Interior action to restore bison populations

Bison male on green grass (Animals) bison,buffalo,animal,nature,strong WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced several new steps to restore wild and healthy populations of American bison and the prairie grassland ecosystem. Through a new Secretary’s Order and over $25 million from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Department will empower its

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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 10, 2023

Abourezk charted a principled course

SIOUX FALLS—For most of his long and productive life James Abourezk was an anomaly; an educated, erudite, progressive minded man from a rural state where men so described generally have no political future. While white South Dakotans knew Abourezk was a Democrat, few realized he was Arab American, of Lebanese

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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 9, 2023

Sung Nagi Okolakiciye Sunka Wakan Un Wicozanikte

When sister-cousins Andrea Swiftbird, Scarlet Anderson and Bella Wiese disappeared at the Horse Camp and showed up leading this Shetland pony, their family laughed hysterically and said, “Oh my God they stole a horse.” (Photo by Chantelle Blue Arm) RAPID CITY – Delaney Apple’s belief, that Lakota cultural teachings and

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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 2, 2023

Lakota elder advocates internationally for treaty justice

Charmaine White Face presenting “America’s Chernobyl” – the facts about the 3,272 abandoned open pit uranium mines in the Great Sioux Territory – on a 10-day tour on the East Coast, 2013 (Photo courtesy Wikipedia) Charmaine White Face, or Zumila Wobaga (Oglala Tetuwan), proudly claims an Indigenous lineage stretching back

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Update from Indian Caucus, Montana Legislature

Tribal members serving in 2023 State Legislature:  not in order:  Sean Morigeau, Salish Kootenai (d); Sharon Peregoy, Crow (d); Susan Wells, Blackfeet (d); Jonathon Windy Boy, Chippewa Cree (d); Jason Small, Northern Cheyenne (r); Donovan Haek, Crow (d):  Mike Fox, Gros-Ventre-Assiniboine (d):  Tyson Running Wolf, Blackfeet (d).  Not featured Marvin

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‘It’s time to free Leonard Peltier’

“I write from a position rare for a former prosecutor: to beseech you to commute the sentence of a man who I helped put behind bars.” James H. Reynolds U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the Leonard Peltier case. President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Frank Star Comes Out, speaks on behalf

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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 24, 2023

OST suit seeks increased law enforcement funding

OST Attorney Mario Gonzalez, Wakpamni District Representative Sonya Little Hawk Weston and the President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Frank Star Comes Out in the courtroom during the OST v United States. (Photo courtesy Frank Star Comes Out President Facebook page) RAPID CITY—A fundamental misunderstanding persists on the part of

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Shared by Native Sun News Today February 24, 2023