RAPID CITY – Farmers will be able to go grow hemp during the growing season of 2021 after the South Dakota Rules Review Committee approved the state’s industrial hemp rules on Dec. 7. The South Dakota Department of Agriculture oversees the industrial hemp program but the Department of Public safety
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RAPID CITY – Soo San Drive, a road in West Rapid City which was previously associated with the Rapid City Indian Boarding School, has been renamed to Sioux San Drive by the Rapid City Council in a 9-1 vote. The issue was met with little discussion and the only dissenting
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Newly elected Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer and Vice President Alicia Mousseaux KYLE — Newly elected Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer and Vice President Alicia Mousseaux were sworn into office and conducted their first meeting on December 4 at the Piya Wiconi Multipurpose Building on the main campus
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Little Crow, Mdewakanton Dakota Part 1 Little Crow, Mdewakanton Dakota Marie Antoinette and Andrew Myrick had two things in common—one, something they allegedly said, and two, losing their heads for having allegedly said it. However much historians dispute whether either of them uttered their infamous words, what can’t
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Ziebach County Sheriff’s officers use a knife to take down the flag of the #LandBack treaty rights movement that flew from the bridge over the Cheyenne River between Bridger and Phillip where the Keystone XL tar-sands crude pipeline is slated to cross. (Courtesy Photo, 2KC Media) EAGLE BUTTE – As
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Eco Prayer Park RAPID CITY — The West Dakota Water Development District and a group of Rapid City area businesses are funding upgrades recommended by a team of South Dakota Mines students at the Trinity Eco Prayer Park in downtown Rapid City. The upgrades will increase the water flow capacity
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Vore Buffalo JumpCOURTESY / Jaqueline Wyatt Part 1 The memories and oral history knowledge of John Stands In Timber, Northern Cheyenne tribal historian and elder were captured in Cheyenne Memories, Margot Liberty, 1972. These memories painstakingly collected over the years are considered highly accurate. One of the memories came from
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TaSina Sapa Win holds her son as she stands against oil pipeline construction in Native treaty territory with other members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective during their intervention at a coalition occupation of the Democratic National Committee headquarters intended to make sure President-elect Joe Biden keeps campaign promises for
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During EPA hearings in Hot Springs on Oct. 5, 2019, Misty Plenty Wolf was one of the 100 people who spoke against allowing Azarga Uranium Corp. to sink water wells in the Black Hills.COURTESY PHOTO PINE RIDGE – The EPA broke two federal laws on Nov. 24 by permitting underground
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Despite pandemic health issues over the summer, MIGIZI students were able to attend classes, like this HVAC course offered by the Minneapolis Community & Technical College, but another recent upsurge of coronavirus has pushed all programming online.COURTESY/MIGIZI MINNEAPOLIS – Only eight months after the grand opening of their recently renovated
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