Elaine Miles and Whitney Rencountre II. CUSTER – The Crazy Horse Memorial celebrated the annual Native American Day with a full schedule of events featuring keynote speaker actor Elaine Miles, a performance from the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO) Lakota Music Project with the Creekside Singers, craft workshops, and free
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SD Governor George S. Mickelson addressing the audience at the first Native Americans’ Day celebration in October of 1990. Since, Crazy Horse Memorial® has hosted Native Americans’ Day celebrations annually on the second Monday in October. (Photo courtesy Crazy Horse Memorial) In 1990, South Dakota made history by becoming the
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During the month of September, tribal elders and students remembered the last battle between the Northern Cheyenne and the U.S. Military which occurred on September 27, 1878 while the Cheyenne were fighting their way back from Oklahoma to Montana. The Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork happened at Battle Canyon,
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Mario Gonzalez speaking at the West River History Conference. (Photo by Marnie Cook) MULEY LODGE NEAR STURGIS – Mario Gonzalez, an Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) attorney, spoke to a packed house discussing the Sioux Nation’s historical struggles and ongoing legal battles for land rights, at the Thirty-First West River History
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Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of Interior. Alamy On the morning of December 15, 1890, Lakota Medicine man Tatá.ka Íyotake (Sitting Bull) was shot
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Miniconjou Chief Spotted Elk (aka Big Foot) lies dead in the snow after the massacre at Wounded Knee, January 1, 1891. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration/ unknown photographer) The U.S. Army’s 1890 massacre of an encircled group of Natives has been brought to light again, after Defense Secretary Pete
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OSWS Vice President Patty Bordeaux Nelson reading at the 2025 retreat. (Photo by Marnie Cook) EAGLE BUTTE – The Oceti Sakowin Writers Society (OSWS) announced at their Thirty-Second Annual OSWS Tribal Writers Retreat that they have received a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to co-edit The Oceti Sakowin
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Ernie Stevens Jr., 66, JULY 5, 1959 ~ September 26, 2025 Ernest L. “Ernie” Stevens Jr. — who led the powerful Indian Gaming Association for more than 20 years while working to help others through community activism — died suddenly on Friday, Sept. 26. He was 66. His family issued
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AI-generated image depicting standoff between tribal and state police officers. In the endless debates about tribal sovereignty, most Native leaders frame the conflict as tribe versus federal government. The Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Supreme Court, Congress—these are seen as the forces impinging on Indigenous self-rule. And in many respects,
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CRST Chairman Ryman LeBeau (left) welcomed Mark Cruz, (right), the Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, along with other dignitaries, officials, guests, and the public to an August 28th groundbreaking ceremony. (Photo courtesy of Warren LeBeau) EAGLE BUTTE – On August 28th, the Cheyenne River
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