Indian treaty rights are one reason judge denied South Dakota governor’s lawsuit to hold fireworks. She sends second letter to U.S. President despite court ruling that explained wildfire and perchlorate problems at national monument in tribes’ unceded Black Hills territory. COURTESY / Kristi Noem PIERRE – South Dakota Gov. Kristi
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On the same day Canadian pipeline developer TC Energy announced that it’s officially terminating its Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline project, one Native American activist has avoided jail time for her protest against it. Jasilyn Charger, represented by attorney Terry L. Pechota, pled no contest today to a charge of criminal
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Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia finalized settlement of litigation between the Department of the Interior and plaintiffs in Peltier v. Haaland. The litigation was filed in 1992 by individual and Tribal beneficiaries of the Pembina Judgment Fund, alleging mismanagement and
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Photo of the Hemp House in Pine Ridge by Kim Lathe. RAPID CITY-Back in the early 1900’s the agricultural industry in South Dakota got a new and very valuable partner in the Aby’s Feed and Seed grain elevator. Built in 1911, it was situated close to the railroad tracks in
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Custer’s Last Stand has many names. White America calls it the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Many tribes refer to it as the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Whatever the battlefield in southeastern Montana is called, what it is no longer called is a massacre. The Oxford dictionary defines
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WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, June 22, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland will address the National Congress of American Indians 2021 Mid Year Conference to announce steps the Interior Department will take to begin to reconcile the troubled legacy of
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BUFFALO, WY – On both Saturday and Sunday, June 11 & 12, 2021 the grandstands at Johnson County Fairgrounds were packed to capacity – standing room only for the 2021 Tour of Champions Indian Relay Races. Most of the crowd was non-Indian, sprinkled with Crows, Arapahoe and Northern Cheyenne, Indians
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Pipeline fighter Jasilyn Charger, sentenced June 9 for the act of civil disobedience of locking herself to a KXL pump station in treaty-protected Native homelands, heard the news that same day of the megaproject’s demise and declared, “Death to KXL.” COURTESY / Jasilyn Charger and Mni Un Wiconi SPEARFISH –
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A top cleric in Germany’s Catholic Church has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it is important to me to share the responsibility for the catastrophe of the sexual abuse by Church officials over the past
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In a Native-led gathering of some 2,000 pipeline fighters, participants — hoping to attract President Biden’s attention — marched to establish a camp on a spot where the Canadian Enbridge Energy Inc. wants to lay Line 3 pipes to pump hazardous materials in the form of diluted bitumen (dilbit) across
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