EAGLE BUTTE — Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold C. Frazier has declared that a state of emergency still exists on the Cheyenne River reservation. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has closed several BIA routes and declared all BIA roads with culverts to be in critical condition. Recent winter, spring
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SIOUX FALLS – South Dakota’s lone Congressman Dusty Johnson voted not to condemn President Trump’s tweets as racist in a vote on Tuesday. Trump tweeted some controversial racist comments about democratic lawmakers who are women of color. Trump said, “…Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken
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Photo credit: Sergio Flores for the Washington PostVia Getty Images RAPID CITY— Many have questioned the legitimate indigenous status of people struggling to gain access to the United States at our southern border. Regardless of which country or region from which these people are fleeing, from Tierra Del Fuego to
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The Oglala Sioux Lakota Nursing Home will open a new 12 bed memory wing in January of 2020.(Photo by James Giago Davies) WHITE CLAY— In January of 2020 the Oglala Sioux Tribe Nursing Home located in White Clay, Nebraska, will open a new 12-bed memory wing. This will bring the
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Self-proclaimed water protectors beef up facilities at Sacred Stone Camp in the autumn of 2016.CreditPhoto by Talli Nauman BISMARCK, N. D. – The state filed a lawsuit here against the U.S. government on July 18, trying to recoup the $38 million incurred as a result of former Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and U.S. Reps. Tom O’Halleran (D-Ariz.), Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) today introduced the Repealing Existing Substandard Provisions Encouraging Conciliation with Tribes Act. Their legislation would repeal several outdated federal laws that are discriminatory against Native Americans, including laws that
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Photo Courtesy Karla R. Larvie The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary continues Founder’s dream and announces its 31st summer season of guided tours to see the wild horse herds. Founded in 1988 by the late Dayton O. Hyde, the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary is one of America’s greatest private wilderness
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Roxanne Sazue former Chairwoman of the Crow Creek SIoux Tribe.Photo Courtesty SD Tribal Relations FORT THOMPSON – Roxanne Sazue spoke at Tribal Relations Day at the state Capitol in the Rotunda in February 2015 while she was chairwoman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe’s council. Sazue was arrested Thursday, July
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She’s used to taking on powerful men – and now retired marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath is running to unseat Mitch McConnell.Photo Courtesy Brut Media Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a challenger in his upcoming 2020 re-election campaign. Retired Army fighter pilot Amy McGrath officially unveiled her campaign on
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PINE RIDGE — On Monday, July 8, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council passed a same-sex marriage ordinance in a 12 to three vote, with one abstention. With the ordinance’s passage, the Ogala Sioux Tribe (OST) became first in South Dakota to legalize same-sex marriage. Two days later, the Oglala Sioux
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