South DakotaNative Voices
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Dana Lone Hill: Life taught me to make most of what I have
(5/25/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Many times we go through life knowing there are two types of people. There are those that have and those that have not. Sometimes, we think we have a...
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ECOFFEY: Making small sacrifices without recognition
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- There are many people who get credit for their service to our communities. Activists, journalists, politicians, and academics are well known in Indian...
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GIAGO: South Dakota Public Radio flunks on two counts
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- It is ironic that when experienced reporters familiar with Indian Country are replaced by new reporters or broadcasters with little or no experience in...
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Ecoffey: Confronting the dangers of instant Indians
(5/6/2013)
(South Dakota) -- One of the greatest dangers to Native American communities is the Indians created by the elite institutions of higher learning.
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Mock drill in S.D. riles Keystone pipeline opponents
(5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- An emergency drill in Hot Springs has outraged opponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and a proposed uranium mine in western South Dakota after...
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Chiefs Declare Keystone XL Consultation Meeting Invalid, Walk Out on State Department Officials
(5/18/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Elders and chiefs of at least 10 sovereign nations walked out of a meeting with U.S. State Department officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, on...
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Full Text of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association Statement Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
(5/18/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On this historic day of May 16, 2013, ten sovereign Indigenous nations maintain that the proposed TransCanada/Keystone XL pipeline does not serve the...
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Red Nations shut down US 'consultation' on tarsands in South Dakota
(5/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- This morning at 9:00 a.m. the United States Department of State attempted to hold what they call a consultation with tribal representatives of the...
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Native American tribes challenge Obama over Keystone XL pipeline
(5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Leaders from 11 Native American tribes from South Dakota to Oklahoma walked out of a meeting with federal officials in Rapid City on Thursday to...
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Tribal leaders walk out of meeting about Keystone pipeline project
(5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Tribal representatives walked out of a meeting today with Department of State officials who came to Rapid City to discuss concerns about the Keystone...
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Tribal leaders walk out of pipeline meeting
(5/16/2013)
(South Dakota) -- In a historic move, representatives from several Native American tribes united and walked out on a meeting with U.S. State Department officials...
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Sarah Jumping Eagle: Keystone XL is the battle of our time
(5/5/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On January 25, 2013, the Ihanktonwan Dakota and the Pawnee Nation signed a formal Treaty by which both Nations and another 131 supporting Native...
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South Dakota Gaming
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Tribe submits Oacoma casino application
(5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe submitted an application Wednesday to the U.S. secretary of the interior to allow tribal gaming on trust land near Oacoma.
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Gold Dust Casino to reopen in Deadwood
(5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Gold Dust Casino is slated to reopen sometime this summer on Main Street in the historic western South Dakota gambling town of Deadwood, after...
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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe asks approval of SD casino
(5/22/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe filed a formal application Wednesday seeking federal approval of the tribe's plan to build a new casino along...
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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe seek approval for Oacoma casino
(5/22/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe has asked for federal approval of its plan to build a new casino along Interstate 90 near the central South Dakota town of...
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Gold Dust Casino to reopen in Deadwood this summer
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Gold Dust Casino is slated to reopen sometime this summer on Main Street in the historic western South Dakota gambling town of Deadwood, after...
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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe proposing casino
(4/29/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A hilly, unremarkable-looking patch of prairie just off Old Highway 16 on the west edge of Oacoma is a point of contention in the small community.
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Pine Ridge
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Pine Ridge tribal prison worst for sex abuse
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A tribal prison at Pine Ridge was the worst among several prisons and jails cited in a national study for having a high rate of sexual abuse behind...
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Lease Revoked For Pine Ridge's Only Grocery Store
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The company that runs the only grocery store in Pine Ridge may be on its way out. It's been one year since the store Sioux Nation Shopping Center...
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OST revokes lease for only grocery on Pine Ridge
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe has revoked the building lease for the only grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota because of...
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Creative Solutions May Help Fix Housing Crisis
(5/17/2013)
(South Dakota) -- In Thursday's Eye On KELOLAND, we introduced you to people living through a housing crisis on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It's a big...
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Vargas brings Dance Fever to Rapid City
(5/9/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A dance event organized by Vaughn Vargas, student at the Oglala Lakota College and board member of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention was held...
