A community member presents a stack of unpaid bills to Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer in the Washington Room of Ramkota on March 2 RAPID CITY – An important meeting on healthcare in the Rapid City community began quietly and then people started to pull out stacks of health
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U.S. Attorney General Ron Parsons United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that 37 people have been federally indicted as part of OCDETF Operation Say Uncle. OCDETF stands for Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, which is a “keystone of the Attorney General’s strategy to reduce the availability of illicit narcotics
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RAPID CITY – The Oglala Sioux Tribe Health and Human Services Committee will be meeting in Rapid City at the Ramkota in the Washington Room on Tuesday, March 2. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. to discuss the OST Master Health Programs – CHR, Native Healing and Native Women’s
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Former Navajo Nation President, Albert Hale. WASHINGTON – The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) offered the following statement from NIHB Chairman William Smith on the loss of former Navajo Nation President Albert Hale. “On behalf of the National Indian Health Board, my heart and prayers go out to Albert Hale,
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PINE RIDGE – The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has authorized legal action in response to a federal Bureau of Land Management decision allowing oil-and-gas fracking on a 1.5-million-acre swatch of unceded Ft. Laramie Treaty territory in Wyoming, the Native Sun News Today learned Jan. 6. The BLM denied all of
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(Photo Credit) Roger Baron By Roger Baron, Professor Emeritus The observations contained herein are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of the University of South Dakota. The order of presentation is chronological. Preliminary Comments: Both the criminal and civil dockets are included. Five of the
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While masks and social distancing are the two prime strategies any person can use to combat the spread of COVID-19, the very practice of them restricts people from doing what people do best— galvanizing others to do something positive and productive. One simple individual way to help health care workers
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Artist Dale Lamphere and BHSU President Laurie S. Nichols with the scale model of The Hive sculpture that honors the connections between the University and Spearfish community. SPEARFISH – A 20-foot sculpture by Dale Claude Lamphere, a Sturgis resident who attended Black Hills State University before going on to an
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RAPID CITY – Officials are reminding City utility customers with overdue accounts that beginning next month, the City will resume discontinuation of residential and commercial utility services for non-payment of utility bills. This practice was suspended in March due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. City utility customers with
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A civil lawsuit filed in the wake of a bond scandal that defrauded the Wakpamni Lake Community Corporation and retirement investment funds of $43 million has been dismissed. The suit alleged that law firms involved failed to perform their due diligence in the issuance of the fraudulent bonds. The Wakpamni
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