Connie Hopkins and her four grandchildren have been displaced from their house in Lakota Homes in North Rapid City, following a fire in early August, 2019. (Photo courtesy Connie Hopkins) RAPID CITY – A grandmother has been evicted from her house after nearly four years of living in Lakota Homes;
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For the first time in the 70-year history of the power company, Sicangu Oyate members, pictured at the 2019 standing-room-only election meeting, gained the majority of seats on the board of directors. Credit COURTESY / Rosebud Cordier VALENTINE, Nebraska – Sept. 14, 2019 marked the first time that tribal members
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Deb Haaland and Elizabeth Warren. Photo courtesy Indianz.com RAPID CITY— In December, 2018, the United States Commission on Civil Rights released a 300-plus page report entitled “Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans.” Broken Promises was a comprehensive study that began with explaining the Federal Trust Relationship, and
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Delegations of the Rosebud Sioux (left), Ft. Belknap Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes pose at Great Falls U.S. District Missouri River Courthouse where federal Judge Brian Morris is in charge of their lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump for permitting the proposed KXL construction across unceded 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty
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There are some things that trip my wire faster than anything and if I come across as slightly perturbed it is because I am. Over the past few weeks the talk from the Catholic Church has been about the canonization of Black Elk. I suppose that is fine and dandy.
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RAPID CITY— Think back to when you were fourteen years old. We all have common experiences. Like being asked up on stage to replace the singer who has a sore throat, and singing a couple of Beatles songs so well the band asks you to join the band. Okay, so
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HOT SPRINGS – After tribal members and other residents roundly rejected the U.S. EPA’s proposed draft permits to provide Black Hills water to a foreign uranium mine project promoter, the agency has revised the wording for a new comment period, it announced Aug. 26. Members of the public will have
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PIERRE – Like many indigenous nations in the United States, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has been losing children to the state for generations. Captain Joseph Brings Plenty of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement has been with the department for several years and has witnessed the removal of
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RAPID CITY – The Western Mining Action Network is circulating a call that asks for help from tribal members and clean energy advocates to delay EPA water permit hearings over the proposed Dewey-Burdock Project, which aims to leach radioactive uranium from aquifers in the unceded treaty territory of the Black
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RAPID CITY— Every tribe has one treasure it must protect from plunder, a treasure that dwarves all other treasures combined— tribal sovereignty. People often wonder why sovereignty is so important— what sovereignty actually matters when the federal government can apply plenary power and run roughshod over it, whenever they are
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