Walt Swan, owner of HeSapa Enterprises and Rapid City Common Council Ward 4 candidate RAPID CITY – Walt Swan Jr., an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and self-described “old school Rapid Citian,” is running for Rapid City Common Council in Ward 4. Swan grew up in Rapid
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Isaac Neiss succeeded in claiming his Covid-19 Economic Impact Payment, but it meant jumping through some hoops. His story is the first episode in our exposé on the hurdles for others like him in Indian country. (Photo by Talli Nauman) PART I RAPID CITY – Ronald “Isaac” Neiss figured he
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ALBUQUERQUE – The Governor of New Mexico, has extended a state of emergency order for the town of Gallup, a border town near the Navajo reservation, as the numbers of cases of the coronavirus have increased in the area. The order from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was set to
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As 574 tribal governments awaited federal CARES Act funding, a reservation non-profit organization, Pine Ridge Emergency Relief, produced a poster encouraging people to take individual responsibility for public health during the Covid-19 viral pandemic. COURTESY / Pine Ridge Emergency Relief WASHINGTON. – After dozens of tribal governments sued the U.S.
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Dewey County Sheriff assisting Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe at checkpoint. EAGLE BUTTE — The Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes are refusing to bow to an order South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sent the two tribes on May 8. The order states the tribes must remove coronavirus traffic checkpoints
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Self-described “mask warriors” cut donated fabric and channel it to sewers to make protective gear for first responders of the Pueblo and Navajo Nation “and all over Turtle Island.” COURTESY / Pueblo Action Alliance WASHINGTON – Federal lawsuits filed by more than a dozen tribes succeeded in preventing Alaska Native
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LAME DEER, Mont. – Gerry Robinson, an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana was recently informed that he will be awarded the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding American Western Novel in recognition of his recently published book The Cheyenne Story: An Interpretation of Courage. The novel
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Just before the court decision, grassroots pipeline resisters held a water prayer ceremony in Sweetgrass, Mont., where the pipeline is being built across the Canada-U.S. border under a separate permit. COURTESY / Kokipasni – No Fear GREAT FALLS, Montana – Even after a federal judge here revoked permission for the
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The BIA “has shut down Route 9 at mile marker 12.2 for two years now because you failed to live up to your trust responsibility…. Why are you accusing us of closing roads when you have done that to us?” Cheyenne River Sioux tribal chair tells federal bureau director. EAGLE
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Julian Bear Runner President Julian Bear Runner of the Oglala Sioux Tribe admitted to being arrested this weekend, though he declined to say what charges he is facing. “First and foremost, thank you to everyone for the overwhelming show of support through the tough time,” Bear Runner said in a
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