Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom at his criminal trial at Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 22, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP) Besides promising federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, Trump’s campaign has not established a solid
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In 2018, Isabella Aiukli Cornell (Choctaw) used her prom dress to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Red represents the movement to end this crisis. The dress designer, Della BigHair-Stump (Crow), included a cultural diamond pattern on the top, representing the diamondback rattlesnake. The Choctaw Nation
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Musk oxen in the snow, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service BLACK HILLS – A Trump Administration means prosperity for the energy industry. Capitalists have been poised to reap the benefits of an upcoming boom fortified by even fewer regulations. The implications for the mineral-rich
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FREE ‘Rethinking Thanksgiving’ webinar offered SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Catalyst Project invites any and all to join their annual “Rethinking Thanksgiving” webinar, this year titled “Dismantling Colonial Myths, Uplifting Indigenous Rights and Honoring Mother Earth.” The webinar is offered virtually at no cost on Sunday, November 17, 2024, starting
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MSU launches health project for Northern Cheyenne students LAME DEER, Mont. – Recently, Madeline “Maddy” Metcalf, from the College of Nursing, Montana State University, Bozeman met with a group of Northern Cheyenne grandmothers in a consultation process to explain the purpose of a new oral/general health program developed by MSU
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2022 Inaugeration Ceremony for newly elected Oglala SiouxTribal President Frank Star Comes Out with members of the Tokala Kit-Fox Society. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) PINE RIDGE – The Oglala Sioux Tribe concluded its 2024 General Election on November 5th, with a decisive victory for Frank Star Comes Out in
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Northern Cheyenne Shooting/ Lockdown Update LAME DEER, Mont. – Last week, Native Sun News Today (NSNT) carried a story about a law and order disaster which occurred during the third week of October in Lame Deer. At that printing, many facts about the “drive-by” shooting homicide were unclear. Since then,
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2024 Election Report from a Northern Cheyenne View LAME DEER, Mont. – Many folks are reeling from the National general election results: Trump as President reincarnate; the nation turned “red,” Administration and Congress under Republican control? It does not forebode well for Native Americans during the next four years. At
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Rapid City Mayor Salamun speaking at impromptu press conference. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Volunteers who have regularly offered free meals to the homeless and houseless every Friday at the bandshell in Rapid City for 6 years showed up last Friday to find a fence had been erected
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Remains of relative Lloyd Bald Eagle identified CRST Tribal member Lloyd Bald Eagle (62) of Red Scaffold, went missing from Rapid City on November 1, 2022. After media coverage and searches in May 2023, it was announced last week that his remains have been identified. Bald Eagle is the brother
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