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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Native Code Talkers will be honored by the American Veterans Motorcycle Ride. Registration begins on Friday, August 13th, 2021 at the Sturgis Indian Motorcycle shop (2130 Main St, Sturgis, SD 57785). Kick Stands Up (ready to begin) at 11:00 am for a 40-mile ride through the Black Hills, ending with
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TULSA, OK—There are deep and ethically questionable roots in those Oklahoma politicians opposing the landmark 2020 United States Supreme Court ruling in McGirt v Oklahoma. Opposition consists mainly of conservative Republican Governor Kevin Stitt and his newly appointed Attorney General, John O’Connor. In McGirt v Oklahoma the Court ruled 5-4
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Characterizations of Peru’s newly elected president Pedro Castillo have swung from communist sympathizer, by the Guardian, to capitalist tool by the World Socialist Website. Castillo narrowly defeated right-wing opponent Keiko Fujimori, daughter of the now imprisoned ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori, in last month’s presidential election, amid charges of voter fraud by
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THIEF RIVER FALLS, MN—Against the backdrop of the horrific discoveries of more than 1,000 Indigenous childrens’ bodies at Indian boarding schools in Canada and the U.S. over the past weeks, the slow genocide of Native peoples continues unabated at the front lines of the Line 3 pipeline. Resistance camps have
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