From L. to R. Michael Cross, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Ryman LeBeau, Oglala Lakota Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out, speaking on the steps of the Andrew Bogue Federal Building in Rapid City, SD. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – On Monday, a federal judge ordered an immediate
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Kamisha Nyvold. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Kamisha was a toddler from Sisseton, South Dakota, who was violently murdered in 1992. The perpetrator, Jay Adams Jr admitted to inflicting blunt force trauma, failed to seek medical attention for her injuries, and pretended to know nothing of the cause
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Together Overcoming Diabetes, a type 2 diabetes study is now recruiting American Indian/Alaska Native families in the Mní Luzáhan (Rapid City) area. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? Family groups, consisting of one adult with a confirmed diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and one youth aged 10-25 who live in Rapid City.
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LBH Superintendent James Novitsky; Ernest Littlemouth, N. Cheyenne Vice-President, NPS Historical Interpreter and Clara Caufield review Cheyenne display materials. (COURTESY of Northern Cheyenne Tribe) LAMEDEER – The Cheyenne called Custer “Yellow Hair,” and the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 “Where Yellow Hair Got Wiped Out.” This year
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Several treaty defenders pose near Pe’ Sla in the Black Hills where roughly one dozen community members gathered in opposition to exploratory graphite drilling. Credit: Courtesy Angel White Eyes, NDN Collective RAPID CITY – Roughly a dozen Indigenous treaty defenders gathered near Pe’ Sla, a sacred site in the Black
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Strengthening the Spirit Conference attendees. Photo by Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – Oaye Luta Okolakiciye hosted the Fifth Annual Strengthening the Spirit Conference at The Box Elder Even Center April 21-23, 2026. The program specializes in culturally grounded recovery and just this month received a ten-thousand dollar South Dakota Community
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Peter Lengkeek, Waná.ca Nú.pa. (Two Arrows), Chairman of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe FORT THOMPSON — Peter Lengkeek, Waná.ca Nú.pa. (Two Arrows) has secured another two-year term as chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, extending a tenure that has reshaped the tribe’s role in regional and national Native governance. Lengkeek
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By the time the last buffalo hunt was recorded, the prairie had settled into a quiet that felt emptied of the life that once moved through it. The great buffalo herds that once thundered across the Plains, rolling like dark rivers over the grass, had thinned to scattered shadows.
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Grand entry at the 41st annual Lakota Omniciye Wacipi. (Photos by Marnie Cook.) SPEARFISH – Black Hills State University in Spearfish hosted the 41st annual Lakota Omniciye Wacipi at the Donald E. Young Center on Saturday. Dancers, vendors, visitors, and locals came together to celebrate with competitive and exhibition dancing,
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RAPID CITY – Today, at the start of Earth Week, NDN Collective announced the launch of the LANDBACK Action Network (LAN) – a growing network of Indigenous people, organizations, grassroots groups, Tribal Nations, multiracial movement organizations, community members, organizers and accomplices working together to strengthen the LANDBACK movement and
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