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County commission to review speed limit near Pine Ridge
Pennington County commissioners will consider a request today from Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker to review the speed limit on a stretch of road near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.  Pine Ridge5/21/2012
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Pine Ridge grocery store reopens Saturday after selling outdated meat
(South Dakota) -- After being closed for a week following allegations of outdated meat and fears of protests, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation’s sole grocery...
5/18/2012
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Oglala Sioux tribe in SD trying restorative justice technique called sentencing circles
(South Dakota) -- A South Dakota tribe has been testing a form of restorative justice called sentencing circles in hopes it will make community members more accountable...
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Pine Ridge grocery store remains closed
(South Dakota) -- The store director for the still-closed Sioux Nation Shopping Center said Thursday that store employees and Pine Ridge residents are eager to have the...
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Pine Ridge store under closure order
(South Dakota) -- Residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation might have to wait until next week before their sole grocery store is back in business because the tribe...
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Store could stay closed for weekend
(South Dakota) -- The Associated Press has learned that the Oglala Sioux tribe's president has filed a second injunction prohibiting the reopening of the Pine Ridge...
5/16/2012
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Oglala Sioux tribe looks to extend bus program
(South Dakota) -- For the people living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, traveling to Rapid City may soon be as simple as hopping on a bus.
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Pine Ridge grocery store waits to reopen after closure lifted
(South Dakota) -- An attorney for Sioux Nation Shopping Center said the Pine Ridge grocery store might reopen as early as Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe dismissed...
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SD reservation grocery store might reopen Thursday
(South Dakota) -- An attorney for the sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota says it might reopen Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe...
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Sioux Nation Superstore Claims Spoiled-Meat Problems Fixed
(South Dakota) -- Richard Whitmarsh, director of Sioux Nation Superstore, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, has responded publicly to charges of spoiled-meat sales that...
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South Dakota Reservation Grocery Store Remains Closed
(South Dakota) -- The sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remained closed Wednesday despite the attorney general of the Oglala Sioux saying a...
5/15/2012
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Lone grocery store on South Dakota American Indian Reservation remains closed
(South Dakota) -- The sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remained closed for the fourth consecutive day, forcing residents to either shop at...
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Only Pine Ridge Reservation Grocery Store Remains Closed
(South Dakota) -- The only grocery store on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remains shut down Tuesday because of food safety concerns.
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Pine Ridge Grocery Store Closes After Health Violations
(South Dakota) -- The only grocery store in Pine Ridge remained closed Tuesday night after nearly a dozen major health violations involving raw meat. "They'd...
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Pine Ridge area wolf thought to be Wyoming migrant
(South Dakota) -- Tribal wildlife officials on the Pine Ridge Reservation are trying to determine the origins of a wolf that was found dead Monday morning along U.S....
5/14/2012
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New Operators of Sioux Nation Grocery Store NEEDED
(South Dakota) -- As the Native News Network reported yesterday, the Sioux Nation Shopping Center was closed down last Friday "due to health and safety issues...
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Tribe closes Pine Ridge grocery store
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe on Friday announced it had obtained a temporary restraining order from the tribal court to close the Sioux Nation Shopping...
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Suicide awareness campaign focuses on hope
(South Dakota) -- Suicide is a chronic problem on the Pine Ridge reservation, and students of a business class on the reservation teamed up with Rapid City advertisers...
5/9/2012
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KRISTOF: Poverty’s Poster Child
(South Dakota) -- This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money they...
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Native Sun News: Boys and Girls Club at Pine Ridge celebrates
(South Dakota) -- A 20th anniversary event will be hosted by the SuAnne Big Crow Boys & Girls Club on Saturday, June 2 to celebrate and honor two generations of club...
4/27/2012
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Plans for Tribal National Park move forward
(South Dakota) -- A management plan released Thursday for the South Unit of Badlands National Park means the Oglala Sioux Tribe and National Park Service can begin this...
