‘We belong here too’

Riders pose for a photo at Bear Butte State Park before the 2024 Medicine Wheel Ride on August 4. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal) STURGIS, S.D. – For the fifth year, a thunderous roar echoed through Bear Butte State Park on the first Sunday of the annual Sturgis

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Healing the community at Wounded Knee

Abandoned Wounded Knee Museum at Wounded Knee Massacre burial site. WOUNDED KNEE – A gathering of the Wounded Knee Community Center Committee was held on Wednesday, July 24 at the large, unfinished community center built approximately 20 years ago. It is a massive building without running water that has been

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Is it safe on Pine Ridge?

Thomas Thunder Hawk Jr., the father of six, was shot multiple times Friday night at the Oglala Nation Wacipi and later died at Monument Health. (Photo courtesy Facebook) PINE RIDGE – The Voices of the Elders committee members have repeatedly expressed their fears to be in their homes and outside

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Could we have the first Native American woman governor?

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan speaks after being sworn in St. Paul, Minn., Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP) WASHINGTON — Minnesota may soon be home to the country’s first Native American woman governor. On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to join the Democratic

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