PIERRE – South Dakota has proclaimed September both Suicide Prevention Month and Recovery Month. Hope, health, and healing are available to residents dealing with crisis situations, whether related to mental health, substance use disorders or both through the state Department of Social Services (DSS). “Suicide is preventable, and recovery is
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California Assembly Member James C. Ramos SACRAMENTO – It was less than two hours before midnight Pacific Time on Sunday when the California Senate approved a bill—known as AB 275—that would allow more of the state’s tribes to recover their ancestors’ remains and artifacts. The bill, which now heads to
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PINE RIDGE – On Aug. 31, Oglala Sioux Tribal Acting President Thomas Poor Bear sent an official letter to the federal Bureau of Land Management requesting it take into account overlooked treaty rights before issuing a decision on a proposal to open up Wyoming oil-and-gas fracking. The origin history of
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Julian Bear Runner PINE RIDGE RESERVATION — There appears to be a lot of movement leading up to the September 14 impeachment hearing of Julian Bear Runner, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. A second complaint has entered the Oglala Sioux Tribe council after a complaint against president Julian Bear
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LAME DEER, MONT. – Two massive fires located on and near the Northern Cheyenne Reservations are rampaging across southeastern Montana. As of Friday, September 4, 2010 the Rice and Snider Fires north of Ashland, Montana (perimeter of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation) had burned nearly 44,000 acres with zero percent containment.
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RAPID CITY – South Dakota has recently reported 15,400 total positive cases of COVID-19 statewide with around 2,500 of them being currently active. Pennington County makes up 1,600 of those cases and is only second to Minnehaha County that has over 5,600 cases. Oglala Lakota County nears 200 positive cases.
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Dakota Middle Tents grandfather – smudges in Norway during the 1990’s. RAPID CITY – Dakota Middle Tent’s family was relieved when they saw him in the emergency room at Monument Health with only a few broken bones. On Aug. 16 he had fallen over 100 feet from the top of
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“People have a right to know that an illegal operation in underway on indigenous land yet again,” said participant Joseph White Eyes. COURTESY / CRGC BRIDGER – Members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media, and other concerned citizens organized a “Pow Wow at the Pipeyard” near the gates
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Charles Abourezk RAPID CITY – Rapid City attorney Charles Abourezk has joined the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (GPTCHB) as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and General Counsel according to a news release on the Health Board’s website. GPTCHB’s news release says that they have “made a powerful
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Chairman Harold Frazier leads Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe riders who arrived at Ft. Laramie in Wyoming in April 2018 for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty. Photo by Richie Richards LARAMIE, Wyo. – The 2020 Oceti Sakowin Gathering of treaty nations and councils here
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