Kendrie Owens crowned Hereford Heaven Round-Up Club rodeo queen SULPHUR, Okla. – Kendrie Owens, 5, made her rodeo pageant debut and brought home the crown June 21, at the 78th annual Hereford Heaven Stampede Open Rodeo. She was the youngest contestant in the pageant. Kendrie, a Chickasaw citizen, has been
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U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland poses for a picture, in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales) The award is given annually by the Chief Standing Bear Project to recognize those who embody the spirit of Ponca Chief Standing Bear. LINCOLN — Deb Haaland, the first Native
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“Native America Calling” host Shawn Spruce talks with writer Deborah Jackson Taffa in KUNM’s Albuquerque studio, April 25. (Photo courtesy of Art Hughes) Across Indian Country, no tradition is as revered or timeless as that of oral narrative. For millennia, Natives conveyed their history, their legends and their values from
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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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2025 RedCan featured artists with Julie Garreau, CEO of the Cheyenne River Youth Project (second from right, in rear) EAGLE BUTTE – The Cheyenne River Youth Project’s 11th Annual RedCan Invitational Graffiti Jam wrapped up on Saturday, July 12. Cheyenne River community members of all ages gathered in CRYP’s Waniyetu
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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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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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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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Bellingham, WA—The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations this week heard testimony from Tribes across the nation about the impacts of the drug crisis in Indian Country. The following statement from Tony Hillaire, chairman of the Lummi Nation, can be quoted in-full or in-part. “Indian Country has been hard hit
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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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