Groundbreaking for RAI expansion. From left to right: Richard Moves Camp (spiritual leader), Bruce Long Fox (RAI Executive Director), Anne Reddy (RAI Head Start Director), Jim Scull (Capital Campaign Steering Committee), Jack Lynass (Steering Comm, Pres BHCB), Paulette Davidson (Steering Comm, CEO Monument Health) and Andy Scull from Scull Construction.
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The 100 Horses Women’s Society, Inc. is dedicated to reclaiming the sacredness of womanhood through sharing ancestral, cultural knowledge and to strengthening the skills & resources of rural communities in order to enrich the lives of women across generations. (Courtesy photo) “A woman is worth 100 horses,” according to an
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Barbara Takei, a public historian and Tule Lake Committee CFO, speaks about the similar injustices American Indians and Japanese Americans have faced. (Photo credit/ UTTC video screenshot by Adrianna Adame) BISMARCK, ND. – United Tribes Technical College is acknowledging its past as a WWII-era concentration camp through the creation of
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“Traditional O’odham singers at the 2023 Arizona Indian Gaming Expo in Maricopa, Arizona.” Photo by Darren Thompson MARICOPA, AZ—The Arizona Indian Gaming Maricopa, Association hosted its 2023 gaming expo at Harrah’s Ak-Chin, operated by the Ak-Chin Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, with close to 200 gaming professionals and Arizona based tribal leaders.
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PINE RIDGE – Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out implored the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as President Biden to live up to their trust responsibilities to investigate and enforce all criminal laws on the Pine Ridge Reservation, as agreed to
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Boston Globe Dec. 21, 1891. “Conspicuous in the collection is the ghost shirt worn in the Sioux Ghost Dance during the Messiah Craze. It is a spacious garment, made of heavy unbleached cotton, into which the yellow ochre has been rubbed until the texture looks like buckskin. On the breast
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Families and community members wait outside of Lara Roetzel’s office. Photo by Sunny Red Bear for NDN Action Network. “The state’s attorney’s office is sending a message to the entire community that you can kill a Native person and pay a small fee and go on with your life. What
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Bonnie Goodbird, from New Town, N.D., came to sell Native culture-wear, including womenswear, ribbon skirts and her latest project –– ribbon pants. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame BISMARCK – More than 40 vendors came to the seventh annual American Indian Arts, Crafts, and Entrepreneur Fair to sell their art, beadwork, ribbon
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THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE AND OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE HAVE JOINED FORCES IN ASKING THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION FOR NATION-TO-NATION CONSULTATIONS TO ESTABLISH A 15-MEMBER BI-PARTISAN TASK FORCE TO REVIEW FRAUDULENT LAND CESSION SNUCK INTO ARTICLE 2 OF THE 1868 FORT LARAMIE TREATY BY THE UNITED STATES’ TREATY NEGOTIATORS AFTER IT
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Leslie Lesert, (Right) the oldest sibling of the Uhre Family, along with Jasmine Stangle from Outback Steakhouse and other volunteers help serve the meal, . Urhe gave everyone sage, flat cedar, tobacco and a cup of coffee to welcome them. (Photo courtesy Ending the Silence) Hundreds of elders gather at
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