Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources map shows reported spills remediated and still under remediation in a 7.5 mile circumference of Wharf Gold Mine near Lead, South Dakota in the northern Black Hills. Photo credit/ Courtesy of SD DANR’s interactive tool Part one of a four part series. RAPID
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LAME DEER, Mont. – Many people on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, breathed a collective sigh of relief on December 13 when former Pastor, Dean Smith, First Baptist Church in Lame Deer was found guilty in federal court of sexually abusing several young Cheyenne girls who were in his care. The
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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. Teachings about a Messiah that will come to save mankind from inevitable self-destruction and destruction of Ina
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Carlee Schreiner, title is healing. The artist said the woman in this painting represent the jingle dress, which is also a healing dress to the Ojibwe. RAPID CITY – The Lakota Nation Invitational Art show is among the various competitions at the annual Lakota Nation Invitational. LNI Art Show coordinator
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Part 1 of 2 Husasa (Red Legs) became one of the first Sioux Chiefs to convert to Christianity. He took the English name of Thomas Whipple after a Bishop Whipple. On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota Sioux were hanged by the U.S. military in Mankato, MN for their role in
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A t-shirt bearing the message “You are not forgotten” is a fitting reminder that the houseless are not forgotten by members of Woyatan Church whose mantra is “Tunkasila through scripture.” (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) RAPID CITY – The Woyatan Lutheran Church expanded services this week to the unsheltered community
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Taylor Gunhammer giving a presentation at Ramkota during the Protect the Hesapa event. In the foreground is attorney Bruce Ellison who also gave a presentation outling legal remedies to curb mining in the Black Hills. (Photo by Kirk Dickerson) “Our tribal governments must step up to enforce our treaty rights
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President Joseph Biden signs a new Executive Order promoting the next era of Tribal Self-Determination with six Tribal leaders including Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairwoman Janet Alkire (right) at the 2023 Tribal Nations Summit at the U.S. Department of Interior on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. (Photo by Darren Thompson) WASHINGTON—Last
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Friends and family of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives walked for a mile and a half to spread awareness during the Human Trafficking Walk on Nov. 30. Photo credit/Adrianna Adame BISMARCK, ND – More than 30 people walked for a mile and a half in the cold and wind during
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Robert Upham presented a mixed media ledger art piece to Assistant Secretary of Interior Bryan Newland at John Hopkins University Center for Indigenous Health’s inaugural planetary health symposium in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 28. (Photo by Darren Thompson) Dr. Donald Warne, Co-Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health
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