Several treaty defenders pose near Pe’ Sla in the Black Hills where roughly one dozen community members gathered in opposition to exploratory graphite drilling. Credit: Courtesy Angel White Eyes, NDN Collective RAPID CITY – Roughly a dozen Indigenous treaty defenders gathered near Pe’ Sla, a sacred site in the Black
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Strengthening the Spirit Conference attendees. Photo by Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – Oaye Luta Okolakiciye hosted the Fifth Annual Strengthening the Spirit Conference at The Box Elder Even Center April 21-23, 2026. The program specializes in culturally grounded recovery and just this month received a ten-thousand dollar South Dakota Community
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Peter Lengkeek, Waná.ca Nú.pa. (Two Arrows), Chairman of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe FORT THOMPSON — Peter Lengkeek, Waná.ca Nú.pa. (Two Arrows) has secured another two-year term as chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, extending a tenure that has reshaped the tribe’s role in regional and national Native governance. Lengkeek
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By the time the last buffalo hunt was recorded, the prairie had settled into a quiet that felt emptied of the life that once moved through it. The great buffalo herds that once thundered across the Plains, rolling like dark rivers over the grass, had thinned to scattered shadows.
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Grand entry at the 41st annual Lakota Omniciye Wacipi. (Photos by Marnie Cook.) SPEARFISH – Black Hills State University in Spearfish hosted the 41st annual Lakota Omniciye Wacipi at the Donald E. Young Center on Saturday. Dancers, vendors, visitors, and locals came together to celebrate with competitive and exhibition dancing,
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RAPID CITY – Today, at the start of Earth Week, NDN Collective announced the launch of the LANDBACK Action Network (LAN) – a growing network of Indigenous people, organizations, grassroots groups, Tribal Nations, multiracial movement organizations, community members, organizers and accomplices working together to strengthen the LANDBACK movement and
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Northern Cheyenne Vice President Ernest Littlemouth at the Annual Army Aviation Warfighting Summit, Nashville, Tennessee. (Courtesy photo) April 15, 2026 marked another historic day for the Cheyenne. The U.S. Army christened a new aircraft, considered “state of the art” in long-range assault warfare, after the Cheyenne people. The event took
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Acoma Pueblo Gov. Charles Riley testifies about the need to improve the tribe’s aging tribal health clinic at a U.S. House Appropriations sub-committee hearing. (Courtesy Native America Calling) Native health leaders are raising urgent concerns about sweeping federal budget cuts they say could destabilize tribal health systems already stretched thin.
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Lily Mendoza at the Matriarchs Rising presentation. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Matriarchal societies have always had to adapt to survive, and for the Lakota that adaptation has meant continually redefining strength, leadership, and kinship in the face of ongoing change. At a recent weekly session at the
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Northern Cheyenne delegation at Doubletree in Deember 2025. The 150th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn is rapidly approaching, June 26, 2026. This year, the annual celebration and remembrance will be expanded to a full week of activities to commemorate this significant event, the most famous of
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