Courtesy Photo MISSION . Seventeen-year-old, Rosebud Sioux Tribal member Tashina Red Hawk, has officially joined the ranks of Entrepreneurship. In May of this year, she opened her very own drive through coffee shop located on Highway 18 and Washington Street next to NAPA. When asked why she opened her coffee
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Indian treaty rights are one reason judge denied South Dakota governor’s lawsuit to hold fireworks. She sends second letter to U.S. President despite court ruling that explained wildfire and perchlorate problems at national monument in tribes’ unceded Black Hills territory. COURTESY / Kristi Noem PIERRE – South Dakota Gov. Kristi
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Photo of the Hemp House in Pine Ridge by Kim Lathe. RAPID CITY-Back in the early 1900’s the agricultural industry in South Dakota got a new and very valuable partner in the Aby’s Feed and Seed grain elevator. Built in 1911, it was situated close to the railroad tracks in
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Custer’s Last Stand has many names. White America calls it the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Many tribes refer to it as the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Whatever the battlefield in southeastern Montana is called, what it is no longer called is a massacre. The Oxford dictionary defines
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WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, June 22, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland will address the National Congress of American Indians 2021 Mid Year Conference to announce steps the Interior Department will take to begin to reconcile the troubled legacy of
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BUFFALO, WY – On both Saturday and Sunday, June 11 & 12, 2021 the grandstands at Johnson County Fairgrounds were packed to capacity – standing room only for the 2021 Tour of Champions Indian Relay Races. Most of the crowd was non-Indian, sprinkled with Crows, Arapahoe and Northern Cheyenne, Indians
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Pipeline fighter Jasilyn Charger, sentenced June 9 for the act of civil disobedience of locking herself to a KXL pump station in treaty-protected Native homelands, heard the news that same day of the megaproject’s demise and declared, “Death to KXL.” COURTESY / Jasilyn Charger and Mni Un Wiconi SPEARFISH –
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Native Black Hills treaty rights advocates blocked the main route to the national memorial in a civil disobedience action on the occasion of Trump’s 2020 Independence Day reelection campaign stump. COURTESY / NDN Collective EAGLE BUTTE – Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chair Harold Frazier spoke for many when he acknowledged
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June 7: Indigenous leaders and allies are staging nonviolent demonstrations, calling for Biden to honor treaties, stop construction of Enbridge Energy Inc.’s Line 3, protect water, and defend land. Photo by Darren Thompson PARK RAPIDS, Minnesota — During the largest anti-pipeline action ever mobilized here in Anishinaabe treaty jurisdiction, self-proclaimed
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Photo courtesy of Perry H. Rahn, SDSMT RAPID CITY—Every year just about every newspaper in the Black Hills is obliged to do a story about the 1972 Rapid City Flood. If you look closely, you will see they sometimes hardly bother to change the wording in the opening sentence. After
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