Sen. Helene Duhamel, R-Rapid City. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Sen. John Wiik, R-Big Stone City. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Move to loosen penalties for drug ingestion, marijuana edibles fails in Senate Felony punishments fail to help addicts or community, sponsor argues BY: JOHN HULT – FEBRUARY 22, 2023 6:25 PM The South Dakota
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Members of the American Legion march in the Veteran’s Day Parade in downtown Rapid City, Friday, November 11, 2022. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa) The post Veteran’s Day Parade first appeared on Native Sun News Today. Visit Original Source
SIOUX FALLS– More than 550 professionals in the child advocacy field attended the 22nd annual Community Response to Child Abuse Conference, held October 6-7 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. The conference provided professional training and educational opportunities for teachers, medical professionals, dentists, law enforcement, social workers, mental health
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Memorial Pond RAPID CITY—On a day that was busy due to a local concert, a murder occurred in Rapid Citi which left a lot of unanswered questions. Sheldon Glenn, 43, Rapid City, was found drowned in the Rapid City memorial pond, and Walter Mousseau Jr, 27, Pine Ridge, was charged
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Scotti Clifford (right) and his band The Spirits Cry. On bass guitar is Welby and on the drums is Wakpe. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Was te’) RAPID CITY—Nearly 50 established and emerging Great Plains Native visual and preforming artists gathered at Main Street Square on July 9
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Black Elk Peak (Photo courtesy Fine Art America) PINE RIDGE RESERVATION— No issue matters more to the Lakota than the return of the Black Hills. On every spiritual and historical level, the Black Hills represent the core of Lakota identity and meaning in this modern world. But fifty years
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ANTELOPE LAKE – Sinte Gleska University hosted the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen during her recent visit to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Marilyn Malerba , lifetime chief of the Mohegan Tribe photo courtesy Manchestercc.edu On Tuesday, June 21st, Yellen and the new U.S.
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San Juan County, UT: This rock art faces the San Juan River, in the general area of the River House ruins (accessible by rafting the river, by Jeep or ATV). Photo by Sonya Doctorian. May 1, 2015 WHITE MESA, UT —At a signing ceremony on Saturday, the Bureau of Land
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MIT to host indigenous and antiracist innovators summit CAMBRIDGE, MA –Solve is set to host their Indigenous and Antiracist Innovators Summit in an engaging two-day, in-person event held June 16 – 17 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a mission
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BankWest provides remote financial literacy learning resources to local schools BankWest stepped up to make partial or full remote learning easier. Thanks to their sponsorship, over 2,640 students and teachers at 14 schools in South Dakota have free access to Banzai. Banzai is an award-winning online financial literacy
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