Sonny Elkshoulder (clad in orange) and another occupant of the Tongue River Men’s Shelter who did not wish to be identified. (Photo by Clara Caufield) As reported recently in Native Sun and many other publications around the nation, homelessness is on the rise, particularly needed during the arctic winter conditions
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Calvin Coolidge poses with Native American leaders on the White House lawn in 1925. This photo was taken shortly after Coolidge signed the epoch making Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 into law. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) RAPID CITY—President Trump’s campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants has produced
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Camping at the Waniyetu Wicoti in Yellow Bear Canyon on the lands of the Oglala Lakota Nation. (Courtesy GIW) INTERIOR – Generations Indigenous Ways (GIW) presents its Waniyetu Wicoti 2025 (Winter Camp) on February 14 – 16, 2025, at the Yellow Bear Canyon on the lands of the Oglala Lakota
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The late Marcella LeBeau and U.S. Senator Mike Rounds. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced the Marcella LeBeau Recognition Act to designate the federal office building in Pierre as the “Marcella LeBeau Federal Building.” Born in Promise, LeBeau was a lifelong
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Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president Monday, commuted the life sentence of Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier. RAPID CITY—After a half century of incarceration, former American Indian Movement (AIM) activist, Leonard Peltier, has had his sentence commuted on the final day of Joe Biden’s presidency.
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Beds inside the Flathead Warming Center in Kalispell, MT. (Photo courtesy Flathead Warming Center) RAPID CITY – In the face of growing homelessness crisis, advocates continue to ask the city to create a shelter for the homeless and houseless relatives in Rapid City. Advocates say that the “warming center” proposal
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People protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline demonstrate at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota on Thanksgiving Day 2016. Cassi Alexandra for NPR STANDING ROCK—Although Indian Country is not presently focused on Standing Rock’s battle with Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), the battle still
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Deaconess Hospital, Billings, Montana, where our Navasin Clara Caufield spent Christmas. Having recently experienced an unsatisfactory bout with the I.H.S. Purchased Referred Care (PRC) program, I was explaining the pitfalls of the program to a tribal friend who has a Ph.D. “Write about it,” he suggested. “They (the IHS) doesn’t
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The Oyate Topa Treaty Council is hosting a reservation wide meeting on January 29, 2025, at the Cheyenne River Motel conference room, 24348 US Hwy 212, Eagle Butte, SD, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The gathering aims to “plant seeds of hope and awareness,” inviting participation from all tribes
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First Presbyterian Church on Kansas City Street in downtown Rapid City. ( Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – A request by He Sapa Community Alliance to set up a warming shelter at the First Presbyterian Church on Kansas City Street, just a few doors down from where the Hope
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