A portion of the Argus Leader front page is shown from Nov. 19, 1973. Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories on children that Jackie Hendry, producer and host of South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s “South Dakota Focus” will write for South Dakota News Watch. Each month,
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Photo Credit CDKC Extension Service LAME DEER, Mont. – On Thursday evening, November 9, a group of young Northern Cheyenne, both male and female, gathered at the Chief Dull Knife College (CDKC) Activities Center in Lame Deer, MT to learn the traditional art or skill of cutting dry meat.
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KILI building PORCUPINE—Few radio stations, if any, have resisted and out-lasted the impacts of broadcast deregulation like KILI Radio has, while still maintaining their original Community Radio format and mission. In this case, to serve the Lakota people at Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Indian Reservations. Forty years on,
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WASHINGTON –The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe is among 74 grant recipients announced today by the Biden-Harris Administration and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to receive money for high-priority, locally-led conservation projects across the United States, as part of the America The Beautiful Challenge launched by the Administration in 2021.
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Carrying the United States Flag – Gerald Cournoyer USMC, Oglala Sioux Tribal Flag – Samantha Decory (National Guard-Active), POW-MIA – Darrell Hernandez (U.S. Navy), K.I.A. Flag – Rod Rouillard (USMC), United States Army – Kim Conroy (US Army), United States Navy – Cornell Reddest (US Army), United States Air Force
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Darrell King April 30~November 19, 2023 LAME DEER, MT. – The entire Northern Cheyenne Reservation and Big Horn County are in shock. Early Sunday evening, November 19, Darrell King, Northern Cheyenne and elected Sheriff of Big Horn County, MT was killed in a head on collision with a semi-truck. At
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The two-story “tiny homes” feature two bedrooms in a loft configuration with a front porch to encourage a tight knit community of support, a key to the YMCA mission “to build strong kids, strong families and strong communities.” An additional foundation (in the foreground) awaits the third home to be
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Four members of the Cheyenne River Waśagiya Najin grandmother group in Eagle Butte on July 16, 2023: (left to right) Leslie Vermillion, Madonna Thunder Hawk, Marcella Gilbert and Mable Ann Hunter. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Cheryl Spider DeCoteau was nervous. It was the Sisseton Wahpeton tribal citizen’s
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Local citizens exercise their first amendment rights and hold up protest signs calling on city officials to recognize the humanitarian crisis they have created by denying a permit for the relocation of the Hope Center. (Photo by Christopher Piña) MNI-LUZAHAN (RAPID CITY)—Winter may be warm at times in the Black
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SIOUX FALLS – The top-two primary election initiative recently passed the halfway point in signature gathering. The nonpartisan South Dakota Open Primaries ballot committee has collected 25,797 signatures to put their initiative on the 2024 ballot. Although only 35,017 signatures are needed to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot,
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