Timpsela gathered by Makoce Agriculture. PORCUPINE—Makoce Agriculture Development, based out of Porcupine, will receive $2.5 million to help build an indigenous food system located on the Pine Ridge reservation. Efforts to gain help, came through via a $2.5 million Community Innovation Grant, from the Bush Foundation, and is earmarked to
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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 29, 2022
Rapid City Indian School circa 1920’s (Courtesy State Historical Society) RAPID CITY—Construction is set to begin in October on the first national public memorial built on the site of a former Indian boarding school in Rapid City. The Rapid City Indian Boarding School was located on land near West Middle
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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 22, 2022
Crystal meth (Photo courtesy) RAPID CITY—US District Judge Karen Schreier handed down a sentence for Lew Bettelyoun, 46, Pine Ridge, on July 8 for 15 years in prison, and five years supervised release, after Bettelyoun was convicted of Methamphetamine trafficking. Bettelyoun pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance
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RAPID CITY—A Former bus driver at Red Cloud Indian School will spend a total of 18 year in federal prison for a sexual relationship with a 14 year old student. US District Judge Jeffrey Viken, sentenced Stacey Garnette, 44, of Allen on July 6 to 18 years in prison and
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Benjamin Wendall Smoke (Courtesy photo) RAPID CITY—In March of 2019, Dale EcofFey. Sr., 55, Pine Ridge, died of injuries received from a beating by Benjamin Wendell Smoke, 63, Manderson. Smoke was convicted of assault resulting in serious bodily injury and sentenced to eight years. He was also sentenced to five
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PIERRE – South Dakota has received the highest rating possible under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA, for both Parts B and C for the most recent reporting year of federal fiscal year 2020. The state is one of only 15 across the country to meet the requirements
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Shared by Native Sun News Today July 16, 2022
The Pawnee Nation celebrated being a National Telecommunications and Information Administration Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantee at a press conference on June 23. (Photo: Pawnee Nation) OKLAHOMA—The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) recently announced Pawnee Nation as one of its grant recipients as part of the Tribal
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Jenny Gulch RAPID CITY—On Monday morning the US Forest Service green-lit a project for exploratory gold drilling near Pactola Reservoir, close to Jenny Gulch. The project, designed to drill a series of holes and take core samples, is a precursor event to test for ores, suitable for mining prospects in
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RAPID CITY — In response to recent news that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade today, ending the federal right to abortion, NDN Collective released the following statements: “This system is not made by Indigenous people, or for us. It has lost all moral and ethical authority
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RAPID CITY—A Rapid City woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing $65,000 and multiple passports after knocking over a mailbox with her car in February 2021. Courtney Twiss, of Rapid City, backed into a mailbox cluster at Star Village in February 20, 2021, detaching it from its
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