Tables and chairs are blocked off from use in the Student Success Center at Western Dakota Technical College. Many tables and chairs throughout the campus have been removed, blocked off, are spaced at least 6 feet apart from each other. Photo by Travis Dewes Re-opening measures have begun formation to
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A bridge over Lake Sakakawea connects two sides of the Ft. Berthold Indian Reservation after the 1953 completion of the Garrison Dam formed colossal Lake Sakakawea and flooded one-fourth of Three Confederated Tribes’ treaty land base. Photo by Talli Nauman NEW TOWN, North Dakota – The Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara
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Thunder Valley CDC Community Engagement Director DeCora Hawk displays one of more than 1,600 cleaning kits and countless food boxes she said her organization has prepared and delivered across the reservation. COURTESY of TVCDC PORCUPINE – Thunder Valley Community Development Corp. issued a “Call to Action” that urges people to
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Smudging with sage, a demonstrator stands before a no-trespass banner. Photo Courtesy: Chynna Locket PART II KEYSTONE – The Shrine of Democracy, as Mt. Rushmore Memorial is often called, was named after New York City attorney Charles E. Rushmore, who was verifying property titles in 1884 when he asked local
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Judge reinstates federal rule to curb flaring of methane and other waste fracking gases hazardous to health in the Bakken oil field, shown here at night. Photo by Talli Nauman MANDAREE, N. D. – Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation residents, who live at the center of the oil fields in
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William Smith / Valdez Native Tribe of Alaska WASHINGTON – The lack of funding for the federal Indian Health Service is a function of the failure to honor treaty obligations never more evident than in the disproportionate and extreme impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indian country, according to testimony
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Tara Sweeney Assistant Interior Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney recommended that Alaska Native Corporations receive CARES Act money that the U.S. Congress earmarked for tribal government. COURTESY / Senate Committee on Indian Affairs WASHINGTON – The Cheyenne River, Oglala, Rosebud Sioux and other tribes succeeded in barring the release
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OST President Julian Bear Runner PINE RIDGE – Julian Bear Runner, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, was suspended for 30 days and put on a 14 day quarantine during an emergency council meeting July 8. Robin Tapio, a representative from the Pine Ridge District, made the motion to suspend
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Muscogee Creek Nation: From left, Second Chief Del Beaver, Creek National Council Second Speaker Darrell Proctor, Creek National Council Speaker Randall Hicks, Principal Chief David Hill, Secretary of Education Greg Anderson and Creek Nation Ambassador Jonodev Chaudhuri, visited the Supreme Court on Feb. 11. COURTESY / Jason Salsman, Muscogee (Creek)
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These tents, photographed Dec. 4, 2016, held supplies for some of the thousands of pipeline resisters who camped at a yearlong Standing Rock mobilization: “There’s a big fight yet left.” COURTESY / Tracy L. Barnett WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nicole Ducheneaux had it right: As lead counsel on the Cheyenne River
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