STANDING ROCK—Recently Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill to help facilitate the return of ancestral human remains to the tribes in his state. The Human Remains Protection Act updates a 1989 state statute to complement the 1990 federal law, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). While
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Sicangu Lakota, Photo by Google ROSEBUD – For decades, the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council has advocated for the treaty rights of the Lakota Nation. And it will continue this legacy this week in the highest echelons of the Federal Government as a participant in the White House Summit on Building
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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Throughout October, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and STTARS Indigenous Safe Housing Center (STTARS) will host webinars and panels, provide social media toolkits, and participate in various awareness days in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). DVAM offers advocates
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M.S. Ed., Dakota Hunkpati FORT THOMPSON – The Dakota Hunkpati Kunsi-Unci Society had its beginnings in 2014 when the late Stella Pretty Sounding Flute, Dakota Hunkpati, expressed her wishes for Oyate to bring back the sacred “Horse dance.” Paying tribute to Stella’s request, her niece Belinda F. Joe (Rencountre), Jean
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CRAZY HORSE – Crazy Horse Memorial® will host its annual Native Americans’ Day celebrations on Monday, October 9, 2023. The all-day event features a Native Americans’ Day Program, hands-on activities, and performances by Pamyua, a nationally acclaimed Alaska Native performance group. The Native Americans’ Day Program begins at 10:00am
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the U.S. House by unanimous consent. This bill preserves a section of the land where hundreds of Lakota Indians were massacred by the U.S. Army. U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the bill in May after
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MISSOULA, Mont. – The University of Montana (UM) Skaggs School of Pharmacy recently was awarded over$2.4 million in grant funding by the Health Resources and Service Administration. The award will help Montana’s only pharmacy school recruit and support Indigenous pharmacy students through the University’s Native American Center of Excellence. NACOE,
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MAȞPÍYA LÚTA – Across America, fans are awaiting the October release of acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns’ latest film called “The American Buffalo.” In South Dakota, an early screening of that film will include a series of unique and exciting events. “It is a quintessentially American story,” Burns said, “filled with
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Wilma Mankiller became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1985. She reminded her opponents that objections to Native women in leadership are a colonial imposition. In a proclamation issued by President Joseph Biden on August 25, 2023, he wrote, “On Women’s Equality Day (August 26), we
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Left to right: Natasha Martinez (Diné/Chiricahua Apache), Keona Hosteen (Navajo Nation), Selena Romero (Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona), Amanda Charger (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe), Sky Harper (Navajo Nation), Sam Lee Regan (Cherokee Nation), Chenoa Webster (Oneida Nation), Nessa Ankney (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), Brianna Waukau (Menominee Indian Tribe
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