HELENA, MT—The Montana State Legislature, now in bi-annual session has the highest number of tribal elected officials in the Nation. They are about seven percent of the Legislature, slightly higher than the census count of Indians in Montana which is slightly over six percent. Yet in the 2023 legislative session
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Hunkpati Dakota Oyate Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Ithuncan Peter Lengkeek. (Photo from SDPB) PIERRE – An extraordinary delivery of the State of Tribal Nations address to a joint session of the South Dakota State legislature was met with a negative response filled with innuendo and an easily provable lie from
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RAPID CITY – The new Oyate Health Center is near completion and will begin hosting patients on February 6, 2023, according to the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board. The Health Board manages the facility on behalf of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and the Rosebud Sioux
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Sen. Ryan Maher R-District 28 Rep. Peri Pourier, D-District 27 PIERRE – A food sales tax cut that passed a House panel Thursday morning has raised concerns for South Dakota’s nine tribal governments. An official with the Bureau of Finance and Management estimated that the tribes would lose about $2
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Crow Creek Tribal Chairman Peter Lengkeek eloquently delivers State of Tribal Nations Address. (Photo by Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Part 2 of 3 PIERRE – Crow Creek Sioux Tribal Chairman Peter Lengkeek eloquently delivered the State of Tribal Nations Address to a joint session of the South Dakota State Legislature
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OST wants Biden Administration to release funds to buy nine new snow plows for the nine reservation districts. (Photo courtesy Urban Milwaukee) PINE RIDGE—Newly elected Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out has sent an 18-page disaster relief request letter to President Biden, dated January 19, 2023, to the
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Crow Creek Tribal Chairman Peter Lengkeek. Part 1 of a series PIERRE –Crow Creek Tribal Chairman Peter Lengkeek delivered a very well prepared and well-articulated South Dakota State of Tribal Nations Address before a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature. On Thursday, January 12 the State of Tribal Nations
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PINE RIDGE—There are two proposed amendments to the Oglala Sioux Tribe constitution, and to vote on these amendments, tribal members must register by mailing in registration forms mailed to them. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), not the tribe, is supervising this vote. Many around the reservation are reporting that
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Tatanka Ptecela (Short Bull) who brought the Ghost Dance to the Lakota People. (Courtesy photo) During his lifetime Tataŋka Ptečela (Short Bull) was instrumental in bringing the Ghost Dance to the Lakota People. After hearing about a new religion that promised to rid the earth of the scourge that befell
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Keith Regier Every tribe knew that eventually state legislatures would move to eliminate Indian reservations. During the Termination Era of the 1950’s and 1960’s, the federal government vigorously pursued a policy bent on terminating tribal recognition and treaty status. Congress passed Public Law 280 in 1953 dividing states into two
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