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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RAPID CITY – The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed Donna Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and Charmaine White Face’s challenge against IHS about Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board’s (GPTCHB) 638 contract. The original challenge was dismissed from the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota –
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Part II The Vore Buffalo Jump (VBJ) near Sundance, Wyoming is one of the largest preserved big game kill sites in the world, said Dr. Charles Reher, the leading archaeologist who excavated the site, devoting much of his career to get the site protected, researched and donated to UW and
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‘The Courage to Bloom’ design was “influenced by the Apache and Crow cultural landscapes, from the Crazy Mountain Range in the Northern Rockies of Montana to the Salt River Canyon,” Anderson says. DENVER — The American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills, the international lifestyle brand headquartered in Portland,
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EAGLE BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe had 218 active cases of the novel coronavirus on its north-central South Dakota reservation. Tribal government, quickly identifying the virus’s exponential growth and severe threat to public health, activated “Level 5” of its Covid-19 response plan. The nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project
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BROOKINGS – The statewide South Dakota Humanities Council has awarded more than $400,000 to cultural organizations struggling to maintain operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The CARES grants, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by SDHC, provided unrestricted operating support, humanities program support, or both to qualifying
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PRIOR LAKE, Minn. – The Scott County Historical Society and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) announced today that the society has donated a rifle to the tribe that was once owned by Mdewakanton Dakota leader Sakpe II. Originally on loan from the organization, this historic artifact is now part
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ALBUQUERQUE – In honor of Native American Heritage Month, American Indian Graduate Center has established the Empowering Scholars Initiative, which will increase the organization’s reach as it transforms the educational journeys of Native scholars. The $1M scholarship launch is set to happen on November 1, 2020, thanks to the generosity
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RAPID CITY –The Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board (GPTLHB) and the Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center is pleased to announce a funding opportunity through the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) to award mini-research project grants that contribute to the Public Health educational development of American
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