FLOODWOOD, MN—Early last Friday morning, more than 50 water protectors staged a non-violent direct action to shut down construction of the Gowan North pump station on the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. They blockaded both entrances to the pump station with striking blockades. At one gate, someone ascended a tripod,
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Prisoner Healing: More than 220 inmates form a healing circle at Mike Durfee State Prison on August 7th during a memorial and honoring song for all those lost during the covid-19 pandemic. SPRINGFIELD—“Welcome everybody to our first pow-wow in 18 months. At this wacipi we would like to remember all
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RAPID CITY – Three suspects are now in custody after two shootings, one that left a Rapid City man seriously injured, and another that left a Rapid City woman dead. At around 3:45 a.m. on August 16th, police were dispatched to the 3900 block of Pointe West Place for a
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RAPID CITY – Cis Big Crow of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is the 2021 Volunteer of the Year for the American Red Cross serving Central and Western South Dakota. “Cis has been an exceptional volunteer,” said Richard Smith, executive director of the American Red Cross serving Central and Western
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Photo courtesy of OSTAS Facebook page PINE RIDGE—Last week, Oglala Sioux Tribe Ambulance Service (OSTAS) employees issued a statement via a live Facebook video. The video was posted at 1:54 PM on August 17 and shows a group of uniformed staff standing together, with one staff member reading a statement:
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STURGIS—Final vehicle traffic counts from the South Dakota Department of Transportation for vehicles entering Sturgis for the 81st Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Aug. 6-15, 2021, have been tallied. Traffic counts at nine locations entering Sturgis for the 2021 Rally are as follows: Friday, Aug. 6: 55,326 entering Up
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PIERRE—With the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally just ending and schools beginning, many South Dakotans are worried about increased Covid-19 cases. The South Dakota Department of Health’s daily Covid-19 numbers show a steady increase in active cases. As of August 18, the South Dakota Department of Health’s daily COVID-19 update showed
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WASHINGTON – Tribal police have the authority to detain non-Natives traveling through reservation land if the officer has a reasonable belief that the suspect violated state or federal law, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The unanimous ruling overturned lower courts that said a Crow police officer should not have held a nontribal member who
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RAPID CITY—Across the country conservative groups are working to eliminate or gloss over the darker aspects of American history from education textbooks. That movement has now made itself felt in South Dakota with the recent editing by the South Dakota Department of Education (DOE) of critically important references to the
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BISMARCK, ND—There are few tribal activists that have been more active the past thirty years than Standing Rock’s Tim Mentz. Unlike many activists who deal in aspirational rhetoric, Mentz has always focused on the structural nature of problems; he takes the time to understand every aspect of law and policy
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