NDN Collective hosted the inaugeral Indigenous People’s Day in downtown Rapid City. Supporters march from Memorial Park to Main Street carrying a banner displaying NDN Collective’s mantra, “Landback.” RAPID CITY—“We Are Still Here,” “Landback” and “Free Leonard Peltier.” These were some of the sayings on signs and banners that could
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Phil Baird March 12, 1955-September 25, 2023 Hearts are heavy at United Tribes Technical College with the passing of Phil Baird, who spent a major share of his professional life on the UTTC campus. Phil came from South Dakota in 1985, as he said, “with my clothes in the back
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Members of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate in the Indian Cemetery at the former site of the Carlisle Indian Inductrial School late in the evening of Sept 17, 2023. (Photo By Charles Fox ICT) Amos La Framboise and Edward Upright of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate were disinterred by tribal representatives
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CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL – On Sunday October 1, was the 11th Fall Volksmarch, a bi-annual hike up Crazy Horse Memorial organized by the Black Hills Chapter of the American Volkssport Association (AVA) and hosted by Crazy Horse Memorial®. This event hosts thousands of hikers from all over the world who
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A buffalo hide painting depicting life at an Indian boarding school will be on display at Tusweca Gallery as part of the “Remembering the Children” exhibit. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID City – An exhibit that memorializes children whose spirits were almost lost to time, opened
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Observed by Northern Cheyenne and Scott City SCOTT CITY, KANSAS – One hundred and forty-five years ago, on September 27, 1878, a group of Northern Cheyenne were fleeing from the U.S. Military, intent upon returning from Oklahoma to Montana. It was a heroic journey under the leadership of Chiefs Little
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Doris Jean (Brewer) Giago, 78 January 23, 1945 ~September 20, 2023 BROOKINGS – Doris Jean (Brewer) Giago “Chewicakiya Pi Win”, made her journey to the Spirit World on September 20, 2023 at the Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD. Doris was born on January 23, 1945 in Pine Ridge,
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This baby bonnet was taken following the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre and given to a Scottish museum. Alan Broadfoot/Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections A war necklace made of deer hooves is one of the artifacts a Native American group hopes to see returned. Alan Broadfoot/Glasgow Museums and Libraries Collections More
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CEO of Crazy Horse Monument Whitney Rencountre, BHPA Vice-President Dew Bad Warrior-Ganji, BHPA President Stephan Yellowhawk, Frank Night Pipe, RC Mayor Jason Salamun and BHPA Board Member Sandor Iron Rope at Prairie Edge. (Photo by Christopher Pina) RAPID CITY –It was 1986, along the banks of Mni Luzahan,
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Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garret Renville, center, stands with tribal archivist Tamara St. John, left, and Historic Preservation Officer Dianne Desrosiers after Renville signed an agreement Sept. 13, 2023, with the U.S. Army that for the first time allows ceremony in the Army’s repatriation process for ancestral remains from
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