New Ronald McDonald House® coming to Rapid City

  RAPID CITY — Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Dakota (RMHC-SD) is thrilled to announce plans to build a Ronald McDonald House in Rapid City, expanding the organization’s mission of “keeping families close” to western South Dakota! Since 1983, more than 6,400 West River South Dakota families have spent

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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 1, 2025

Protecting public lands

Former Mount Rushmore superintendent Cheryl Schreier speaking at Campus West. Photo by Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – The Sierra Club Black Hills Group hosted a meeting recently at the Game, Fish and Parks Campus West in Rapid City to give concerned citizens an update from former Mount Rushmore superintendent Cheryl

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 26, 2025

Trump threatens to hold up stadium deal if Washington Commanders don’t switch back to old nickname

Credit: The Washington Commanders, unveil their NFL football team’s new identity, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) President Donald Trump threatened to interrupt a new stadium deal for Washington’s National Football League team demanding the owner restore its old name of the R-word, a dictionary defined

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 26, 2025

White sands footprints

Ancient footprints at White Sands perhaps 23,000 years old (Photo courtesy of chrissysenecal.com) HILL CITY—Prominently located on Main Street in Hill City is the Black Hills Institute Museum, primarily focused on the fossils of extinct dinosaur and mammal megafauna. This fossil record is deep, and scientifically certain, but before fossils

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 26, 2025

Empowering Native filmmakers

Reel Jobs Film School hosts 10th Annual Summer Film Camp in Kyle, SD KYLE — Starting July 21st and ending July 30th, 2025, Reel Jobs Film School will host its 10th Summer Film Camp at its Kyle, SD Campus. Over the next two weeks, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 18, 2025

The treaty of 1825

Northern Great Plains, showing tribal regions and relevant locations at the time of the 1825 Atkinson- O’Fallon expedition. Present-day state boundaries are shown. NSHS & Kingsley Bray PINE RIDGE—Two hundred years ago this month, the United States formally entered into a treaty of friendship and protection with the Sioux Nation—a

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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 18, 2025