Falling off of Falling Rock

Dakota Middle Tents grandfather – smudges in Norway during the 1990’s. RAPID CITY – Dakota Middle Tent’s family was relieved when they saw him in the emergency room at Monument Health with only a few broken bones. On Aug. 16 he had fallen over 100 feet from the top of

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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 11, 2020

Grassroots holds ‘Pow Wow at the Pipeyard’

“People have a right to know that an illegal operation in underway on indigenous land yet again,” said participant Joseph White Eyes. COURTESY / CRGC BRIDGER – Members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media, and other concerned citizens organized a “Pow Wow at the Pipeyard” near the gates

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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 3, 2020

Northern Cheyenne and Crow hit hard by Coronavirus

LAME DEER, Mont. – Over the past few weeks the COVID has devastated the Northern Cheyenne Reservation and continues its deadly assault upon the Crow Reservation. Big Horn and Rosebud Counties, along with Yellowstone (home to Billings, the primary shopping center for both reservations] now top the State’s list of

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Indian country census woes mount

Rock The Native Vote 2020 set up census support stands, including this one at Norman First American United Methodist Church in Oklahoma. PHOTO COURTESY / RTNV NORMAN, Oklahoma — After an August federal directive to shorten the 2020 Census outreach period jarred the nation, Indian organizations redoubled efforts to make

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Ahlers makes bid for U.S. Senate against Mike Rounds

U.S. Senate Candidate Dan Ahlers, a Democrat, will go up against former governor and incumbent Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican, in November. It’s been twelve years since South Dakota elected a Democrat for the United States Senate. Dan Ahlers is hoping to change that in November. Ahlers is attempting to

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Crow/Northern Cheyenne under lockdowns

LAME DEER – Members of both the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes are currently under curfews and lockdowns, tribally issued mandates in response rising Covid-19 cases in Big Horn County. Big Horn County, southeastern Montana comprises nearly all of the Crow reservation and about half of the Northern Cheyenne. The

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Court reversal lets DAPL oil flow

Pipeline construction shown along the Missouri River breaks in 2016: “We look forward to showing why the Dakota Access Pipeline is too dangerous to operate,” Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair Mike Faith said in 2020. Photo by Talli Nauman WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Aug. 5, a three-judge panel here reversed

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