Rushmore Mall – Site of future art gallery. John Johnson’s plan to open a museum in the Rushmore Mall to showcase Medal of Honor recipients has been shelved. He has decided to open an art gallery in the future to highlight local Native American artwork. Credit: Richie Richards RAPID CITY
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Shaunta Roubideaux, Misty Hernandez, and Carla Cheyenne are organizing the first-ever Prayer Walk for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Men and Boys in Rapid City on June 16, 2019 – Father’s Day. RAPID CITY – As part of the larger movement to find and identify those responsible for murdered and missing
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A map prepared for the Native Sun News Today shows the proposed route of the KXL Pipeline and man-camp location in Harding County, as well as the proximity of abandoned uranium mines and sacred sites in the North Cave Hills of the Custer Gallatin National Forest. PART III CAMP CROOK
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The longtime business leader and friend to man passed away on Friday, May 31, 2019. RAPID CITY – Prairie Edge has been a long time staple of downtown Rapid City and its owner, Ray Hillenbrand has made his journey this past Friday at the age of 84. Known for
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Signing return of Indian cornfield on KXL Pipeline route were (front row, from left) Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Chairman Larry Wright, Jr., Ponca Nation of Oklahoma Councilwoman Casey Camp-Horinek, and Nebraska farmers Helen and Art Tanderup.COURTESY / Alex Matzke, Bold Nebraska NELIGH, Nebraska — The Sixth Annual Sacred Ponca Corn
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RAPID CITY— On the morning of June 9, 1972, the people of Rapid City awoke to an azure blue sky, a picture perfect Spring morning, birds were singing, children were playing, the sweet scent of Black Hills ponderosa pine drifted right down into the heart of downtown Rapid City. It
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RAPID CITY – Speaking here on national Endangered Species Day, a Kyle biology teacher said the oil industry’s thrust to remove federal protection from the American burying beetle promotes hazardous pipeline construction and habitat destruction on the Great Plains. Dan Snethen, former Science Department chair at Little Wound High School,
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FLANDREAU— A few weeks back the Flandreau Sioux Tribe filed suit against Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. Last week the Tribe lost an emergency motion for a preliminary injunction against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA had refused to sign off on the Tribe’s hemp growing operation,
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Onna LeBeau is the Executive Director of Black Hills Community Loan Fund located in downtown Rapid City. She has been helping Native and non-Native Americans with financial literacy and getting their credit scores up to secure home and business loans for the past four years.Credit: Richie Richards RAPID CITY –
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RAPID CITY— Keeping things simple when it comes to convoluted issues, like the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Health Board (GPTCHB) 638 contract takeover of the Rapid City Indian Hospital (Sioux San), is not easy. Understandable fears, hostile communication, and escalating mistrust between the community and the GPTCHB, have worsened the
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