Yes Virginia: There is a Native American Day

  RAPID CITY – It was one of those fall days in 1990 that has South Dakota putting its best foot forward. The temperature hovered in the seventies, the sun was shining and a small breeze rustled through the pine trees. It was a perfect day for Governor George Mickelson

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 7, 2021

The death of a salesman

When I opened an office of my newspaper in Rapid City back in the 1980s one of my frequent visitors was Lloyd Goings. It appeared that he just loved the newspaper business and so he would stop by our new office nearly every day to visit and bring us news.

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 1, 2021

Juvenile justice for Native children 

HONOLULU – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, issued the following statement upon President Biden’s signing of S. 325, which extends the deadline for the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children to submit its report to Congress and the

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 1, 2021

Rally for reproductive rights

Coalition of Local Women’s and Indigenous Rights Organizations Host Black Hills Rally for Reproductive Rights on October 2, 2021   “We need each other. We need to bring our cultural ways of getting along, regardless of skin color. Dig down and show your children that fierceness. We fight for our

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 1, 2021

Sioux Falls Native American Day Parade canceled

SIOUX FALLS— The Native American Day Parade has been a celebration and recognition of the Oceti Sakowin and all Indigenous people in South Dakota since 2018. Last year, the parade was canceled as COVID-19 cases rose in South Dakota. This year, despite the availability of a COVID vaccine, another surge

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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 23, 2021

Navajo Times publisher gets Medill Achievement Award

Tom Arviso, Jr., is the CEO and Publisher of Navajo Times Publishing Co., Inc. (Courtesy Photo) EVANSTON, Ill. –Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, and the Native American Journalists Association, have selected Tom Arviso Jr. as the 2021 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award recipient. Arviso is the

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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 23, 2021

Covid-19 update

RAPID CITY―Just weeks after the school year began, positive Covid-19 cases among children and teachers are on the rise. As of September 13, the Rapid City Area Schools (RCAS) website showed 247 current active cases in RCAS district, which includes 23 staff and 224 students. The RCAS website also showed

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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 16, 2021