Hospital entrance sign. Monument Health’s flagship hospital in Rapid City, S.D., shown here in April 2024, says its federal quality ratings have improved. (Photo: News Watch file) RAPID CITY, S.D. – After two years with the lowest possible health and safety rating from the federal government, Monument Health’s score will
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PIERRE, S.D. – At the most recent South Dakota State Historical Society History Conference, Shane Balkowitsch, a Bismarck, N.D. photographer and artist, presented the historical society with a wet plate collodion image of Olympian Billy Mills. Mills, an Oglala Lakota track and field star, won a gold medal in the
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A proposed drilling project in the Black Hills, which would include placing two dozen drilling pads upstream of the Spearfish Canyon, looks to be moving forward despite hundreds of objections. The popular recreation area is immediately west of Spearfish Canyon. Lilias Jarding from the Black Hills Clean Water Alliance said
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American Indian Health Service of Chicago The federal government recently awarded a Chicago health clinic nearly half a million dollars for a healing circle diabetes program that will treat the disease “through practice of communal songs, prayer, music, and dance,” grant records show. The Department of Health and Human Services
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May is National Mental Health Month. While mental health is rightfully a concern for all, Native Americans have multiple reasons to be committed to learning, acting, and advocating for increased awareness and access to culturally competent mental health care. According to an article published in 2023 by Compassion Behavioral Health,
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Today, Robins Kaplan LLP filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit on behalf of the Spirit Lake Tribe in North Dakota and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin against entities that include Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms, Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok parent company ByteDance, and Alphabet Inc., which owns YouTube
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, led a group of senators urging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to allow for the compassionate release of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier. Mr. Peltier, who has been imprisoned for the past 49 years
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Leonard Peltier Part 4 of a series: Who were the men killed at Pine Ridge? Who were the two FBI special agents that Leonard Peltier was convicted of killing? While Peltier’s name has been prominent in news reports, court hearings and requests for his release from prison by powerful people
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CRST Chairman Ryman LeBeau, Senator Rounds and Don Loudner WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Committees on Indian Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs, today held a ceremony in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the granting of a congressional charter to the National American Indian Veterans (NAIV).
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PIERRE — South Dakota Property Rights and Local Control Alliance (SDPRLCA) announced its formation and its commitment to initiate a referendum on Senate Bill 201 (SB 201). This controversial bill removes local autonomy from counties, municipalities, and townships, paving the way for a single private entity to profit at the
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