Bob Barker/Adam Sandler iconic fight scene from Happy Gilmore. Photo courtesy ew.com RAPID CITY—Every August hundreds of thousands of non-tribal bikers descend upon the Black Hills all looking to be part of something larger than themselves, all looking to be a part of the Sturgis Rally Biker Tribe. Membership is
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Brothers Wakiyan LaPoint, and Thorne LaPoint, Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud were the hosts of the Mni Ki Wakan summit. (Photo by Christopher Pina) RAPID CITY – On August 15-17, organizers of the Mni Ki Wakan Water Summit brought together water protectors from the four corners of Ina Maka (Mother Earth)
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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear, online publisher of Buffalo’s Fire, addresses about 400 Canadian and U.S. journalists on Aug. 12 during her acceptance speech of the inaugural Tim Giago Free Press Award. The awards banquet took place during the 40th Annual National Native Media Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. PHOTO/Indigenous Journalists Association
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Rotunda at the new Oyate Health Center on the Sioux San Campus in Rapid City designed by Seven Generations Architecture + Engineering (7GAE). (Courtesy photo) KALAMAZOO, MI – Seven Generations Architecture + Engineering (7GAE), a southwest Michigan based, tribally owned AE firm is working to preserve native histories in Rapid
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John Echohawk (Pawnee), was awarded the 2023 ABA Thurgood Marshall Award. (Courtesy photo) DENVER—Called a “beacon of light for advancing the cause of civil rights” by the American Bar Association (ABA), John Echohawk (Pawnee), was awarded the 2023 ABA Thurgood Marshall Award for being a “Native American rights trail blazer”
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Lester Runsabove LAME DEER, Mont. – Maggie Runsabove, Northern Cheyenne/Sioux of Lame Deer, Montana is a grieving mother, as is the rest of her extended family. On June 7, 2023, her son Lester Runsabove, age 41, an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe was brutally attacked in Billings by
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Robbie Robertson died on August 9, at his home in Los Angeles, at the age of 80. In the heart of every Native is a storyteller, and not surprising for tribal people with only an oral tradition to explain to the generations to come who they were, what they believed.
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Hundreds of indigenous bikers from all over the world gathered for the third annual Veteran Warriors Ride during the Sturgis Bike Rally. Riders gathered at the Bandshell in Rapid City to host a meal for homeless veterans. (Photo by Teko Alejo) STURGIS – On August 11, in Sturgis at the
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Cemetery at St. Labre Indian Mission in Ashland, Mont. now known as Northern Cheyenne Tribal School where an investigation into unmarked graves will commence. (Photo courtesy Northern Cheyenne Tribe) LAME DEER, Montana – Beginning with a letter dated July 12, 2023, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe (NCT) formally offered its technical
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The Wagon Box Fight was an engagement which occurred on August 2, 1867, in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud’s War. A party of twenty-six U.S. Army soldiers and six civilians were attacked by several hundred Lakota Sioux warriors. (Photo courtesy Wikipedia) STORY, Wyoming – On August
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