From left, Tim Ridgway, vice president of health affairs and Sanford School of Medicine dean, speaks with medical students including Tanner Smith and Tanner Berg, as well as South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden, at the Canopy by Hilton in downtown Sioux Falls on Aug. 14, 2025. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South
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Your local Menards home improvement store is now serving as a drop site for a local food pantry during the months of June & July, 2026. We’re excited to participate in this wonderful opportunity while lending a helping hand to the community during the next three months. Menards offers
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Boe and Larry at the 13th Annual Swalley Memorial Tournament MARTIN — Under clear skies and summerlike warmth, the 13th Annual Zondo and Leroy Swalley Memorial Golf Tournament brought 44 two-person scramble teams to Markota Acres Golf Course on Saturday, May 23, 2026. The event, a staple of the Martin
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Tawney Brunsch, Executive Director of Lakota Funds, shares ideas on future projects and housing needs on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Lakota Funds received $764,000 to finance home loans for Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (USDA Imagery by Michael Frye.) (Huron, S.D., June 3, 2026) – U.S. Department
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Week of May 29 – June 3, 2026 Navajo Nation declares state of emergency over water system failures The Navajo Nation Council voted unanimously this week to declare a state of emergency after multiple community water systems failed across the eastern agency, leaving more than 9,000 residents without reliable access
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Author: Crystal Wahpapah Crystal Wahpepah’s A Feather and A Fork: 125 Intertribal Dishes from an Indigenous Food Warrior is more than a cookbook, it is a reclamation, a remembering, and a gentle but firm insistence that Indigenous foodways are not relics of the past but living, breathing relatives. Wahpepah,
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Black Elk Peak, the tallest mountain in South Dakota’s Black Hills, will host a hike on May 30, 2026.commemorating the collaboration that led to the book, “Black Elk Speaks,” as well as the renaming of the peak a decade ago. (Paul Hammel/ Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — One of the nation’s
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Interior Department announces $120 million for Tribal water infrastructure The U.S. Department of the Interior announced $120 million in new Tribal water infrastructure funding this week, targeting long delayed drinking water and wastewater projects in the Southwest and Northern Plains. Several of the funded projects address decades old shortages on
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Eighth-grade students from St. Joseph’s Indian School gather for a group photo during the 2025-26 school year in Chamberlain, South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of St. Joseph’s Indian School) CHAMBERLAIN – St. Joseph’s Indian School celebrated 16 eighth-grade graduates on May 22 during a ceremony in the school’s Our Lady of
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The newly re-envisioned Chatkú Arts Center in Mahpíya Lúta, Pine Ridge, stands ready to welcome visitors for its Grand Opening Celebration on June 6, 2026. Formerly The Heritage Center, the space continues a decades-long legacy of uplifting Native artists and preserving Indigenous creativity through exhibitions, education, and community engagement. MAHPIYA
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