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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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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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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Michael Calabrese (running for Senate in District 32) RAPID CITY – When Michael Calabrese decided to run for South Dakota senate in District 32, there was no democratic nominee. Calabrese, 10 days before the filing deadline, gathered enough signatures in 2 days. “I am constantly frustrated when there are unopposed
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Native women motorcyclists led the 70-mile ride from Bear Butte, through the scene of the annual 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, to Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills. Photo by Talli Nauman PART I BEAR BUTTE – About 100 people from all across the land gathered at this Native sacred
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Buffalo, at the center of this pipeline map prepared for the Native Sun News Today, has received state permission for a new municipal well providing public water to the private TC Energy Corp., which seeks to build the Keystone XL Pipeline across the tribes’ unceded Ft Laramie Treaty territory.Map by
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Students from American Horse School on the trip to Minneapolis posing with the 57 eagle feathers that were gifted to them. In 2015, a group of 57 Lakota students from American Horse School travelled to a minor league Rush hockey game as a reward for their academic achievements. Three men
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Tribal President Rynalea Whiteman Pena LAME DEER, Mont. – Last week Native Sun News Today printed a story “Lawlessness and Violence at Northern Cheyenne Blamed on Inadequate B.I.A. Law Enforcement” which quickly made its way through cyberspace. Just one day later, July 20, 2020, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe formally, by
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Charlene Teters ALBUQUERQUE – When Charlene Teters, (Spokane), enrolled in graduate school at the University of Illinois in 1989, her teenage children asked to go to a University basketball game. They were enjoying the game when at half time a non-Native man dressed in buckskin, beads, paint and a
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LAME DEER, Mont. – Within the past few months, four unsolved murders, several home invasions, the rise of bold drug operations in broad daylight on Cheyenne Avenue (Main Street in Lame Deer) ; the increased presence of intoxicated persons also hanging out in that area and finally the rise of
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