Mato relaxing at home. (Photo by Mia Feroleto) PINE RIDGE – On the picturesque landscape of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, a charismatic dog named Mato Catches stands out, exemplifying the warmth and vibrancy that characterize his community. With his strikingly blonde coat and soulful brown eyes, Mato
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Turtle Mountain Chairman Jamie Azure encouraged North Dakota’s Indigenous community to get out and vote in this year’s election during the 27th Annual Tribal Leadership Summit on Sept. 4. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame) BISMARCK, N.D. – Hundreds of people erupted into thunderous applause as Turtle Mountain Chairman Jamie Azure energized
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Cory Sasse, RCAS Chief Financial and Operations Officer/Photo from RCAS. RAPID CITY – Rapid City School Board Members received a summarized update about the state of the district school facilities at their regular board meeting on Tuesday night. This week, the District sent out a press release informing parents, students
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LAME DEER, MT: As of the October 3,2024 filing deadline for the 2024 tribal elections, 40 tribal members paid a filing fee and declared their, candidacy for nine open seats. There are several familiar names of incumbents, former office holders and community leaders among that number, but also many “fresh
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Austin Sunka Luta (Cheyenne River Lakota) has 14 years of being clean and sober by traveling the Red Road to Recovery. (photo courtesy of Austin Sunka Luta) EAGLE BUTTE SD – September is National Recovery Month, according to the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Since 1989, the
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Kehala Two Bulls with her husband Marty Two Bulls Jr and their two daughters. (Photo courtesy Kehala Two Bulls) RAPID CITY – Kehala Two Bulls accepted the nomination to replace South Dakota District 34 Senate candidate Michael Calabrese who recently resigned from his candidacy due to family reasons, according to
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Panel participants at the Voices of the Elders meeting. (Photo by Mia Feroleto ) PINE RIDGE, S.D. – Thursday morning, August 22nd, 2024, fifty plus people gathered in the conference room at the Prairie Wind Casino for an all-day meeting organized by Wakan Tahoki Omniciye or Voices of the Elders
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On Thursday August 22, 2024 the signing of an MOU for co-stewardship of the Black Hills National Forest between the Great Sioux Nation Tribes and the U.S. Forest Service took place at the Mystic Ranger Station on 8221 Mt. Rushmore Rd. in Rapid City. Left to right: Crow Creek Sioux
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19th. Century Calvary soldiers pose with Hotchkiss guns like those used at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 to murder hundreds of mostly unarmed Lakota men, women, and children. (photo courtesy of Jeffrey Hotchkiss) PORTLAND ME – Jeffrey Hotchkiss of Portland, Maine, learned in 2009 that his relative invented the
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Registration line can be seen on both the left and the right beyond the food truck vendors and their patrons in the foreground. (Photo by Marnie Cook) MINILUZAHAN – The lonely parking lot behind the Journey Museum came alive on Friday as NDN Collective hosted their Fifth Annual Backpack Giveaway
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