‘The Courage to Bloom’ design was “influenced by the Apache and Crow cultural landscapes, from the Crazy Mountain Range in the Northern Rockies of Montana to the Salt River Canyon,” Anderson says. DENVER — The American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills, the international lifestyle brand headquartered in Portland,
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Eco Prayer Park RAPID CITY — The West Dakota Water Development District and a group of Rapid City area businesses are funding upgrades recommended by a team of South Dakota Mines students at the Trinity Eco Prayer Park in downtown Rapid City. The upgrades will increase the water flow capacity
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Vore Buffalo JumpCOURTESY / Jaqueline Wyatt Part 1 The memories and oral history knowledge of John Stands In Timber, Northern Cheyenne tribal historian and elder were captured in Cheyenne Memories, Margot Liberty, 1972. These memories painstakingly collected over the years are considered highly accurate. One of the memories came from
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TaSina Sapa Win holds her son as she stands against oil pipeline construction in Native treaty territory with other members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective during their intervention at a coalition occupation of the Democratic National Committee headquarters intended to make sure President-elect Joe Biden keeps campaign promises for
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During EPA hearings in Hot Springs on Oct. 5, 2019, Misty Plenty Wolf was one of the 100 people who spoke against allowing Azarga Uranium Corp. to sink water wells in the Black Hills.COURTESY PHOTO PINE RIDGE – The EPA broke two federal laws on Nov. 24 by permitting underground
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Despite pandemic health issues over the summer, MIGIZI students were able to attend classes, like this HVAC course offered by the Minneapolis Community & Technical College, but another recent upsurge of coronavirus has pushed all programming online.COURTESY/MIGIZI MINNEAPOLIS – Only eight months after the grand opening of their recently renovated
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Yamni Jack battling COVID at Pine Ridge IHS When COVID-19 first entered the national consciousness, Yamni Jack was transitioning from his long time role at Lower Brule High School to his new job as Activities Director at Lakota Tech. He had no idea the profound impact the virus would have
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Governor Kristi Noem SIOUX FALLS — South Dakota’s Governor is sure making a name for herself and for South Dakota in a bad way – for her malfeasant response in doing nothing as South Dakota now leads the world in the death rate from COVID-19. According to USA Today,
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EAGLE BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe had 218 active cases of the novel coronavirus on its north-central South Dakota reservation. Tribal government, quickly identifying the virus’s exponential growth and severe threat to public health, activated “Level 5” of its Covid-19 response plan. The nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project
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BROOKINGS – The statewide South Dakota Humanities Council has awarded more than $400,000 to cultural organizations struggling to maintain operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The CARES grants, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by SDHC, provided unrestricted operating support, humanities program support, or both to qualifying
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