BUFFALO, WY – On both Saturday and Sunday, June 11 & 12, 2021 the grandstands at Johnson County Fairgrounds were packed to capacity – standing room only for the 2021 Tour of Champions Indian Relay Races. Most of the crowd was non-Indian, sprinkled with Crows, Arapahoe and Northern Cheyenne, Indians
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Pipeline fighter Jasilyn Charger, sentenced June 9 for the act of civil disobedience of locking herself to a KXL pump station in treaty-protected Native homelands, heard the news that same day of the megaproject’s demise and declared, “Death to KXL.” COURTESY / Jasilyn Charger and Mni Un Wiconi SPEARFISH –
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Native Black Hills treaty rights advocates blocked the main route to the national memorial in a civil disobedience action on the occasion of Trump’s 2020 Independence Day reelection campaign stump. COURTESY / NDN Collective EAGLE BUTTE – Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chair Harold Frazier spoke for many when he acknowledged
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June 7: Indigenous leaders and allies are staging nonviolent demonstrations, calling for Biden to honor treaties, stop construction of Enbridge Energy Inc.’s Line 3, protect water, and defend land. Photo by Darren Thompson PARK RAPIDS, Minnesota — During the largest anti-pipeline action ever mobilized here in Anishinaabe treaty jurisdiction, self-proclaimed
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Photo courtesy of Perry H. Rahn, SDSMT RAPID CITY—Every year just about every newspaper in the Black Hills is obliged to do a story about the 1972 Rapid City Flood. If you look closely, you will see they sometimes hardly bother to change the wording in the opening sentence. After
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“Unfortunately, the unmarked graves at the Rapid City Indian Boarding School are a common finding for most Indian boarding schools,” Remembering the Children said. COURTESY / Remembering the Children RAPID CITY – Remembering the Children held a prayer offering here June 4 in tribute to 215 Native Kamloops Residential School
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LAME DEER, Mont. – The scorecard for wins by Indian legislators in the 2021 MT Republican dominated Legislative session was bleak. But, Representative Rena Whiteman Pena, Northern Cheyenne pulled off a home run when HB 810 was passed on a near unanimous vote late in the session. HB 810 establishes
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CROW AGENCY, Mont. – On May 24, 2021 Little Big Horn Park Superintendent Wayne Challoner Announced that the park visitor center is now re-opened. Due to COVID-19, the Center has been closed for over a year. “This means that people traveling far and wide to see this sacred ground can
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Alex White Plume and Winona LaDuke (center) pose with contributors to recent hemp education forum in Indian country. COURTESY / Kerri Pickett OSAGE, Minnesota – Oglala Lakota hemp farmer Alex White Plume co-hosted a “New Green Revolution” Pre Party here in mid-May. The educational event stressed economists’ assertion that his
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When the FBI completed the facial approximation of the skull of Durham’s Jane Doe, the resulting image was that of a white woman with red hair. Police released the drawing to the public and received no credible leads on missing Melissa “Missy” Poitra. BELCOURT, N. D. — Relatives held a
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