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Native Sun News: Children in Pine Ridge village get place to play
(5/2/2013)
(South Dakota) -- At last count, there were 70 residents living in the community of Red Shirt Village. The colorful HUD houses of the small community are set against the...
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Native Sun News: Tribes oppose uranium mine near Pine Ridge
(4/29/2013)
(South Dakota) -- With an April 22 deadline for people to intervene in Powertech (USA), Inc.’s permit application for a tribally- contested uranium mine 50 miles...
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Mining & Drilling
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TransCanada Told "You're Not Welcome Here' on Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
(5/15/2013)
(South Dakota) -- And with these firm words the TransCanada representatives were kicked out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation last week.
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Wounded Knee
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Native Sun News: A Wounded Knee descendant speaks out
(5/15/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Leonard Little Finger, a highly respected Lakota elder, historian, and direct descendant of Chief Big Foot, has ended his silence on the Wounded Knee...
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Wounded Knee seller says he's still negotiating with potential buyers
(5/14/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Rapid City man who is selling a controversial parcel of property near the burial ground of the Wounded Knee massacre said Monday that he is talking...
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OTHER VIEW: Holocaust Museum of the Indigenous People should be built at Wounded Knee
(5/11/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Since 1492 the history of the Western Hemisphere has been marked by one of the greatest holocausts in the history of the world.
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Native Sun News: Wounded Knee descendants speak out
(5/10/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The conversation surrounding the sale of Wounded Knee has included commentary from people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, activists from urban...
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ROLO: Remembering Wounded Knee – four decades later
(5/10/2013)
(South Dakota) -- It’s been 40 years since American Indian activists ended their occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., but thanks to them, life has improved in Indian...
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KENT: Hallowed ground for sale
(5/9/2013)
(South Dakota) -- It’s been many years since I first visited the Little Bighorn Battlefield -- a vast area of beautiful rolling hills scorched by memories of the...
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Prospective buyers close in on Wounded Knee
(5/9/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Native Sun News has reviewed documents showing that there are now three separate entities making offers on the two 40 acre plots of land that Jim...
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Wounded Knee Mystery Bidders Working to Secure Land for Tribe
(5/8/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On May 1 the site of the Wounded Knee massacre was put on the open market by owner James Czywczynski with a price tag of $4.9 million. He says three of...
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S.D. tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
(5/5/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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Column: Wounded Knee should be a national monument, not a profit centre
(5/4/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Wednesday 1 May 2013, we may learn the fate of the massacre site at Wounded Knee, a plot of land on the Pine Ridge Reservation that is currently owned...
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Oglala President Brewer on Wounded Knee
(5/4/2013)
(South Dakota) -- James A. Czywczynski of Rapid City, South Dakota has extended the deadline for bids for two tracts of land near Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian...
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Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale on the Open Market
(5/3/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The May 1 deadline came and went without a word from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, so James Czywczynski, who owns the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has...
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Sioux don't have funds to buy massacre site tracts
(5/2/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions
(5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Horses are sacred to Native Americans. For Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, one of the tribal leaders of the Oglala Sioux, there are few places in America as...
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Official: Tribe can't pay for Wounded Knee site
(5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The president of a South Dakota tribe facing a deadline on whether to buy a piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were massacred more than a...
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Sale of 'Wounded Knee' Massacre Site Extended
(5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Native American tribes declare themselves outraged by the pending sale of lands hallowed by the blood of murdered ancestors: Two 40-acre tracts of...
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SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
(5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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Wounded Knee Sale Negotiations Fall Through
(5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- 40 acres of land where the Massacre at Wounded Knee took place may be headed to the open market. Its owner, Jim Czywczynski, set Wednesday as the...
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A Conversation With Wounded Knee Owner James Czywczynski
(4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- James Czywczynski, the owner of the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has stated publicly that he will wait until May 1 to entertain offers for the...
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The new battle for Wounded Knee: Sale of massacre site divides tribe
(4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Some of the Native American Indians living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota can still recall first-hand accounts of the massacre at...
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The Sioux View: Museum’s remit must be to tell the story of a slaughter
(4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A lot of people think what happened at Wounded Knee in 1890 was a battle. It wasn’t a battle; it was a slaughter.
