WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Monday August 23, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Citing months of real-world evidence that side effects are rare, the Pfizer vaccine was given full approval. This has already paved the way for companies, universities and government offices to make vaccinations
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RAPID CITY—Even the worst poker player in the world beats the best poker player in the world if he gets dealt a royal flush. Most Lakota start out in life with a pair of deuces, and Aleesia Dillon started out with even less than that. However difficult her formative years
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Prisoner Healing: More than 220 inmates form a healing circle at Mike Durfee State Prison on August 7th during a memorial and honoring song for all those lost during the covid-19 pandemic. SPRINGFIELD—“Welcome everybody to our first pow-wow in 18 months. At this wacipi we would like to remember all
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RAPID CITY – Three suspects are now in custody after two shootings, one that left a Rapid City man seriously injured, and another that left a Rapid City woman dead. At around 3:45 a.m. on August 16th, police were dispatched to the 3900 block of Pointe West Place for a
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Photo courtesy of OSTAS Facebook page PINE RIDGE—Last week, Oglala Sioux Tribe Ambulance Service (OSTAS) employees issued a statement via a live Facebook video. The video was posted at 1:54 PM on August 17 and shows a group of uniformed staff standing together, with one staff member reading a statement:
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WASHINGTON – Tribal police have the authority to detain non-Natives traveling through reservation land if the officer has a reasonable belief that the suspect violated state or federal law, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The unanimous ruling overturned lower courts that said a Crow police officer should not have held a nontribal member who
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RAPID CITY—Across the country conservative groups are working to eliminate or gloss over the darker aspects of American history from education textbooks. That movement has now made itself felt in South Dakota with the recent editing by the South Dakota Department of Education (DOE) of critically important references to the
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BISMARCK, ND—There are few tribal activists that have been more active the past thirty years than Standing Rock’s Tim Mentz. Unlike many activists who deal in aspirational rhetoric, Mentz has always focused on the structural nature of problems; he takes the time to understand every aspect of law and policy
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PIERRE, S.D. – With a new school year starting, the South Dakota Department of Education wants families to know about the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, Special Milk, and Child and Adult Care Food Programs. These federally funded programs help to ensure that children from families whose income meets certain
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Denver, CO — On August 16, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency that oversees Colorado River operations, declared a “Tier 1” water shortage at Lake Mead on the Colorado River, underscoring the severity of the deepening drought and climate crisis across the West. This is the first time
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