Volunteers with the Rapid City-based non-profit COUP Council serve meals at the Pejuta Waste Day Center. Credit: Courtesy of COUP Council RAPID CITY, S.D. – For many tribes, access to food is a treaty right, meaning the potential loss of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Nov. 1
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Phil Two Eagle, CEO, Prta Omniciye, Inc. The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Councils extend this message to the Oyate with urgency and vision: it is time for our people to take solid, collective steps toward true self-sufficiency and self-sustainability. For too long, we have relied on systems that do not serve
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RAPID CITY—Next week, kids throughout the community will be parading through neighborhoods in colorful costumes knocking on doors seeking tiny sweet treats for Halloween. For a fourth consecutive year, the City’s Community Relations Commission is seeking donations of candy and costumes in support of the Knollwood Trunk or Treat
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Jerome Kills Small will share music and stories to celebrate Native American Heritage Month during the National Music Museum’s Discovery Saturday on November 1. The National Music Museum (NMM) and the Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota will celebrate Native American Heritage Month during Discovery
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This is rutting season for elk, the perfect time to harvest them. It is a favorite time of year for recalling my nearly two decades of working at wilderness hunting camps as a cook. After finally getting an elk, the local butcher could be swamped, forcing you into a
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RAPID CITY – The Black Hills Powwow is one of Rapid City’s premiere annual events, and the Thirty-Seventh Annual event held in the Summit Arena at the Monument from October 10-12, 2025, did not disappoint. Nineteen year-old Precious Cook, or Spotted Eagle Woman, was crowned the new 2025-2026 Miss He
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day Parade 2025 float. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Downtown Rapid City was aglow in pink balloons, banners, streamers, and t-shirts on Saturday morning as parade-goers began lining up along Main Street to claim the best spots and floats were lining up to show-off their themes
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Leonard Peltier, 81, speaks about his experience in boarding school and recent freedom from federal prison during the annual Remembering the Children Walk in Rapid City on Oct. 13. RAPID CITY, South Dakota – Under crisp autumn winds, a sea of orange moved through the west side of Rapid City
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Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council members arrested. (Courtesy photo) LAMEDEER, Mont. – “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller As first reported by Native Sun News Today, recent politics at Northern Cheyenne have
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Federally unrecognized Dakota file lawsuit against US LAKE PEPIN, MN—In 1830, when U.S. treaty negotiators met Dakota and other tribal leaders at Prairie du Chien, one seemingly small provision would cast a long shadow over the next century of Dakota history. That treaty—sometimes called the Fourth Treaty of Prairie du
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