Native American author honored with peace prize

CINCINNATI — A Native American author whose writings have highlighted his indigenous culture is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials selected novelist, poet and essayist N. Scott Momaday for the Richard C. Holbrooke

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OST Nursing Home grows

The Oglala Sioux Lakota Nursing Home will open a new 12 bed memory wing in January of 2020.(Photo by James Giago Davies) WHITE CLAY— In January of 2020 the Oglala Sioux Tribe Nursing Home located in White Clay, Nebraska, will open a new 12-bed memory wing. This will bring the

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ND blames feds for cost of pipeline resistance

Self-proclaimed water protectors beef up facilities at Sacred Stone Camp in the autumn of 2016.CreditPhoto by Talli Nauman BISMARCK, N. D.  – The state filed a lawsuit here against the U.S. government on July 18, trying to recoup the $38 million incurred as a result of former Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s

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Government’s sterilization program on buffalo questioned

“Bison have a spiritual nature that deserves out honor and respect,” commented Justine Sanchez, President of Buffalo Field Campaign.Photo Courtesy Buffalo Field Campaign WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. – Buffalo Field Campaign has requested the heads of two federal agencies open investigations into the potentially unlawful destruction of public records and removal

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Three years in the making

Hocokata Ti Cultural CenterPhoto courtesy Shakopee Mdewakaton Sioux Community SHAKOPEE, MN— It took three years and $75 million, but Hocokata Ti, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s (SMSC) new cultural center will open to the public on July 26, 2019. According to the SMSC website, the cultural center will be “a

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