Dom Clucas: Barbershop success story

Dom Clucas (right) giving a signature cut at Black Hills Barbershop. (Photo courtesy Dom Clucas) RAPID CITY— In a world of nothing but bald men, Dom Clucas might have chosen the wrong profession. Being the best barber, maybe in all of West River, wouldn’t count for much then. But most

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 30, 2019

Native rights advocates quash pipeline Riot Boosting Act

Crowd outside Federal Judge Lawrence L. Piersol’s courtroom in Rapid City rallied peacefully in June at his hearing to determine if South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s 2019 legislation violates the First Amendment guarantees of oil pipeline resisters. (Photo COURTESY / Andy Johnson) RAPID CITY – Native and other grassroots pipeline

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‘Were you there?’

The meme in this photo was taken from the video produced during an incident last week in which a police officer is seen using violent physical actions to break up a fight. The students were in middle school. ideo Credit: FACEBOOK/Natalie Stites Means RAPID CITY – Reaction to the videos

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Veterans to walk across Pine Ridge Reservation

Zuya Akicita Color Guard L-R: William Takes Him First, Shawnee Red Bear, Sid Reddest, Al Loafer, Kim Conroy, Cornell Reddest, Rodney Bad Hand. (Photo Courtesy: Shawnee Red Bear) PINE RIDGE – Beginning on the day after Veteran’s Day this year, a group of veterans and their supporters will walk across

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 23, 2019

IHS history makes doctors like Weber inevitable

Dr. Stanley Weber, of Spearfish, South Dakota, arrives at the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Rapid City, South Dakota on Wednesday morning, Nov. 1, 2017. Weber was present for a hearing in relation to the allegations he is facing involving sexual abuse of minors. The

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Buffalo Field Campaign files suit against Interior

Laurie Blessing, of Whitefish, stands with a sign outside the Wilma Theater near the Higgins Avenue bridge in 2018 with a group of supporters for a rally held by the Buffalo Field Campaign. The group has filed two lawsuits in seeking to have FOIA requests fulfilled. CHELSEA CULP, Missoulian MISSOULA,

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Shared by Native Sun News Today October 16, 2019

Harold Frazier to run for President of NCAI

EAGLE BUTTE — Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold C. Frazier has decided to run for president of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). Frazier released a statement on Friday saying he accepted the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association’s request to run for the presidency of NCAI. Frazier says

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