P-R-E-S-S R-E-L-E-A-S-E “Gilbert v. Weahkee Headed to Supreme Court” Rapid City, SD —Less than two weeks after submitting their Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, Donna M. Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and Charmaine White Face received notification that their case will be heard by
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LAME DEER, Mont. – April 20th, 2021, the Montana Democratic Party announced that it has filed suit over two laws recently passed by the state legislature under the Gianforte Administration that will limit voter participation. The suit is lodged against Christi Jacobsen, Montana Secretary of State, the principal official who
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South Dakota Artist Laureate Dale Lamphere and Lakota star-quilter Anita Afraid of Lightning share a moment at Monument Health Rapid City Hospital event. Photo by Talli Nauman RAPID CITY – Planners at Monument Health were discussing with South Dakota Artist Laureate Dale Lamphere the sculpture they commissioned him for their
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U.S. Supreme Court COURTESY / SCOTUS WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixteen tribes wrote a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court April 20, stating that withholding CARES Act funds from Alaska Native corporations (ANCs) will not affect healthcare and other services for Alaska Native people. Among the tribes are the
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As a longstanding social enterprise closes its Keya Cafe, Native kitchen trainees fire up a new Turtle Island Food & Coffee Truck to deliver indigenous menu items around town. COURTESY / CRYP EAGLE BUTTE – The Cheyenne River Youth Project, CRYP, is preparing to take its community kitchen on the
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Founding members of the He Sapa Otipi Community Center Board. From left to right:Gene Tyon, Cante Heart, Sandra Woodard, Bev Warne and Kibbe Brown. He Sapa Otipi – Community Center for the People of the Black Hills – is in the early stages of vision planning for an Indigenous hosted
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Mount Rushmore (Photo Courtesy) By Andrew Malo Should Mount Rushmore be destroyed? We look at America’s past in the Black Hills, the meaning of the Black hills to the Lakota, and the faces that are carved into Mount Rushmore to find out. Though I have visited—and thoroughly enjoyed—the Black Hills
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Tree (Photo Courtesy: NARF) NEW ORLEANS, LA. – A recent federal court ruling here reaffirming the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act’s main provisions gave rise to a training session April 29-30 about implementing the law that advocates consider “the gold standard” for protecting Native youngsters. The National Indian
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Gathering at the bandshell in Memorial Park, participants heard speakers talk about culturally appropriate ways of preventing or healing from loss of loved ones. They walked through the park to display signs calling for justice. (Photo Courtesy of Jean Roach) By Talli Nauman Native Sun News Today Health & Environment
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Press releases from U.S. Senator Jon Tester’s office recently announced FY 21 Housing grants to Montana Tribes including the Community Development Block Grants and annual operations grant. Rodney Trahan, tribal member and Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority (NCTHA) Executive Director explained that while essential to tribal housing authority operations the
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