RAPID CITY—It was announced this week that the Native American Day parade will be canceled. Bruce Long Fox, Executive Director for Rural America Initiatives and Parade Committee Chairman, made this statement: “Parade committee – Thanks for giving of your time and effort to organize the Native American Day parade. Hopefully
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PIERRE / BROOKINGS — The South Dakota Arts and Humanities Councils have come together to support future programming of organizations invested in arts and humanities. The grants through the American Rescue Plan are available now for any organization working to incorporate arts and humanities in their programs. These funds
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Pictured left to right: Colton Small, O.T. Thompson, Lynn Gray, Rol Bradford, Gus Craven. Photo courtesy of Roland Bradford. WAMBLEE—When Gus Craven, the Pastor at Eagle Nest Life Center in Wamblee, SD, heard about the fire on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana and how the fire had burned out some
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WHITESTONE HILL, ND—Members of Cheyenne River, Hunkpapa, Ihanktuwanna, Ihanktuwan, Bdewakantuwan, Sissituwan and Wakpekute, as well as a few non-natives with big hearts, recently finished a memorial horseback ride that started August 28 from Fort Thompson SD and ended at Whitestone Hill on September 3 in North Dakota. Whitestone Hill is
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RAPID CITY—On September 3, the He Sapa Wacipi Board of Directors made an announcement: “Greeting Friends and Relatives, It is with heavy hearts and our deepest regret, that The He Sapa Wacipi Board of Directors with a lot of prayerful planning, concern, and awareness for our community’s health and with
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MONTANA—Given the attacks by the Trump Administration on wildlife and the environment, environmentalists were understandably enthusiastic about the incoming Biden Administration, assuming that many of Trump’s threatening policy changes would be rolled back. Two recent decisions by the Biden Administration on gray wolf protection and fracking restrictions has seriously dampened
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RAPID CITY—Just weeks after the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, positive cases of Covid-19 and its variants are spiking in the Black Hills. Just prior to the start of the Rally, the South Dakota Department of Health (SD DOH) reported 657 active cases on August 4th. As of August 31, we
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Photo of the big screen at Sandhills Drive In located east of Alliance, Nebraska. (Photo courtesy of Sandhills Drive In website) ALLIANCE, NE – Under the direction of Edison Red Nest III and his family, the Sandhills Drive In, located east of Alliance near the Skyview Golf Course, has brought
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First People’s Fund: One-Year Artist Fellowships Deadline: September 6, 2021 Through their Artists in Business Leadership and Cultural Capital Fellowships, First Peoples Fund partners with Native artists and culture bearers to strengthen their business skills and to ensure that art, culture and ancestral knowledge are passed from one generation
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WALL – Golden West Telecommunications will be removing aerial cables from the town of Pine Ridge. Removal work will begin the week of August 23 and continue for up to two weeks depending on weather and other factors. With the completion of the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) project in
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