Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources map shows reported spills remediated and still under remediation in a 7.5 mile circumference of Wharf Gold Mine near Lead, South Dakota in the northern Black Hills. Photo credit/ Courtesy of SD DANR’s interactive tool Part one of a four part series. RAPID
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LAME DEER, Mont. – Many people on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, breathed a collective sigh of relief on December 13 when former Pastor, Dean Smith, First Baptist Church in Lame Deer was found guilty in federal court of sexually abusing several young Cheyenne girls who were in his care. The
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced a $27 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to protect Tribal communities by repairing and upgrading clean water systems and replacing failing dams. The President’s Investing in America agenda – a key pillar of Bidenomics – is deploying record
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Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of Interior. Teachings about a Messiah that will come to save mankind from inevitable self-destruction and destruction of Ina
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Carlee Schreiner, title is healing. The artist said the woman in this painting represent the jingle dress, which is also a healing dress to the Ojibwe. RAPID CITY – The Lakota Nation Invitational Art show is among the various competitions at the annual Lakota Nation Invitational. LNI Art Show coordinator
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Part 1 of 2 Husasa (Red Legs) became one of the first Sioux Chiefs to convert to Christianity. He took the English name of Thomas Whipple after a Bishop Whipple. On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Sioux were hanged by the U.S. military in Mankato, MN for their role in
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Students listened as Landon Schmeichel, an Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher at Legacy High School in Bismarck, N.D, taught a lesson about the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how it led to the genocide of some 6,000 Cherokee during the forced Trail of Tears march. Despite the passing of
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Doris Jean (Brewer) Giago, 78 January 23, 1945 ~September 20, 2023 BROOKINGS – Doris Jean (Brewer) Giago “Chewicakiya Pi Win”, made her journey to the Spirit World on September 20, 2023 at the Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Doris was born on January 23, 1945 in Pine Ridge,
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This baby bonnet was taken following the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and given to a Scottish museum. Alan Broadfoot/Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections A war necklace made of deer hooves is one of the artifacts a Native American group hopes to see returned. Alan Broadfoot/Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections More
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CEO of Crazy Horse Monument Whitney Rencountre, BHPA Vice-President Dew Bad Warrior-Ganji, BHPA President Stephan Yellowhawk, Frank Night Pipe, RC Mayor Jason Salamun and BHPA Board Member Sandor Iron Rope at Prairie Edge. (Photo by Christopher Pina) RAPID CITY –It was 1986, along the banks of Mni Luzahan,
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