The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant sits just 600 yards from the border of the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota. Highly radioactive nuclear waste is stored at the facility. WASHINGTON, DC—A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives paves the way for the Prairie Island Indian Community
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Special talks and exhibits will be presented November 2 at Wind Cave in celebration of exploring 150 miles of explored passages. (NPS Photo) WIND CAVE – On Saturday, November 2, Wind Cave is celebrating its 150th mile of exploration with special talks and activities. Programs include hearing exploration stories from
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Part of a bison skull and other bones after being catalogued and placed in climate-controlled storage at SD Mines. RAPID CITY— Between 1993 and 1995, a team of archeologists undertook an excavation of prehistoric animal bones in the Deerfield area of the Black Hills. They found bison, mountain lion, deer,
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Bison are released into a section of Badlands National Park in South Dakota in October 2019. This particular area was recently secured for their use — an area Bison have not roamed since 1870. BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK – Today with 50 people watching, the first snowstorm of the fall laying
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EAGLE BUTTE — Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold C. Frazier has decided to run for president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). Frazier released a statement on Friday saying he accepted the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association’s request to run for the presidency of NCAI. Frazier says
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Waylon Rogers, Tribal Council (Ashland, MT) Elderly Liaison; Mrs. Janet Scott, Vanna Schwamb, Katherine Haugen, Elderly Program Administrative Assistant and local Sheridan volunteer SHERIDAN, WY – In September, two elderly ladies, Janet Scott (82) and Vanna Schwamb (93), both of Sheridan, WY teamed up for a labor of love and
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Oglala Lakota tribal member Kyle White was one of many who testified in defense of Lakota treaty territory. HOT SPRINGS – One hundred percent of the comments here at the Oct. 5 EPA hearing on water permits for the Dewey Burdock Project were against the proposed uranium mining in the
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First Hemp Store is Open on Navajo Nation SHIPROCK, N.M. – In 2000, the Navajo Tribe approved the production of hemp on the Navajo Nation. In 2018, the Navajo Nation San Juan River Farm Board (the Board) then developed the Regulations required to cultivate hemp on individual farms. “After the success of last
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Frank Blanquet (Maya), Tripp Crouse (La Courte Oreille Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Avis Little Eagle (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe) and Christine Trudeau (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) PRIOR LAKE, Minn. – Members of the Native American Journalists Association elected Tripp Crouse (Lac Courte Oreille Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), Avis
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EAGLE BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has just milled more than five (5) miles of damaged road along BIA route 3 using some of the $ 300,000.00 dollars the Bureau of Indian Affairs has provided. Last month Area Director Timothy LaPointe accompanied Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold
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