Linda Green making a moccasin pattern under the instruction of Precious Trujillo at the recent Moccasin Workshop sponsored by the Community Organizing for Unified Power (COUP). (Photo by Chantelle Blue Arm) RAPID CITY – Ancient Lakota winyan (women) took pride in how well their family was adorned
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Phyllis Young display a buffalo hide painting of a boarding school painted in the 1940’s that was purchased at an auction by the queen of Finland of the Oyate. (photo by Ernestine Anunkasan hupa) RAPID CITY – For nearly a century after the closing of the Rapid City Indian Boarding
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(photo courtesy of pintrest) A bull bison is dangerous, a bear is dangerous, a wolf is dangerous, but nothing in the ancient world was as dangerous as a dozen men armed with spears and the skill and organization to use them correctly. Wolves differed from the bears and the bison
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RAPID CITY – Oaye Luta Okolakiciye has launched a voter registration, education, and information site to support the voice of Native people. Inajin Ye / Stand Up was created with the knowledge our voice is sacred, and to amplify the voices of native people. Every day decisions are made about
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The Native American Parade Day in October 2019. The parade will return with Jackie Giago as the grand marshal in honor of Tim Giago. (Photo Journal File) RAPID CITY – After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Native American Day Parade is back. The parade is sponsored
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1910 Pendleton, Oregon Round Up Pow Wow (Photo courtesy pininterest.com) History wastes little time distorting who people were, why they did the things they did, and unless a given piece of history was lucky enough to have a skilled, principled scholar on hand to jot down every important particular, perhaps
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Imitating a Kimimila (butterfly) Sophia Benally gave a stunning exhibition of the women’s fancy dance to those who gathered at Prairie Edge as a preview of the upcoming powwow. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hupa) RAPID CITY – Once again, the heartbeat of Ina Maka will reverberate throughout the foothills of
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Sacheen Littlefeather in 1973 when she took the stage on behalf of Marlon Brando, to decline his Academy Award for Best Actor. LOS ANGELES—Almost fifty years after Sacheen Littlefeather took the stage on behalf of Marlon Brando, to decline his Academy Award for Best Actor, the Academy of Motion Picture
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No more iconic and disturbing photo of Wounded Knee exists than this tragic death photo of Chief Big Foot. WOUNDED KNEE—A recent resolution from the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) announced that the tribe had entered into a “real estate purchase and sales agreement for the Czywczynski property at Wounded Knee.”
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Ghost Dance of the Sioux, print from a wood engraving, 1891. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C WOUNDED KNEE – For more than a century, there have been misconceptions about the identity of the victims of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre. Because the site is within the boundaries of the Oglala
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