Angie Eagle Bull (Courtesy of Facebook) Oglala Lakota County School District Board Member Angie Eagle Bull was honored by Associated School Boards of South Dakota with the Distinguished Service Award, which honors school board members for reaching milestone years in their service on their local school board. The start of
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Rapid City—As the winds begin to shift and the first signs of fall settle over the Black Hills, a quiet but urgent call is rising from the heart of Rapid City. Pejuta Waste O’Tipi | Good Medicine Lodge, the only Native American and Indigenous-led center for unsheltered relatives in
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Charles Rencountre (right) discusses sculpting pouring technique with student Mark Lonehill. (Photo by James Giago Davies) RAPID CITY—Most Native art focuses on the past because it is this romanticized tableau that people crave. Artists are refined in a system that rewards and encourages this perspective. Charles Rencountre, an enrolled member
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A quarter of South Dakota Public Broadcasting staff will soon be out of a job, but optimism remains that donors could help restore some services and positions before cuts take effect. SDPB Executive Director Julie Overgaard announced Thursday that 15 SDPB employees will be laid off and five vacant positions
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(Photo courtesy of Sarasota Herald-Tribune) Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in Transylvania County, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She grew up there, and has tried to give back to the land by planting native shrubs and flowers. She’s intensified
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For over a half century the inability of the Rapid City Indian Community to work together in common cause has allowed the duplicitous and unprincipled among us to work in cahoots with Wasicu to steal the land set aside for needy Indians. This land cut a swath, from Stevens
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J. Garret Renville, chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, speaks to visitors from the State-Tribal Relations Committee about the tribe’s artifacts on July 31, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) AGENCY VILLAGE — The chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate said Thursday during a meeting of South Dakota’s State-Tribal Relations Committee that an
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Chelsie Baldwin RAPID CITY—Indian Country challenges are filtered through the prism of both activist and advocate. Most people do not understand the difference between the two, but both groups have contributed mightily to the betterment of tribal nations. Each brings passion and perspective essential to address the complicated issues and
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A boy starts the generator behind his home on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona on May 8, 2019. Jake Bacon / AP Photo (Update: President Trump signed the domestic policy and tax bill into law on Friday, July 4.) President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax bill is on its way to
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Dancers perform in the men’s Northern Traditional dance competition at the 20th annual Gathering of Nations Powwow on April 26, 2003, at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico. More than 3,000 dancers from all over the United States and Canada took part in the gathering that year. ALBUQUERQUE — After
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