The new San Carlos Apache Tribe Health Center located in Peridot, Arizona. (Photo courtesy IHS) In a recent 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision in the case of San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Becerra, the court ruled that the Indian Health Service must reimburse tribally-run health programs for overhead costs
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The city of Faith in rural northwestern South Dakota recently enacted a code enforcement crackdown that may be put on hold after strong public outcry. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch) Applause rang out among residents at the city council meeting in Faith on Tuesday, July 16 when
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Mother and daughter spending time together outside at the park for mother’s day. (Photo by Freepix) WASHINGTON D.C. – Indigenous people are rightly concerned about the high incidence of substance abuse/addiction, suicide, intergenerational trauma, post-traumatic stress, domestic violence and other mental health issues in Native communities. July is BIPOC Mental
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Rapid City among RAISE grant recipients for 2024. (Photo City of Rapid City) RAPID CITY – There are some long-awaited transportation projects that will soon be coming to fruition, all of them either partially or fully funded thanks to federal partnership. At a recent Planning Commission meeting, officials announced a
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Charles Merrival (Photo courtesy Merrival family) RAPID CITY – Nearly two months after Gov. Kristi Noem used a photo of him as alleged proof that cartels have overrun tribal communities, a Rapid City man accepted a plea deal this week to a drug conspiracy charge. Charles Cain Merrival, a member
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BOULDER, Colo. – WILD.org and Wilderness Foundation Global are proud to announce the 12th World Wilderness Congress (WILD12), to be held from Sunday, August 25 to Saturday, August 31, 2024 in He Sápa, the Black Hills, the sacred lands of the Lakota Nation. The event’s host will be the Sicangu
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Newark Exploratory Drilling Project Decision Memo Map April 2024. (Map provided by Forest Service) CUSTER – As the Forest Service put a hold on the Ponderosa proposed gold exploration drilling project in the northern Black Hills, another has been given permission. Last week, the Black Hills National Forest Service gave
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Leonard Peltier By SEARCHLIGHT STAFF A Native American man convicted of killing two FBI agents 49 years ago in South Dakota has lost what could be his final chance at parole, after widespread activism in support of his release. Leonard Peltier, 79, is serving two consecutive life terms in prison
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Darrow Pits, an old, abandoned uranium mine north of Edgemont. Photo from Rapid City Journal provided by BHCWA. BLACK HILLS – It’s a new mining boom in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Traditional mining for gold and oil and gas has given way to new and sometimes
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A century later: On June 10, following the “Re-Imagining Citizenship” event in Bismarck, N.D., Cheryl Kary, the executive director at Sacred Pipe Resource Center, displayed a photo of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s 1924 observance of the Indian Citizenship Act passage. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame) A federal official spoke a hundred
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