4/20/2012
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FBI Refuses to Open Cold Cases on Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- In a letter dated March 16, Tom Poor Bear, vice president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and James Toby Big Boy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the...
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Oglala Sioux Tribe pushes for FBI investigation of deaths
(South Dakota) -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation officials hope to spur investigations into what they say are unsolved murders of 75 Native Americans over 30 years by...
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Shannon County will get 6 full weeks to vote early
(South Dakota) -- Voters in Shannon County will have a full six weeks of early voting in Pine Ridge beginning Friday, thanks largely to a federal voting rights lawsuit...
4/18/2012
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Oglala Sioux Tribe Demands Justice for Appalling Number of Unsolved Reservation Murders
(South Dakota) -- Violence on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is far too familiar; grievance for lost loved ones hangs heavy in the air. At times, the commonality of...
4/10/2012
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Brendan Johnson on Bootlegging Indictments and More
(South Dakota) -- A federal grand jury has indicted five individuals for possessing and selling alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, says the U.S. Attorney...
4/6/2012
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Oglala Sioux Tribe DEMANDS Justice for Appalling Number of Unsolved Reservation Murders
(South Dakota) -- Violence on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is far too familiar; grievance for lost loved ones hangs heavy in the air. At times, the commonality of...
4/5/2012
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Native Sun News: Sacred sites in Black Hills face desecration
(South Dakota) -- Yet another federally funded “improvement” project threatens to further undermine the sanctity and integrity of a culturally relevant...
4/2/2012
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Judge Says Bank Can Sue Defunct SD Women's Shelter
(South Dakota) -- A judge has ruled that a Denver-based bank that loaned $1 million to a now-defunct women's shelter on a South Dakota reservation can sue in state...
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The Oglala Pet Project
(South Dakota) -- For many on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, life can be tough. The same is true for the animals there. Some pets are abandoned, malnourished and...
3/26/2012
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Oglalas Win Full Early Voting—for 2012
(South Dakota) -- Past and future national elections cast shadows over a Native American voting-rights lawsuit argued in Rapid City, South Dakota, on March 8. At the end...
3/8/2012
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Five indicted for alcohol sales on Pine Ridge reservation
(South Dakota) -- A federal grand jury has indicted five people for possessing and selling liquor on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, a dry reservation and home to a tribe...
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USDA awards $45,000 to Oglala Sioux Tribe
(South Dakota) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced 2012 grants to 17 Native American organizations to develop projects for nutrition education and...
3/2/2012
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SD tribal police chief confirms vice president arrested, jailed in alcohol-related incident
(South Dakota) -- The chief of police of an American Indian tribe that is suing some of the world's largest beer makers for contributing to rampant alcoholism...
3/1/2012
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SD tribal VP arrested, jailed
(South Dakota) -- The vice president of an American Indian tribe suing some of the world's largest beer makers has been arrested and jailed for what police say was...
2/23/2012
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Whalen: Oglala Sioux vice president was arrested
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Tribe Vice President Tom Poor Bear was arrested over the weekend for public intoxication. After a police search for old warrants came up...
2/21/2012
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County commission to review speed limit near Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- Pennington County commissioners will consider a request today from Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker to review the speed limit on a stretch of road near the...
2/20/2012
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South Dakota programs look to keep Lakota language alive
(South Dakota) -- On a recent Tuesday, 5-year-old Jessie White Face hid her hands in the pockets of her pink jumper as she and 14 classmates recited "The Itsy Bitsy...
2/15/2012
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux man loses ruling on court fees
(South Dakota) -- A Pine Ridge Reservation business owner who stood to regain just over $28,000 in court-related costs and attorneys’ fees stemming from a decade-...
2/13/2012
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IRS Audits Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Payments to Low-Income Tribal Members
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe is being audited for the first time in the last 12 years, and tribal officials fear low-income members may have to pay money...
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