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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Northern Cheyenne interim tribal council conduct business at Northern Cheyenne Tribal office in Lamedeer, Mont. (Photo courtesy YouTube) Revolutions do not ever go smoothly or according to plan. Instead, they seem to take on a life of their own. That’s what appears to be happening at Northern Cheyenne. It has
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Valeriah Big Eagle poses for a photo. Big Eagle is running for the Ward 4 representative seat in Rapid City, South Dakota. Credit: Courtesy of Valeriah Big Eagle RAPID CITY, South Dakota – Valeriah Big Eagle knows what it’s like to face systemic racism living in an urban area as
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The South Dakota Women’s Prison at 156-percent capacity according to the state Department of Corrections. Lee Strubinger/SDPB/ South Dakota incarcerates women at the highest rate in the world, according a new report. The Prison Policy Initiative report found South Dakota has more women in prison per capita than any other
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Mike Lavedure, DSGW Principal Architect – Meghan Marks, Azimuth Construction Services Project Director – Frank Scopetti, Azimuth Construction Services President – Joe Ellington, DSGW Senior Architect. (Photos courtesy Warren LeBeau) EAGLE BUTTE – To create and develop the future Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Administration Office, the partners from the Blue
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