“I never allow a lack of knowledge on a particular subject matter to hold me back from doing something,” said James Parker Shield, Chippewa Cree Little Shell, when talking about the National Native Hall of Fame. “About ten years ago I thought: there is a Hall Fame for just about
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Bison gallop in front of corralling fence on the North Rim of Grand Canyon. Photo courtesy of National Park Service GRAND CANYON, AZ—According to the National Park Service (NPS) the herd of 600 bison on the Grand Canyon North Rim will be reduced to 200 by a “lethal removal program.”
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ONEIDA, Wisc. — Detectives are investigating the first-ever multiple killing inside an Indian gaming business, after gunfire claimed three and seriously wounded another at the Oneida Casino’s Radisson Hotel & Conference Center property near the tribal headquarters in this reservation town. The violence is also the Oneida tribe’s first shooting
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P-R-E-S-S R-E-L-E-A-S-E “Gilbert v. Weahkee Headed to Supreme Court” Rapid City, SD —Less than two weeks after submitting their Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, Donna M. Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and Charmaine White Face received notification that their case will be heard by
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LAME DEER, Mont. – April 20th, 2021, the Montana Democratic Party announced that it has filed suit over two laws recently passed by the state legislature under the Gianforte Administration that will limit voter participation. The suit is lodged against Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State, the principal official who
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South Dakota Artist Laureate Dale Lamphere and Lakota star-quilter Anita Afraid of Lightning share a moment at Monument Health Rapid City Hospital event. Photo by Talli Nauman RAPID CITY – Planners at Monument Health were discussing with South Dakota Artist Laureate Dale Lamphere the sculpture they commissioned him for their
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U.S. Supreme Court COURTESY / SCOTUS WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixteen tribes wrote a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court April 20, stating that withholding CARES Act funds from Alaska Native corporations (ANCs) will not affect healthcare and other services for Alaska Native people. Among the tribes are the
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As a longstanding social enterprise closes its Keya Cafe, Native kitchen trainees fire up a new Turtle Island Food & Coffee Truck to deliver indigenous menu items around town. COURTESY / CRYP EAGLE BUTTE – The Cheyenne River Youth Project, CRYP, is preparing to take its community kitchen on the
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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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