Leonard Peltier as a young boy. Part 3 of a 5 part series on Leonard Peltier How did a former federal judge from Tennessee become such a staunch advocate for freeing Leonard Peltier? Kevin Sharp is working pro bono to try to get Peltier released from a Florida prison. Sharp
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Newly made jewelry featuring agates from creative Jhon Goes In Center/Photo: Marnie Cook RAPID CITY – It is staggering to think of how time is preserved in an agate. “These are estimated to be 500 million years old,” said Oglala Lakota creative Jhon Goes In Center talking about the agates
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LAME DEER, MT – There are an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 wild or ‘feral’ horses running around the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, said Gene Small, Chairperson of the Northern Cheyenne Grazing Board. Some people believe that the wild/feral horses on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation are descendants of the original Spanish Barbs.
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Leonard Peltier A five-week jury trial was held in U.S. District Court in Fargo, N.D., and Leonard Peltier was convicted on April 18, 1977 of two counts of first-degree murder. He was sentenced on June 1, 1977 to serve two consecutive life terms in prison. Peltier appealed his conviction to
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A buffalo hide painting depicting life at an Indian boarding school. The Remembering the Children Memorial honors the children who attended and died at the Rapid City Indian School, a federally-run boarding school that operated on the campus of what is now the Oyate Health Center (formerly Sioux San) in
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It was more than half a century ago that hundreds of Native Americans set up camp in the community of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in protest of corrupt tribal leadership and to bring attention to the injustices surrounding the murders of Native Americans. The siege,
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Part 1 of a series: Native American activist turns 79 in Florida prison Leonard Peltier waits, hopes — and dreams of freedom. The American Indian activist and longtime prison inmate said he has been battling injustice since he was 9 years old, so he understands the need for patience.
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Beverly Stabber Warne Honoring Feb. 24, 2024 at the Mother Butler Center. (Photo courtesy of City of Rapid City) RAPID CITY – “My work is with Native students. All of my work is with Native students and I love it. I could be retired but I choose not to.” That
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Award winning Northern Cheyenne Facilities/maintenance crew: left to right: Myron Bement; Jeremy Killsnight; Robert Magpie; Steve Brien and Reginold Killsnight, Sr. Not pictured Ty Fischer (Photo courtesy I.H.S.) LAME DEER, Mont. – In December 2023, Bob Magpie, Northern Cheyenne tribal member and Maintenance Director for the Lame Deer I.H.S. Clinic
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MORTON, Minn. – It may be that Native American communities are now in an era of recovery, as the former president of the National Congress of American Indians Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw Nation) stated a decade ago. Keel cited several tribes’ large economic projects, like the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma
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