“People have a right to know that an illegal operation in underway on indigenous land yet again,” said participant Joseph White Eyes. COURTESY / CRGC BRIDGER – Members of the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media, and other concerned citizens organized a “Pow Wow at the Pipeyard” near the gates
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Charles Abourezk RAPID CITY – Rapid City attorney Charles Abourezk has joined the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (GPTCHB) as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and General Counsel according to a news release on the Health Board’s website. GPTCHB’s news release says that they have “made a powerful
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Chairman Harold Frazier leads Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe riders who arrived at Ft. Laramie in Wyoming in April 2018 for the 150th anniversary of the signing of the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty. Photo by Richie Richards LARAMIE, Wyo. – The 2020 Oceti Sakowin Gathering of treaty nations and councils here
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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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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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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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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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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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