Native Sun News Today Owner and Publisher Tim Giago On July 12, 2022, Tim Giago turned 88. Over the past half century, Tim has had a profound influence on Native American journalism. He founded Indian Country Today, and he co-founded the Native American Journalists Association. Tim is a proud Navy
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Memorial Pond RAPID CITY—On a day that was busy due to a local concert, a murder occurred in Rapid Citi which left a lot of unanswered questions. Sheldon Glenn, 43, Rapid City, was found drowned in the Rapid City memorial pond, and Walter Mousseau Jr, 27, Pine Ridge, was charged
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Scotti Clifford (right) and his band The Spirits Cry. On bass guitar is Welby and on the drums is Wakpe. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Was te’) RAPID CITY—Nearly 50 established and emerging Great Plains Native visual and preforming artists gathered at Main Street Square on July 9
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Black Elk Peak (Photo courtesy Fine Art America) PINE RIDGE RESERVATION— No issue matters more to the Lakota than the return of the Black Hills. On every spiritual and historical level, the Black Hills represent the core of Lakota identity and meaning in this modern world. But fifty years
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REDCO’s Jillian Waln and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, became the first sitting national treasury secretary to visit a reservation, fulfilling a promise made last year to begin visiting tribal nations to expand her department’s engagement with tribes. Along with Tellen, was Marilyn Malerba, a lifetime
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Girls setting table at St Francis Mission (Photo courtesy of Digital Public Library of America) PIERRE —In continuing the coverage on the harmful legacy of Catholic schools on South Dakota Indian reservations, a closer look at more recent (in the new millennium) cases brought against two of the educational
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Pictured: Senator Lisa Murkowski (left) with Ms. Liz La quen náay Medicine Crow at SCIA Hearing on June 22, 2022 WASHINGTON, DC – This week, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA) held an oversight hearing on “Volume 1 of the Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding
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gofund.me/07862136 Tim Giago, owner/publisher of Native Sun News Today, is the original founder of seven Native American Newspapers/Magazines over the last forty years. Mr. Giago has paved the way for countless journalists, bringing hard-hitting Native American issues to light, helping change policies at a local, state and national level. Tim
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Souoth Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has been removed from office PIERRE — The South Dakota Senate voted on Tuesday to uphold the articles of impeachment offered by the House removing Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office. The Senate also voted unanimously to keep Ravnsborg from ever again holding elective
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Ray Taken Alive STANDING ROCK—Race relations can get sticky regarding Natives and white men when it comes to tribal language, customs and traditions. A good example is the recent conflict between certain members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Lakota Language Consortium (LLC). The LLC has been working
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