RAPID CITY – Grassroots Native treaty rights events here during the national Independence Day holiday this 4th of July featured a peaceful but spectacular civil disobedience action: Four indigenous technical climbers scaled downtown’s landmark private grain elevator to drop a gigantic, inverted U.S. flag from the top. “An upside-down flag
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Chairman Frazier statement regarding South Dakota Army National Guard deployment to Texas. EAGLE BUTTE – Harold Frazier, Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, sent a letter to the Governor of South Dakota requesting assistance on assessment and establishment of medical facilities in anticipation of the COVID-19 pandemic spread. Today,
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Sophisticated tribal economies go back well before the time of Columbus. While empires like the Maya, Inca and Aztec are well known, tribes as far north as the Arctic Circle had a flourishing trade-based economy that networked from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Agriculture based economies like the Iroquois and
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The Hall of Tribal Nations at BIA headquarters honors the federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes of the United States with a display of each one’s flag. The new American Rescue Plan Act relief for indigenous community services is earmarked for these 574 tribal governments, not corporations. (COURTESY
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds’ (R-S.D.) legislation to repeal discriminatory federal laws targeting Native Americans unanimously passed the Senate. The Repealing Existing Substandard Provisions Encouraging Conciliation with Tribes (RESPECT) Act would repeal 11 outdated federal laws, including laws that stripped Native American children from their families for the purpose
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Courtesy Photo MISSION . Seventeen-year-old, Rosebud Sioux Tribal member Tashina Red Hawk, has officially joined the ranks of Entrepreneurship. In May of this year, she opened her very own drive through coffee shop located on Highway 18 and Washington Street next to NAPA. When asked why she opened her coffee
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Indian treaty rights are one reason judge denied South Dakota governor’s lawsuit to hold fireworks. She sends second letter to U.S. President despite court ruling that explained wildfire and perchlorate problems at national monument in tribes’ unceded Black Hills territory. COURTESY / Kristi Noem PIERRE – South Dakota Gov. Kristi
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Photo of the Hemp House in Pine Ridge by Kim Lathe. RAPID CITY-Back in the early 1900’s the agricultural industry in South Dakota got a new and very valuable partner in the Aby’s Feed and Seed grain elevator. Built in 1911, it was situated close to the railroad tracks in
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Custer’s Last Stand has many names. White America calls it the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Many tribes refer to it as the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Whatever the battlefield in southeastern Montana is called, what it is no longer called is a massacre. The Oxford dictionary defines
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WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, June 22, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland will address the National Congress of American Indians 2021 Mid Year Conference to announce steps the Interior Department will take to begin to reconcile the troubled legacy of
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