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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October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). Throughout October, the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and STTARS Indigenous Safe Housing Center (STTARS) will host webinars and panels, provide social media toolkits, and participate in various awareness days in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). DVAM offers advocates
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Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garret Renville, center, stands with tribal archivist Tamara St. John, left, and Historic Preservation Officer Dianne Desrosiers after Renville signed an agreement Sept. 13, 2023, with the U.S. Army that for the first time allows ceremony in the Army’s repatriation process for ancestral remains from
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