Houseless and hungry

Houseless and hungry By Clara Caufield, NSNT Staff Writer Part IV   RAPID CITY – What normally happens to a homeless person who is drunk, passed out and in danger of freezing to death in a big city?  If they are lucky, somebody will notice and call the cops.  Going

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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 3, 2022

Transition at Sioux San raises questions

Transition at Sioux San  raises questions By Clara Caufield, NSNT Staff Writer   At the end of February, 2022 the Indian Health Service will no longer have a presence in Rapid City.  Instead, under the direction of the Great Plains Tribal Health Board (GPTHB) federal health care as mandated by

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Shared by Native Sun News Today January 28, 2022

Lakota singers breathe new life into old Native songs

Lakota singers breathe new life into old Native songs Project underway revisits century-old recordings made at Standing Rock    Cody Wasinzi (left) and Courtney Yellowfat rehearse a song recorded 110-years-ago by a Standing Rock elder. Yellowfat is the primary cultural advisor and co-producer of the “Densmore/Lakota Song Repatriation Project.” The

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Shared by Native Sun News Today January 28, 2022

The CHR’s of Rapid City

The CHR’s of Rapid City By Clara Caufield, Native Sun News Today Staff writer   RAPID CITY – Approximately 25% of Rapid’s City’s population is Native American and although members of 305 Tribes reside in the city, the majority are Lakota and many of those are from the Oglala Lakota

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Shared by Native Sun News Today January 25, 2022

Northern Cheyenne Healing Trail

Fort Robinson (Photo courtesy) By Gerry Robinson, Native Sun News Today Correspondent On September 9, 1878, three hundred and fifty-three Northern Cheyenne broke away from the Darlington Agency in Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma. They were intent on returning to their northern homeland in and around the Black Hills.

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Shared by Native Sun News Today January 13, 2022

Yellow Thunder buys 48-acres in Whiteclay

Front row, left to right: Theda Clarke, Russell Means, and an unidentified marcher Behind them: James Hawk (Photo courtesy) PORCUPINE – Group buys 48 acres in Whiteclay. The parcels purchased are located on the east side of Highway 87 across from the Oglala Sioux Nursing Home and former Lakota Hope

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Shared by Native Sun News Today January 13, 2022