(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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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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