Cheyenne River spring fishing tournament starts 3/20

Cheyenne River spring fishing tournament starts 3/20 EAGLE BUTTE, SD – The 2025 Cheyenne River spring fishing tournament starts at sunup on Thursday, March 20, and continues through sundown on Thursday, June 19, according to information provided by Jacob, Duane, and Davey West, tournament officials and founders. “The goal of

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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 28, 2025

Art Zimiga’s five decades of mentorship

Art Zimiga. Photo courtesy of Facebook. RAPID CITY – Every year we lose a handful of important Lakota elders, they take their wisdom and their history, and their stories to the spirit world, and few of them are able to record and share even a fraction of it. Most Lakota

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Lady Warriors take Class B title by storm

Thomiah Poor Bear displays the 2025 Class B championship plaque, after the Bennett County Lady Warriors defeated Sanborn Central/Woonsocket, 71-61 for the state B title. (Photo courtesy SDPB) Thomiah Poor Bear displays the 2025 Class B championship plaque, after the Bennett County Lady Warriors defeated Sanborn Central/Woonsocket, 71-61 for the

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Colorectal cancer frequent Indian killer

Central California coastline. Photo by A. Keuthan Colorectal cancer, sometimes shortened to colon cancer, is the second leading cause of death for American Indian women and the third leading cause of death for American Indian men. Many native readers personally know someone who has perished from this disease because it

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Honoring Lakota women’s history

L to R: Denise One Star, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Chas Jewett, Marcella Gilbert at Sinte Gleska University where Thunder Hawk was honored for her lifetime of activism on behalf of Native Americans. (Photo courtesy of Marcella Gilbert) MISSION SD – March is National Women’s History Month. For Lakota relatives, any

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OST opposes CNN FOIA request

A quote from the U.S. Court of Claims decision in the Sioux Nation’s Black Hills land claim case appears on a sign on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. (Photo: Hamner_Fotos) PINE RIDGE—In July 1980, $102 million was awarded to the treaty signatory tribes impacted by the 1877 taking of the Black

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Wakiyan Agipi at Wakiyan Paha

Wakiyan Aglipi, the Return of the Thunder Beings ceremony will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the location of the Wakiyan Paha (Thunder Butte). (Photo Courtesy of Lakota Times) EAGLE BUTTE – On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Cheyenne River Lakota relatives will begin the ceremonial season with hosting Wakiyan Aglipi, the

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