Activists gather at the ‘Red Road to DC’ stop in Minnesota last week (Photo by Wingspan Media and courtesy of Pyramid Communications) Tribal leaders and Native activists warn that pipeline threatens sacred waters, violates treaty PARK RAPIDS, MN—Tribal members from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and Native organizers called
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Cartoon by Thom Little Moon (Courtesy of Indian Country Today Circa 1995) It was in 1989 when the Publisher of the Lakota Times (the original Lakota Times), Tim Giago, got a phone call from a graduate student at the University of Illinois named Charlene Teters. Teters had read
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This undated photo shows a tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, which will be returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The university’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it’s been working
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Antelope Community Election Committee Rosebud Primary Election July 22.2021. Left to right: Marissa Long Warrior, Grace Menard, Vernette Long Warrior, Samuel White Horse. (Photo by Ronald L. Neiss, RST Election Board Member) The Rosebud Sioux Tribe held their Primary elections across 22 community polling sites on Thursday July 22. Unofficial
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Hickory Street Kitchen & Cocktails owners Tracey and Nik Sing. (Photo courtesy of Cuny Communications) SISSETON—As the COVID-19 pandemic winds down around the country, many restaurants are picking up the pieces and struggling to re-start operations. However, in the town of Sisseton, South Dakota, Hickory Street Kitchen & Cocktails, is
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to the Southern Bighorn Solar Project on Tribal lands in Nevada. The Department also announced that construction for the Arrow Canyon Solar Project has begun. Together, these two key developments
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT—The sacred landscape of Bears Ears needs immediate protection, said members of the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni, and Ute Indian Tribe. In an event held as part of the Red Road to DC, a cross-country tour highlighting Indigenous sacred
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COUNSELOR, NM—Pueblo and Diné leaders and activists today hosted an event calling on President Biden to protect Greater Chaco Canyon and stop issuing new oil and gas leases in the sacred landscape. In an event held as part of the Red Road to DC, a cross-country tour highlighting Indigenous
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Clarkston, WA—Members of the Nez Perce Tribe today called on President Biden to take immediate action to protect Snake River salmon. In an event held as part of the Red Road to DC, a cross-country tour highlighting Indigenous sacred sites at risk, tribal members urged the Biden administration to immediately
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The transformed apartment complex on Eagle Butte’s Main Street. (Photo courtesy of Cheyenne River Youth Project.) EAGLE BUTTE — It’s always exciting when artists, performers, volunteers, and guests gather at the Cheyenne River Youth Project in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, for the four-day RedCan invitational graffiti jam. But this
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