Sea Lions bask on a California Beach near Monterrey. Proposals to open ecologically sensitive outer continental shelf habitat to offshore oil and gas development threatens protected and endangered wildlife species, traditional indigenous subsistence fishing and foraging, and coastal ecotourism. Legal counsel for EarthJustice, an environmental advocacy non-profit organization representing the
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 1, 2025
Robert Kennedy Jr. addressed tribal leaders at Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) quarterly meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, March 8, 2024 (Photo by Darren Thompson) WASHINGTON—On Friday, federal orders sent sweeping budget cuts to many federal agencies, including some that serve Indian Country, a move many say is
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 25, 2025
Leonard Peltier as he is stepping off of the plane at Devil’s Lake, ND BELCOURT, N.D. – After 49 years of imprisonment, Chippewa activist Leonard Peltier raised his fist out the window of a white SUV Tuesday as he crossed the border of the Turtle Mountain Reservation and shouted to
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 25, 2025
Marvin Richard and Benson Keiffer fighting for control of the ball during the LNI Championship game between Rapid City Christian and Pine Ridge Thorpes. (Photo by James Giago Davies) PINE RIDGE—Every twenty years a couple of ballplayers develop into a class a cut above all other players. If we go
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 25, 2025
State Sen. Tamara Grove, R-Lower Brule, speaks on the South Dakota Senate floor on Jan. 22, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) PIERRE — On Thursday in Pierre, state senators did something no previous Senate had been willing to do: Endorse a bill to change South Dakota’s unique-in-the-nation felony drug ingestion
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 15, 2025
RAPID CITY—Across the nation, every one of the 574 federally recognized tribes, has seen what Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has done to massive bureaucracies like USAID, and the concern is that Musk will set his crosshairs on the Department of Interior in general, and
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First Presbyterian Church courtyard playground. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – After asking for divine guidance, it took less than twenty minutes, from invocation to final consideration of the item, for the Rapid City Council to vote unanimously to table the warming center. The meeting began with an invocation
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 15, 2025
Joseph Lafferty hold up a traditional Lakota whip as he explains the important role of whipman. (Photo by Alaina Beautiful Bald Eagle) EAGLE BUTTE – The Oyate Topa Treaty Council issues an urgent call to action in its invitation to the second Reservation-Wide Meeting on February 19, 2025, from 9:00
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 15, 2025
Taaliyah Porter, 5-10 senior forward for the Steven’s Raiders. (Photo by James Giago Davies) RAPID CITY — For half a century Rapid City Central has produced dozens of Native ballplayers, but there were few Natives playing for Rapid City Stevens. In the last ten years, that has changed with Stevens
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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 8, 2025
“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem.”~ Executive Director for Tanka Fund Dawn Sherman RAPID CITY – The buffalo was brought to near extinction in the late 1800’s by the United States “scorched earth” policies. This is a military strategy to destroy everything in
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