Noem with attendees at the meeting in the Black Hills about co-stewardship of the land and water and protection of Pe Sla and other Sacred Site, between the Forest Service and Tribal leaders. (Courtesy Noem’s Facebook page.) RAPID CITY – The U.S. Forest Service hosted the Pe Sla Sacred Sites
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Ernest Little Mouth, Sr. Northern Cheyenne Tribal Vice President Part 2 of a series LAME DEER, Mont. – As reported in part 1 of this series, in 2020, the National Park Service (NPS) received a grant of 4.5 million to build a new Visitors Center and expanded interpretive services at
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Chantelle Blue Arm interviewing Steve Vance, Ben Rhodd, his son and Russell Eagle Bear who have been coming to what is now known as Black Elk Peak for 37 years for a ceremony that Welcomes Back the Wakinyan Oyate. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) BLACK ELK PEAK – Each spring
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Cante Heart, Bobbi Koch, Gene Tyon and Valeriah Big Eagle RAPID CITY – On March 18, 2024 supporters of the non-profit He Sapa Otipi were hugging and crying tears of joy after action by the Rapid City Council allowing them to finally move forward on their plan to build an
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LAS VEGAS – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is making investments to provide clean drinking water, sanitary wastewater systems and affordable high-speed internet to people in Tribal communities. A portion of today’s funding will improve water infrastructure for the Yomba Shoshone Tribe in
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Leonard Peltier as a young boy. Part 3 of a 5 part series on Leonard Peltier How did a former federal judge from Tennessee become such a staunch advocate for freeing Leonard Peltier? Kevin Sharp is working pro bono to try to get Peltier released from a Florida prison. Sharp
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Newly made jewelry featuring agates from creative Jhon Goes In Center/Photo: Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – It is staggering to think of how time is preserved in an agate. “These are estimated to be 500 million years old,” said Oglala Lakota creative Jhon Goes In Center talking about the agates
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LAME DEER, MT – There are an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 wild or ‘feral’ horses running around the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, said Gene Small, Chairperson of the Northern Cheyenne Grazing Board. Some people believe that the wild/feral horses on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation are descendants of the original Spanish Barbs.
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Leonard Peltier A five-week jury trial was held in U.S. District Court in Fargo, N.D., and Leonard Peltier was convicted on April 18, 1977 of two counts of first-degree murder. He was sentenced on June 1, 1977 to serve two consecutive life terms in prison. Peltier appealed his conviction to
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A buffalo hide painting depicting life at an Indian boarding school. The Remembering the Children Memorial honors the children who attended and died at the Rapid City Indian School, a federally-run boarding school that operated on the campus of what is now the Oyate Health Center (formerly Sioux San) in
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