City Council President Laura Armstrong RAPID CITY – Rapid City council unanimously voted on Monday, February 1, to dismiss over 90 complaints which were filed against City Council President Laura Armstrong. The complaints, some of which called for her removal from the council, were in response to ‘Caring Businesses of
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Two water protectors locked to one other between barrels of concrete painted with “Walz Climate Legacy” on Jan. 29, halting construction welcomed by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Pictured at an Enbridge worksite in Park Rapids, Minnesota, pipeline fighters are braving the snow in a more than two-week series of daily
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Keaton Sunchild(Photo Courtesy) On 29, all Montanans, especially Native Americans received good news from Helena, State Capitol. As announced by Western Native Voice (WNV), HB 176 which proposed by a Republican to do away with voter registration on the same day as voting tabled by the House Administration and Rules
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RAPID CITY— Most tribes are greatly encouraged by the memorandum issued by President Joe Biden last week, calling for better consultation between tribes and the federal government. Biden’s memorandum is a reaffirmation of Executive Order (EO) 13175 issued by President Clinton in November, 2000. President Obama also issued a similar
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Children of Mniconjou Lakota woman, who helped obtain her recent early release, pose with her grandchildren and great-grandchild. COURTESY / Clarissa Brown PART II WOODBRIDGE, Va. — It’s been a whirlwind experience for Mniconjou Lakota great-grandmother LaVonne Roach and her family since her release from Federal Prison Camp Alderson here
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Charbaonnueau Girls(Photo Courtesy) SIOUX FALLS – Legislation to address the molestation, rape, and torture of nine Native American sisters by priests, nuns, and church staff running an Indian boarding school is once again introduced this legislative session to South Dakota lawmakers. The South Dakota legislature will be tasked to consider
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Honor the Earth founder Winona LaDuke at Enbridge Line 3 resistance: One of dozens of women leaders telling the new Presidential Administration, “These three pipelines pose grave threats to Indigenous rights, cultural survival, sacred water and land, the global climate, and the public health crises within our communities.” Photo by
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Tim Mentz Photo courtesy of KCLO TV STANDING ROCK— When Tim Mentz was five years old, he had his hands painted red in ceremony, so he could carry the dead. He became a member of the Red Hand Society,
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LaVonne Roach poses in regalia for this picture from prison in 2000.COURTESY / Clarissa Brown PART I ALDERSON, West Virginia—A Mniconjou Lakota great-grandmother from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe was released Jan. 20 from Federal Prison Camp Alderson after more than 23 years in custody on a first offense. LaVonne
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Heather Dawn Thompson RAPID CITY — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the appointment of Heather Dawn Thompson as Director of the Office of Tribal Relations (OTR) on January 25. Thompson, a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a graduate of Harvard Law School, will assist the Secretary
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