“Unfortunately, the unmarked graves at the Rapid City Indian Boarding School are a common finding for most Indian boarding schools,” Remembering the Children said. COURTESY / Remembering the Children RAPID CITY – Remembering the Children held a prayer offering here June 4 in tribute to 215 Native Kamloops Residential School
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LAME DEER, Mont. – The scorecard for wins by Indian legislators in the 2021 MT Republican dominated Legislative session was bleak. But, Representative Rena Whiteman Pena, Northern Cheyenne pulled off a home run when HB 810 was passed on a near unanimous vote late in the session. HB 810 establishes
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CROW AGENCY, Mont. – On May 24, 2021 Little Big Horn Park Superintendent Wayne Challoner Announced that the park visitor center is now re-opened. Due to COVID-19, the Center has been closed for over a year. “This means that people traveling far and wide to see this sacred ground can
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Alex White Plume and Winona LaDuke (center) pose with contributors to recent hemp education forum in Indian country. COURTESY / Kerri Pickett OSAGE, Minnesota – Oglala Lakota hemp farmer Alex White Plume co-hosted a “New Green Revolution” Pre Party here in mid-May. The educational event stressed economists’ assertion that his
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When the FBI completed the facial approximation of the skull of Durham’s Jane Doe, the resulting image was that of a white woman with red hair. Police released the drawing to the public and received no credible leads on missing Melissa “Missy” Poitra. BELCOURT, N. D. — Relatives held a
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DAYTON, WY- In Big County, MT there have been 27 missing and murdered Native people (men and women). 87% of those cases have not been solved. Big Horn County includes all the Crow Indian reservation and a portion of the Northern Cheyenne. Their loss and the overall tragedy of MMIW
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SANTA FE, N.M. Students graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts must follow their dreams, never give up. And, become leaders. This was the message from keynote speaker Charlene Teters (Spokane) at the virtual graduation ceremony on May 15. She and others congratulated the students for their perseverance despite
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PIERRE – Charlene “Charlie” Bessken led outdoor enthusiasts and nature lovers like herself in a virtual tour of South Dakota’s honey bee habitat on Endangered Species Day May 21. The tour, in an online forum, highlighted ways “citizen scientists” can take part in protecting a number of critters here in
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VERMILLION – Join South Dakota Focus, Thursday, May 27, at 8p.m. (7 MT) on SDPB1 and SDPB.org for a full-hour dedicated to discussing missing and murdered Indigenous women in South Dakota. Most cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in South Dakota remain unsolved. State Representative Peri Pourier discusses legislation she sponsored
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A 5k prayer walk and run followed a community-based search for a Native woman last seen in Rapid City two weeks earlier.COURTESY / NDN Collective RAPID CITY – A 5k prayer walk and run here on May 23 raised awareness about the plight of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls,
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