Rockets fired by the 1-147th Field Artillery of the South Dakota Army National Guard head towards thier targets at the Northern Impact Area at Fort McCoy, Wis. 25 June, 2017. The 1-147th Field Artillery used the M270A1 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems as part of thier annual training at Fort McCoy.
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KYLE – On July 30, in Kyle, Cougar Fund Executive Director Penny Maldonado will share her love of mountain lions and knowledge of their positive role on the land. She will discuss mountain lions’ natural history and behaviors. She looks forward to hearing about community members’ experiences with mountain lions,
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CINCINNATI — A Native American author whose writings have highlighted his indigenous culture is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials selected novelist, poet and essayist N. Scott Momaday for the Richard C. Holbrooke
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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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