LAME DEER, MT: As of the October 3,2024 filing deadline for the 2024 tribal elections, 40 tribal members paid a filing fee and declared their, candidacy for nine open seats. There are several familiar names of incumbents, former office holders and community leaders among that number, but also many “fresh
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Austin Sunka Luta (Cheyenne River Lakota) has 14 years of being clean and sober by traveling the Red Road to Recovery. (photo courtesy of Austin Sunka Luta) EAGLE BUTTE SD – September is National Recovery Month, according to the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Since 1989, the
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Kehala Two Bulls with her husband Marty Two Bulls Jr and their two daughters. (Photo courtesy Kehala Two Bulls) RAPID CITY – Kehala Two Bulls accepted the nomination to replace South Dakota District 34 Senate candidate Michael Calabrese who recently resigned from his candidacy due to family reasons, according to
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Panel participants at the Voices of the Elders meeting. (Photo by Mia Feroleto ) PINE RIDGE, S.D. – Thursday morning, August 22nd, 2024, fifty plus people gathered in the conference room at the Prairie Wind Casino for an all-day meeting organized by Wakan Tahoki Omniciye or Voices of the Elders
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On Thursday August 22, 2024 the signing of an MOU for co-stewardship of the Black Hills National Forest between the Great Sioux Nation Tribes and the U.S. Forest Service took place at the Mystic Ranger Station on 8221 Mt. Rushmore Rd. in Rapid City. Left to right: Crow Creek Sioux
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19th. Century Calvary soldiers pose with Hotchkiss guns like those used at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 to murder hundreds of mostly unarmed Lakota men, women, and children. (photo courtesy of Jeffrey Hotchkiss) PORTLAND ME – Jeffrey Hotchkiss of Portland, Maine, learned in 2009 that his relative invented the
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Registration line can be seen on both the left and the right beyond the food truck vendors and their patrons in the foreground. (Photo by Marnie Cook) MINILUZAHAN – The lonely parking lot behind the Journey Museum came alive on Friday as NDN Collective hosted their Fifth Annual Backpack Giveaway
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Faith Holmes and inmates at the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Corrections celebration the completion of the NCS workshop using meditation as a tool for change. (Photo courtesy Faith Holmes) PINE RIDGE – In November of 2022 an audience of 99 healers, educators and leaders gathered in Rapid City, South
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Stephan Curran colorized this 1930s photo showing the family of HAWK 1890 member Marlis Afraid of Hawk at Pine Ridge Reservation. Left to right, her great-grandmother “He Ska Win”/White Mountain Woman; grandmother Mabel Cetan Kokipa/Afraid of Hawk; grandfather Richard Cetan Kokipa/Afraid of Hawk; and their two sons, Bert and Cain
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Miriam Iams (L), Evelyn Vinson (M), Joe Polaski (R) RAPID CITY – Officials reported a tremendous turnout for the annual ‘Fill a Patrol Car with School Supplies’ event at local Walmart stores on Friday, with five carloads of supplies donated. They also collected nearly $1,000 in cash donations to purchase
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