Black Hills Film Festival 2025

  • 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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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 4, 2025

Sculpting class

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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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 29, 2025

Storm cleanup big business

(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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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 28, 2025

Duplicity flourishes among a select few

  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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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 28, 2025

Sisseton-Wahpeton leader calls lawmaker’s now-deleted social media post ‘inflammatory’

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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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 22, 2025