Women who worked for Native Sun News Today were honored at the Tim Giago Memorial Dinner on Saturday July 15. L to R: Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa, Delphine Red Shirt, Cristy Tibbits, Yolanda Thompson, Michele Hudson, and Tallie Nauman. (Photo by Michele Davies) Award Winning Journalist Jodi Rave Spotted Bear, the
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Morning Prayer (I am the land, the land is who I am) artwork by Joe Pulliam, Oglala Lakota won Best of Show at 2023 Native POP. (Photo by Christopher Piña) Above: “Indian Alley – L.A. artwork by Galen LaRoche won Best of Division II- Two Dimensional B Below: Models
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Author Elizabeth Cook-Lynn with Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association’s Executive Director Gay Kingman. (Photo courtesy Gay Kingman) RAPID CITY—“Writing is an essential act of survival for contemporary American Indians,” Elizabeth Cook-Lynn once wrote. “The final responsibility of a writer like me … is to commit something to paper in the
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Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out with SD Congressman Dusty Johnson and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Ryman LeBeau at the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre Grave-site. (Photo courtesy Congressman Dusty Johnson) Cheyenne River Lakota Tribal Chairman Ryman LeBeau, said, “I can’t remember the last time we had a
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RAPID CITY – Native POP: People of the Plains is excited to announce the 2023 art market and cultural celebration for the two-day art show to celebrate the market’s eleventh year at Main Street Square. This juried art show and cultural celebration is a free annual event in the heart
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WASHINGTON, DC—One of the first acts of the Trump presidency in 2017, was to nominate Neil Gorsuch to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the untimely death of Antonin Scalia. Considered a Conservative, and a strict Constitutionalist, the Gorsuch nomination drew the ire of the Democrat establishment,
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“Today is the continuation of our expression of our love for the people, for our community. We marched to give power to our voices but what we do now, is where the power of our collectiveness is going to become a catalyst for systemic change. We have a plan, we
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Two of the relatives who came out Friday night June 31 to enjoy a community picnic provided by Lloyd Big Crow and Oyáte kiŋ čhaŋtéwaštepi. (Photo by Christopher Pina) RAPID CITY – Lloyd Big Crow held his weekly community picnic Friday, June 30, at the band-shell in Memorial Park in
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On June 24th, the Montana AFL-CIO annual conference made history. By unanimous consent, Jason Small, Northern Cheyenne and standing Republican Montana State Senator was chosen to be the new head of the Montana AFL-CIO chapter. Jason Small is in the center of photograph. (Photo courtesy AFL-CIO) HELENA, MONT. – On
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Rural America Initiatives staff and visitors gathered outside RAI on South Valley Drive where the portraits of Wilmer Mesteth and Calvin Jumping Bull were displayed in front of two chairs artfully draped in handcrafted star quilts. L to R: Dakota Mesteth, Ivas Long Standing and Danielle Smith. (Photo courtesy Rural
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