Hardrocker Bruce Bad Moccasin – Photo courtesy of Pierre Capitol Journal RAPID CITY—Bootstraps are what the white folks around Chamberlain expected folks to pull themselves up by. However humble a person’s beginnings, if he yanked on those bootstraps hard enough, he could make himself a big success in life. It
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Native Americans are often encouraged to seek and heed the advice of elders, a hallmark of respect in our culture. Henry James, “aka Jim” has done that. As a young man, he took his grandmother’s advice seriously, “If you cannot feed your family, you are not free,” she often reminded.
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SANTA FE, NM – The New Mexico state Legislature has passed a bill making it illegal for anyone to discriminate against a student or an employee because of their hair style. Dubbed the No Discrimination for Hair bill (House Bill 29 and Senate Bill 80 combined into one) was introduced
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Marilyn Vann (Photo Courtesy) RAPID CITY—California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services, may face unexpected legal challenges to her proposed
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WASHINGTON – In the last week, two groups of Native Americans brought two different cases to a federal appeals court, seeking to protect their religious freedom and stop the government from destroying sacred sites where they have worshipped since time immemorial. The rare convergence of these two cases presents a
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Lily Mendoza: Donations for “No More Stolen Sisters” t-shirts, silk screened at the Bird Cage Book Store and Mercantile, will go to keep the doors of the office open. Photo by Julie Garreau RAPID CITY – The Red Ribbon Skirt Society of the Black Hills is set to open a
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Darla Drew (Photo Courtesy) RAPID CITY – During the Rapid City Council’s working session on March 10, Darla Drew provided an update on Camp Mni Luzahan which included the Camp’s organizers transitioning to an alcohol-free area. Drew, being part of the City and County’s detox board, said that the organizers
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Carley Plenty Arrows: “I Don’t know if it’s because I’m Native American, but they showed me that they simply didn’t care about my well-being.” RAPID CITY — A member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe nearly died while in custody at the Pennington County Jail due to medical neglect by healthcare
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South Dakota’s senators voted against Interior Department Secretary Debra Haaland, despite tribal leader’s requests. WASHINGTON, D.C – On March 15, the U.S. Senate confirmed Laguna Pueblo Rep. Debra Haaland, D-N.M., as the first Native woman to hold a Cabinet post, making her the Secretary of the Interior by a narrow
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Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding (Photo Credit, Book cover art by Denise Giago) PIERRE— In a nod to historical injustice, the South Dakota State House of Representatives passed a resolution on March 2 acknowledging and honoring the survivors of American Indian boarding schools. House Concurrent
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