Founding members of the He Sapa Otipi Community Center Board. From left to right:Gene Tyon, Cante Heart, Sandra Woodard, Bev Warne and Kibbe Brown. He Sapa Otipi – Community Center for the People of the Black Hills – is in the early stages of vision planning for an Indigenous hosted
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Mount Rushmore (Photo Courtesy) By Andrew Malo Should Mount Rushmore be destroyed? We look at America’s past in the Black Hills, the meaning of the Black hills to the Lakota, and the faces that are carved into Mount Rushmore to find out. Though I have visited—and thoroughly enjoyed—the Black Hills
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Tree (Photo Courtesy: NARF) NEW ORLEANS, LA. – A recent federal court ruling here reaffirming the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act’s main provisions gave rise to a training session April 29-30 about implementing the law that advocates consider “the gold standard” for protecting Native youngsters. The National Indian
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Gathering at the bandshell in Memorial Park, participants heard speakers talk about culturally appropriate ways of preventing or healing from loss of loved ones. They walked through the park to display signs calling for justice. (Photo Courtesy of Jean Roach) By Talli Nauman Native Sun News Today Health & Environment
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Press releases from U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s office recently announced FY 21 Housing grants to Montana Tribes including the Community Development Block Grants and annual operations grant. Rodney Trahan, tribal member and Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority (NCTHA) Executive Director explained that while essential to tribal housing authority operations the
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There’s this Northern Cheyenne guy who is doing something unusual for this day and age, but on the other hand not at all unusual for our people of yester yore. Arlee Harris, a somewhat removed cousin of mine is living out in the woods in a camp, by himself
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LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, “a matriarch in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline,” the Standing Rock Youth Council called her. “We will continue to stand,” the group said, joining other Native pipeline fighters in a rally at Three Affiliated Tribes headquarters for the pipeline’s shutdown.COURTESY / Fort Berthold POWER
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Stephanie Herseth Sandlin Tracey Zephier Sarah Collins By Tom Lawrence, Special to Native Sun News Today SIOUX FALLS—Two Native American lawyers with impressive resumes are seeking an appointment to the federal bench. Tracey Zephier and Sarah Collins are vying with former Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin for the seat to be
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Love Hopkins, 11, of White Shield, N.D., puts a finishing stab on the 300-foot effigy of a black snake as tribal youth returned to the U.S, capital five years after their first relay run to demand tribal consultation in petroleum pipeline and other megaproject permitting. (Photo Courtesy) By Talli Nauman,
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LINCOLN, Neb. — Vision Maker Media (VMM) is marking its 45th anniversary in 2021 with a yearlong celebration of free “commUNITY” events, including thematic online film screenings, online virtual programs and more. PBS and the Cherokee Nation Film Office are sponsors of VMM’s 45th anniversary events. In April, VMM’s first
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