Lakota Cultural Center (LCC) in Eagle Butte. EAGLE BUTTE – At its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, January 6, 2025, the governing board of the Lakota Cultural Center (LCC) in Eagle Butte reaffirmed its mission and operating policies and discussed plans for the future of the Center. The board includes
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J. Garrett Renville, chairman of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, delivers the State of the Tribes address on Jan. 15, 2025, to legislators at the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Tribal leaders are ready for a new South Dakota governor. Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garrett Renville
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Snow buries cars in Livingston, Montana. For several years, the Great Plains area (in our case running from Billings to Rapid City) was favored by relatively mild winters. And, until the weekend of January 10-13, that continued to be the case; however, those conditions came to a screeching halt as
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Energy gaps narrowing after 2 years of clean energy programs Climate Power US, a non-profit that advocates for clean, renewable energy, stated that since 2022, there have been 751 new clean energy projects created, which are responsible for 406,007 new, well-paying jobs, according to a recent correspondence. The pay range
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View of Pactola Lake from the Pactola Visitors Center. (Photo by Marnie Cook) RAPID CITY – Outgoing Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland called the Pactola Reservoir-Rapid Creek Watershed a “treasured landscape” as she finalized her decision to withdraw more than twenty thousand acres in the Black Hills National Forest
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Francis Whitebird (Courtesy Randy Glass Studio) If there were only one man, he would have no need of language, but once there are at least two men, they must be able to communicate. If there were only one man, there would be no need for identity, but once there are
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Wounded Knee Massacre mass gravesite. (Photo by Ernestine Anunkasan Hopa) As the 134th commemoration of the Wounded Knee Massacre nears, efforts to protect the massacre site and review medals awarded to participating soldiers are in limbo. After years of activism by Lakota people, the U.S. Department of Defense announced in
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Construction in Lamedeer, Montana on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. (Photo by Clara Caufield) LAME DEER, Mont. – All around the small berg of Lame Deer, Montana, heart of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, new construction is being pursued. On the west end of town, the BIA/.I.H.S. or government side, a
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Roger Broer and Dream Catchers Artists Guild to receive Governors award in the Arts FORT PIERRE – Arts South Dakota and the South Dakota Arts Council will celebrate the 27th biennial Governor’s Awards in the Arts on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at Drifters Bar & Grille, Fort Pierre. Recipients of
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Whitney Rencountre, Mary Jo Gibbons, Maurice Twiss, Moses Brings Plenty and his brother Joseph Brings Plenty at the Lakota Nation Education Conference at the Ramkota Best Western in Rapid City. (Photo by Kirk Dickerson) RAPID CITY – For forty-seven years, the Lakota Nations Education Conference has provided educators with an
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