Superintendent Walking Eagle Receives Gifted Children Award

  SAINT FRANCIS — Saint Francis Indian School Superintendent Danielle Walking Eagle will be honored by the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) with the prestigious Administrator Award. The celebration and honoring will happen on November 15, 2025, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to recognize her outstanding contributions to supporting gifted and

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The youngest Rodeo Queen, Kendrie Owens

Kendrie Owens crowned Hereford Heaven Round-Up Club rodeo queen SULPHUR, Okla. – Kendrie Owens, 5, made her rodeo pageant debut and brought home the crown June 21, at the 78th annual Hereford Heaven Stampede Open Rodeo. She was the youngest contestant in the pageant. Kendrie, a Chickasaw citizen, has been

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Haaland to be honored with Chief Standing Bear Prize

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland poses for a picture, in Albuquerque, N.M., Monday, June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales) The award is given annually by the Chief Standing Bear Project to recognize those who embody the spirit of Ponca Chief Standing Bear. LINCOLN — Deb Haaland, the first Native

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Trump administration delivers blow to Native media

“Native America Calling” host Shawn Spruce talks with writer Deborah Jackson Taffa in KUNM’s Albuquerque studio, April 25. (Photo courtesy of Art Hughes) Across Indian Country, no tradition is as revered or timeless as that of oral narrative. For millennia, Natives conveyed their history, their legends and their values from

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New Ronald McDonald House® coming to Rapid City

  RAPID CITY — Ronald McDonald House Charities of South Dakota (RMHC-SD) is thrilled to announce plans to build a Ronald McDonald House in Rapid City, expanding the organization’s mission of “keeping families close” to western South Dakota! Since 1983, more than 6,400 West River South Dakota families have spent

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Protecting public lands

Former Mount Rushmore superintendent Cheryl Schreier speaking at Campus West. Photo by Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – The Sierra Club Black Hills Group hosted a meeting recently at the Game, Fish and Parks Campus West in Rapid City to give concerned citizens an update from former Mount Rushmore superintendent Cheryl

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Trump threatens to hold up stadium deal if Washington Commanders don’t switch back to old nickname

Credit: The Washington Commanders, unveil their NFL football team’s new identity, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) President Donald Trump threatened to interrupt a new stadium deal for Washington’s National Football League team demanding the owner restore its old name of the R-word, a dictionary defined

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White sands footprints

Ancient footprints at White Sands perhaps 23,000 years old (Photo courtesy of chrissysenecal.com) HILL CITY—Prominently located on Main Street in Hill City is the Black Hills Institute Museum, primarily focused on the fossils of extinct dinosaur and mammal megafauna. This fossil record is deep, and scientifically certain, but before fossils

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