Agnes Attakai TUCSON, Ariz. – Even though Agnes Attakai is a longtime Indian health administrator, she had no way of knowing that her Diné family members would become a textbook illustration of Native America’s disadvantages in facing the Covid-19 pandemic. Then she was forced to say goodbye
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem RAPID CITY – Gov. Kristi Noem has been making national headlines after a judge she appointed in 2019, Circuit judge Christina Klinger, struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment that would have legalized marijuana for recreational use. The challenge to Amendment A came officially from Pennington
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Barry LeBeau HILL CITY – The Black Hills Film Festival opens its curtains on a 12th annual season Feb. 18-25 with a tribute to Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member, performer, and festival mainstay Barry LeBeau, as well as a
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REDWOOD COUNTY, MINN – The Lower Sioux Community received possession of some of their ancestral lands last week. The lands were given back to the community by the Minnesota Historical Society. Part of the lands that were given back is the site which the Dakota War of 1862 began after
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South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre PIERRE – The 96th legislative session of South Dakota is well underway and some of its work has made headlines statewide and nationally. SB68, which was proposed by Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Troy Heinert, failed to pass. The proposal would have allowed the
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RAPID CITY— Focusing on just two events canceled at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in 2020, there is a huge loss to the Rapid City economy. According to data supplied courtesy of Visit Rapid City, the cancellation of the Black Hills Powwow (BHPW) and the Lakota Nation Invitational (LNI), both
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Jeffrey Henderson, M.D. RAPID CITY – Jeffrey Henderson, M.D., a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and founder of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health, decided this last summer that he was going to do whatever he could to mitigate the effect of the COVID-19
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Former Navajo Nation President, Albert Hale. WASHINGTON – The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) offered the following statement from NIHB Chairman William Smith on the loss of former Navajo Nation President Albert Hale. “On behalf of the National Indian Health Board, my heart and prayers go out to Albert Hale,
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After hearing victim’s family account, California State’s governor reversed early parole for Rodney Patrick McNeal, convicted of killing his pictured late Oglala Lakota wife Debra Black Crow.Credit / Collage by Darren Thompson, photos courtesy of Shantel Haynes SACRAMENTO, California — The South Dakota Legislature’s Tribal Relations Committee and elected tribal
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Pipeline resistance unites Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island, as illustrated by this gathering in Backus, Minn, near the Enbridge Line 3 construction route.COURTESY / By Keri Pickett WASHINGTON, D.C. – The “Zombie Pipeline,” as Native and allied opponents call the Keystone XL, almost rose from the dead for the
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