By Grace Terry Native Sun News Today Correspondent EAGLE BUTTE –During National Mental Health Awareness in May, the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) reminds us that any caring individual can become an advocate for people who are affected by mental illness and an advocate for improved mental health education
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CHERRY CREEK – Sacred belongings stolen from Lakota who were murdered in 1890 at the Wounded Knee massacre languished for over a century in a museum in Barre, Massachusetts. The belongings included clothing, pipes, and other artifacts. For decades, the museum and the Lakota tribes engaged in negotiations for
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Badlands Heritage Ranch located south of Interior. (Photo courtesy Heidi Cuny) INTERIOR – Badlands Heritage Guest Ranch is pleased to announce the summer’s first community campfire series happening the last three Fridays of June. This series of events features cowboy poetry performances from renowned artists Sherl Cederburg and Pegie Douglas.
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Friday, May 17, 2024, is the third annual Native Nonprofit Day (NND), according to the Native Ways Foundation (NWF), founded in 2008 by a group of national Native-led nonprofits to activate and expand informed giving in Indian Country. The founding organizations include the American Indian College Fund, the American Indian
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Star Village sign RAPID CITY, SD—Rapid City is one of 16 communities nationwide selected for a ‘Love Your Block’ grant by Johns Hopkins University. The University announced the national selections earlier today. The grant for $100,000 is awarded to the City of Rapid City and will be used to support
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On Earth Day 2024 (April 22), President Biden announced the official start of his groundbreaking workforce training and service initiative that will put tens of thousands of young Americans to work fighting the impacts of climate change today while training tomorrow’s clean energy and climate-resilience workforce. Called the American Climate
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INDIANAPOLIS – A national commission is calling on the federal government to declare a “Decade of Action and Healing” regarding the public safety crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples. The commission issued a report listing its many findings, including problems of reporting and collecting data. The U.S. Interior and
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Dana Hanna Dana Hanna dedicated his life to fighting for justice. He began his legal career as a prosecutor in Nebraska before moving to New York City. His heart was pulled back to the Midwest where he hoped he could help make a difference. “He was dedicated to justice,” said
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Hospital entrance sign. Monument Health’s flagship hospital in Rapid City, S.D., shown here in April 2024, says its federal quality ratings have improved. (Photo: News Watch file) RAPID CITY, S.D. – After two years with the lowest possible health and safety rating from the federal government, Monument Health’s score will
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PIERRE, S.D. – At the most recent South Dakota State Historical Society History Conference, Shane Balkowitsch, a Bismarck, N.D. photographer and artist, presented the historical society with a wet plate collodion image of Olympian Billy Mills. Mills, an Oglala Lakota track and field star, won a gold medal in the
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