LAME DEER, Mont. – Over the past few weeks the COVID has devastated the Northern Cheyenne Reservation and continues its deadly assault upon the Crow Reservation. Big Horn and Rosebud Counties, along with Yellowstone (home to Billings, the primary shopping center for both reservations] now top the State’s list of
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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 3, 2020
Rock The Native Vote 2020 set up census support stands, including this one at Norman First American United Methodist Church in Oklahoma. PHOTO COURTESY / RTNV NORMAN, Oklahoma — After an August federal directive to shorten the 2020 Census outreach period jarred the nation, Indian organizations redoubled efforts to make
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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 3, 2020
Native Women motorcyclists led the Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride 2020 during the annual bike rally, the purpose being to raise awareness about the crisis resulting from failure to protect sisters vulnerable to human trafficking and meet out justice to lawbreakers. Photo by Talli Nauman PART II
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Shared by Native Sun News Today September 3, 2020
U.S. Senate Candidate Dan Ahlers, a Democrat, will go up against former governor and incumbent Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican, in November. It’s been twelve years since South Dakota elected a Democrat for the United States Senate. Dan Ahlers is hoping to change that in November. Ahlers is attempting to
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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 12, 2020
LAME DEER – Members of both the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes are currently under curfews and lockdowns, tribally issued mandates in response rising Covid-19 cases in Big Horn County. Big Horn County, southeastern Montana comprises nearly all of the Crow reservation and about half of the Northern Cheyenne. The
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Pipeline construction shown along the Missouri River breaks in 2016: “We look forward to showing why the Dakota Access Pipeline is too dangerous to operate,” Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair Mike Faith said in 2020. Photo by Talli Nauman WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Aug. 5, a three-judge panel here reversed
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Michael Calabrese (running for Senate in District 32) RAPID CITY – When Michael Calabrese decided to run for South Dakota senate in District 32, there was no democratic nominee. Calabrese, 10 days before the filing deadline, gathered enough signatures in 2 days. “I am constantly frustrated when there are unopposed
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Native women motorcyclists led the 70-mile ride from Bear Butte, through the scene of the annual 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, to Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills. Photo by Talli Nauman PART I BEAR BUTTE – About 100 people from all across the land gathered at this Native sacred
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Buffalo, at the center of this pipeline map prepared for the Native Sun News Today, has received state permission for a new municipal well providing public water to the private TC Energy Corp., which seeks to build the Keystone XL Pipeline across the tribes’ unceded Ft Laramie Treaty territory.Map by
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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 6, 2020
Students from American Horse School on the trip to Minneapolis posing with the 57 eagle feathers that were gifted to them. In 2015, a group of 57 Lakota students from American Horse School travelled to a minor league Rush hockey game as a reward for their academic achievements. Three men
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Shared by Native Sun News Today August 6, 2020