US Mint honors national influence of Chief Mankiller By Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation The late Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation, is widely remembered for her courage and resolve. Those hallmarks are why the U.S.
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Little Big Horn Re-enactment—Crow Style (Photo Courtesy of Real Bird’s Little Bighorn & Custer Reenactment. FB page) “War is never good; we go to war for peace.” By Clara Caufield, NSNT Correspondent GARRYOWEN, MT—The grandstands at the June 25th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
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Lakota Food Summit happening in August RAPID CITY—The Lakota Food Sovereignty Coalition will be hosting their Second Annual Lakota Food Summit coming up on August 24, 25 & 26th, 2021. This will be taking place at the Holiday Inn-Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. The summit’s opening
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Models wear clothing designed by Oglala Lakota designer Tosa Two Heart at the Native POP 2021 Designer Fashion Show. Photo courtesy of Tosa Two Heart Facebook page @shoptwoheart. Indigenous culture celebrated at event in Rapid City By Native Sun News Today Staff RAPID CITY―Last week, crowds gathered in downtown
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WANBLI—Last Friday at Crazy Horse School in Wanbli, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council opened their regularly scheduled meeting by honoring seven tribal members for contributions to the tribe. Jade Ecoffey was the first honoree. Going into her junior year at Red Cloud, Ecoffey has been a fixture in South Dakota
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PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — As Native oil pipeline foes stepped up pressure for U.S. President Joe Biden to cancel Enbridge Energy Inc.’s Line 3 construction here, backers of another pipeline project announced July 2, that they are suing him for cancelling theirs. You guessed it: TC Energy Corp. is filing
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CROW AGENCY, Mont, – June 25th, 2021, marked the annual Crow Native Days, replete with many activities, the highlight perhaps the Indian relay races, a sport gaining immense popularity thrilling audiences across the nation. Exceptionally talented and popular announcer, Kennard Realbird, Crow, explained that Indian Relay ticket sales have overtaken
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RAPID CITY – Grassroots Native treaty rights events here during the national Independence Day holiday this 4th of July featured a peaceful but spectacular civil disobedience action: Four indigenous technical climbers scaled downtown’s landmark private grain elevator to drop a gigantic, inverted U.S. flag from the top. “An upside-down flag
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Chairman Frazier statement regarding South Dakota Army National Guard deployment to Texas. EAGLE BUTTE – Harold Frazier, Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, sent a letter to the Governor of South Dakota requesting assistance on assessment and establishment of medical facilities in anticipation of the COVID-19 pandemic spread. Today,
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Sophisticated tribal economies go back well before the time of Columbus. While empires like the Maya, Inca and Aztec are well known, tribes as far north as the Arctic Circle had a flourishing trade-based economy that networked from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Agriculture based economies like the Iroquois and
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