Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone, a Native American actress with her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. (courtesy photo) By Marnie Cook Native Sun News Today Assistant Editor Sometimes, it’s hard to see change. It can feel like every step is a slog, two steps forward and three steps
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A replica of a Forest Service sign in the parade float bears the words from the U.S. Supreme Court opinion about the theft of Black Hills treaty lands on July 22, 2023. Photo Courtesy/Black Hills Clean Water Alliance RAPID CITY – Conservation biologists consider the Black Hills a “sky island.”
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BISMARCK, ND – Each day an estimated 10-15 people risk their lives when they walk or bike across town on the main highway route on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. At least six people have died in the past 15 years. An unknown number of others have been injured on the
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LAME DEER, MT – A portion of the Montana Highway 212 Corridor, running from Crow Agency to Alzada, often called the “deadliest” state road has finally got the attention of key officials. A new Highway 212 Safety Task Force, funded by federal and state money has been established and held
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Rose Cordier-Beauvais, 70, visits the gravesite of her grandson, Honor Beauvais, at St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery in Mission, S.D. Honor was 12 when he died during winter storms that pounded the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in December 2022. (Photo: Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch) Part one of a two
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Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources map shows reported spills remediated and still under remediation in a 7.5 mile circumference of Wharf Gold Mine near Lead, South Dakota in the northern Black Hills. Photo credit/ Courtesy of SD DANR’s interactive tool Part one of a four part series. RAPID
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LAME DEER, Mont. – Many people on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, breathed a collective sigh of relief on December 13 when former Pastor, Dean Smith, First Baptist Church in Lame Deer was found guilty in federal court of sexually abusing several young Cheyenne girls who were in his care. The
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Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of Interior. Teachings about a Messiah that will come to save mankind from inevitable self-destruction and destruction of Ina
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Carlee Schreiner, title is healing. The artist said the woman in this painting represent the jingle dress, which is also a healing dress to the Ojibwe. RAPID CITY – The Lakota Nation Invitational Art show is among the various competitions at the annual Lakota Nation Invitational. LNI Art Show coordinator
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Part 1 of 2 Husasa (Red Legs) became one of the first Sioux Chiefs to convert to Christianity. He took the English name of Thomas Whipple after a Bishop Whipple. On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Sioux were hanged by the U.S. military in Mankato, MN for their role in
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