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Wounded Knee Sale Deadline Looms
(4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- As the May 1 deadline approaches for the Oglala Sioux Tribe to purchase the historic site of Wounded Knee for millions of dollars, the tribe has made...
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Native American activists plan to hold protests if Wounded Knee land sold
(4/29/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Native American activists say they will stage protests if commercial buyers seek to purchase a part of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark in...
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Code Talkers
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Code talker’s grandson shares Navajo roots
(5/8/2013)
(South Dakota) -- More than 60 years ago, a group of Native-American Marines, known as code talkers, used the Navajo language to transmit secret tactical information...
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Other News
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Opinion: A missed chance at fairness in Chamberlain
(5/25/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Chamberlain school board has decided that the school's graduation ceremony will not include a traditional American Indian honor song as part of...
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Air Force briefs Oglala Sioux tribe members on Badlands Bombing Range
(5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Air Force Friday briefed members of the Oglala Sioux tribe on the timeframe for the final transfer of the Badlands Bombing Range back to the tribe.
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Native Sun News: Cheyenne River woman loves giving back
(5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- This month, Tammy Eagle Hunter will be starting her new position as Youth Programs Director for the Cheyenne River Youth Project.
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Notebook: Sometimes Indian Child Welfare Act works; sometimes it doesn't
(5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The decisions of the South Dakota Supreme Court contain many cases involving the federal law known as the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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Sweat lodge users upset over fee
(5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A $5 portable toilet fee that is charged to reserve a Native American sweat lodge on the grounds of the Sioux San Indian Health Service unit is a...
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Editorial: State must address racial issues
(5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- What would it have hurt? If the Chamberlain School District would have allowed a Native American honor song to be sung at the local graduation, much of...
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KENT: Native children belong in Native homes
(5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- I could fill volumes with the tripe I receive whenever I write about a Native American issue; and usually from the same select herd of Einsteins (no...
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Native Sun News: State officials absent at ICWA summit
(5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Tearful testimony marked the first day of the Indian Child Welfare Act Summit on Wednesday, May 15. Mothers and grandmothers, some unable to tell their...
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Devils Tower officials encourage climbers to honor closure, respect Native American use
(5/23/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A voluntary climbing closure on Devils Tower is in effect during June out of respect for Native American religious and cultural ceremonies there.
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OP/ED: Chamberlain School Board Denies Singing of a Lakota/Dakota Honor Song
(5/22/2013)
(South Dakota) -- I am a parent of children who attend school in the Chamberlain School District in Chamberlain, South Dakota, and I am also one of the individuals who...
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COMMENTARY: There Are No Indian Reservations in Heaven
(5/22/2013)
(South Dakota) -- I spent part of this week preaching at my friend Quentin Beard’s church in Sioux Falls, S.D. On Sunday—which happened to be Pentecost...
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Native American Telecom turning over financial data in traffic-pumping case
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- After two years of refusal, Native American Telecom turned over audited financial information Tuesday to Sprint in their battle before the state Public...
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SD social services wants tribes' lawsuit tossed
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The head of South Dakota's Department of Social Services asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by two tribes alleging that the state routinely...
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Tanka Bars on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation creates success, jobs
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- With more than 71,000 Native Americans living in South Dakota, many living in reservation communities often leave for bigger and better opportunities.
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Harry Reid, Tom Daschle feud over S.D. Senate seat
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The South Dakota Senate race is turning into a tense feud between two longtime Democratic power brokers: Harry Reid and Tom Daschle.
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FEMA begins assessing local damage; Individual reimbursements not available
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency began working with local officials this week regarding reimbursements for an April ice storm that caused...
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Native Sun News: Students learn about ancestral traditions
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Students at Wounded Knee School in Manderson were treated to an afternoon learning about the traditional and medicinal foods of their ancestors.
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Lyle Eagle Tail: A True Warrior Who Died Trying to Save a Child
(5/21/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On Saturday, March 23, after an all-night wake at the Mother Butler Center, 28-year-old Lyle Francis Eagle Tail was laid to rest in the Mountain View...
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Chamberlain: Honor song 'should be inside'
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Graduations always are said to be freighted with the values and attributes of a culture. That was the case Sunday for Chamberlain High School. The...
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Honor song group protests exclusion in SD town
(5/20/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Supporters of having an American Indian honor song played during high school graduation ceremonies in Chamberlain say they will not give up their...
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