Telling Natives to go back to where they came from

Terray Sylvester / Reuters Dakota Access Pipeline protesters square off against police near the Standing Rock Reservation and the pipeline route outside the little town of Saint Anthony, North Dakota on Oct. 5, 2016.   Jonathan Klett, Liminal Films Rattler, legal name Michael Markus, is a 46-year-old Marine veteran who

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Remembering the legendary Dave Strain

Dave Strain RAPID CITY – Dave Strain, aged 88, passed away in Rapid City on Thursday, January 2nd. Strain was long-time and successful head coach of the Central Cobbler’s boy’s basketball team, a South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame inductee, and, prominently, an advocate for Native American basketball and players.

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Native American Hip Hop artist Supaman to perform

Supaman, Christian Takes Gun Parrish, of the Apsaalooke Nation will perform at the Matthews Opera House in Deadwood, Friday January 17. SPEARFISH – Montana based Native American Hip Hop Artist Supaman performing at the Matthews Opera House on Friday, January 17 as part of the current Subscription Series season. The

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LNI Education Conference

RAPID CITY – John Forkenbrock, a nationally recognized scholar of federally funded education, gave a talk on December 19 at the 41st Lakota Nation Education Conference. The conference took place from December 16 – 19, 2019 at the Ramkota convention center and Forkenbroch’s talk was about the history of funding

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Weaver of musical stories

The cover photo of “Bibigwan: The Flute” is reproduced from a wet plate ambrotype photograph made by Shane Balkowitsch, using a revived technique Edward S. Curtis employed to document 19th Century American Indian life. Photo COURTESY / Darren Thompson RAPID CITY — Flautist Darren Thompson’s Ojibway and Tohono O’odham roots

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Congress approves Little Shell Tribe recognition

In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, Gerald Gray, chairman of Montana’s Little Shell Band of Chippewa Indians, poses at the advertising agency where he works in Billings, Mont. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019 approved a measure under which the federal government would formally recognize the

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Mallard’s Road runner-up in film festival

Mallard’s Road stars Wicahpi Bison and Albert Two Bears III. LOS ANGELES — The 13th LA Skinsfest received over 600 films and of all those films submitted for judging, from 5 minutes in length to feature length. A locally produced film, “Mallard’s Road” was chosen and premiered November 24th at

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Lakota Treaty Council to meet in Rapid City

RAPID CITY — The Treaty Council’s, Tribal Councils and Traditional Lakota Leaders are gathering in the Sacred He Sapa on December 17, 18 and 19, 2019 to attend the Company Name Conference Company Name being held at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn in Rapid City, SD. “We have about 80

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Can the Lakota Oyate forgive?

Brad Upton shakes hands with Melvin Garreau after Garreau’s speech Thursday evening at the Veterans Center in Eagle Butte. Upton is the fifth great-grandson of General James W. Forsyth, who led the U.S. Calvary during the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890. His visit was highly-controversial and conflicted many across Cheyenne

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