SICANGU MAKOCE, Oceti Sakowin – On September 14 the Rosebud Economic Development Corporation (REDCO) announced plans for a new language preservation initiative that will pay learners an annual salary to become fluent Lakota speakers. The new program aims to reduce barriers for citizens of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Rosebud Sioux
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PINE RIDGE—The Pine Ridge Indian Health Service has posted several community vaccination events. Who can get the vaccine: The following COVID vaccinations are available at all locations: Ages 12 years of age and older – 1st doses and 2nd doses of Pfizer COVID vaccine Ages 18 years of age
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RAPID CITY—On September 3, the He Sapa Wacipi Board of Directors made an announcement: “Greeting Friends and Relatives, It is with heavy hearts and our deepest regret, that The He Sapa Wacipi Board of Directors with a lot of prayerful planning, concern, and awareness for our community’s health and with
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MONTANA—Given the attacks by the Trump Administration on wildlife and the environment, environmentalists were understandably enthusiastic about the incoming Biden Administration, assuming that many of Trump’s threatening policy changes would be rolled back. Two recent decisions by the Biden Administration on gray wolf protection and fracking restrictions has seriously dampened
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WHITESTONE HILL, ND—Members of Cheyenne River, Hunkpapa, Ihanktuwanna, Ihanktuwan, Bdewakantuwan, Sissituwan and Wakpekute, as well as a few non-natives with big hearts, recently finished a memorial horseback ride that started August 28 from Fort Thompson SD and ended at Whitestone Hill on September 3 in North Dakota. Whitestone Hill is
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A typical watershed threatened by Trump’s Dirty Water Rule. (Photo courtesy of Wildearth Guardians.) TUCSON, AZ—Mni Wiconi, “Water is Life,” was the rallying cry of the Oceti Sakowin tribes that stood against the DAPL pipeline at Standing Rock, but threats to clean water have been an issue across the nation,
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Protesters with opposing views gathered before the Rapid City Area School board meeting on September 7. (Image is a screenshot of a Rapid City Journal YouTube video) RAPID CITY—As Covid-19 cases surge across the Black Hills, the war over masks and vaccines rages on. What began as a global pandemic/public
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Susan Fast Eagle RAPID CITY – The Rapid City Police Department is offering $3,000 for information that leads police to the location of 30-year-old Fast Eagle of Rapid City. The funds have been authorized by the Community Reward Fund. Police have been working to locate Fast Eagle since she was
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PAUL, MN—On Saturday, August 28th, law enforcement arrested more than 60 individuals who were peacefully protesting outside the residence of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Demonstrators gathered with Line 3 pipeline resistance group Camp Migizi to demand that Walz take action to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. Taysha Martineau,
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RAPID CITY—Just weeks after the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, positive cases of Covid-19 and its variants are spiking in the Black Hills. Just prior to the start of the Rally, the South Dakota Department of Health (SD DOH) reported 657 active cases on August 4th. As of August 31, we
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