSON, S.D. – It’s been two years since Garrett Hawk was murdered in front of his home on
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