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Students line up on the campus of the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. The school operated from 1898-1933 in Rapid City, South Dakota, and was part of a federal initiative to crush Indigenous cultures and assimilate Native youth into the Western world. The children attending the school were from the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud reservations but children also came from as far away as the Gros Ventre, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead, and Chippewa Nations. (Historic photo courtesy of Kibbe Brown)

Rapid City community asks feds to intervene in land dispute

By Stewart Huntington

Aug 24, 2022

Four traditional Lakota singers face a hillside in Rapid City, South Dakota, while shooting a scene for a new documentary film, "Remembering the Children," which premieres Saturday, July 30, 2022, in Rapid City. The film honors the memory of the 50 children who died at the Rapid City Indian Boarding School, many of whom are believed to be buried on the hill. (Photo courtesy of "Remembering the Children" production)

New documentary honors Rapid City boarding school children

By Stewart Huntington

Jul 30, 2022

Cheers went up as gaming officially began at 9 p.m. Pacific Time Wednesday, April 27, 2022, at the grand re-opening of the Palms Casino Resort. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians made history with the opening, becoming the first to own and operate a resort in Las Vegas. (Photo by Stewart Huntington for Indian Country Today)

Small tribe takes giant leap for Indian gaming

By Stewart Huntington

Apr 28, 2022

Violet Catches, Cheyenne River, left, kneels with her daughter in 2017 to place flowers at the gravesite of her aunt, Mabel Holy, who died in 1901 at the Rapid City Indian School in South Dakota. Holy’s family was never told where she was buried and her fate remained a mystery until 21st century researchers traced her to a nearby grave with her name misspelled. Catches is among a group of elders helping guide plans for a memorial remembering the children who died at the school. (Photo by Stewart Huntington for Indian Country Today)

‘Remembering the Children’ memorial gets $2 million grant

By Stewart Huntington

Apr 11, 2022

The Palms Casino and Resort Las Vegas is set to reopen on April 27, 2022 under new owners, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. It will mark the first time a tribal entity will own and operate a gaming resort in the heart of the nation’s gaming industry. The San Manuel Band won approval on Dec. 16, 2021, to purchase the Palms Casino Resort for $650 million. (Photo courtesy of San Manuel Band of Mission Indians)

Tribe plans Las Vegas grand opening for Palms Casino

By Stewart Huntington

Apr 5, 2022

Native Nation’s Cannabis Dispensary’s Supervisor of Extraction Nick Gelderman examines a marijuana plant in the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s medical marijuana growing facility in Flandreau, South Dakota. The tribe opened the state’s first medical marijuana dispensary in July and is already building two new indoor cultivation plants. (Photo by Stewart Huntington, Indian Country Today)

Tribe takes the lead in marijuana industry

By Stewart Huntington

Mar 21, 2022

Students line up outside the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)

Rapid City puts up $9 million for Native center

By Stewart Huntington

Jan 12, 2022

Tribal leaders from 12 Native nations met Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, at department offices in Rapid City, South Dakota. “We’re here to listen directly to tribal leaders,” Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland said. “It was a good opportunity to hear their concerns first hand.” Photo by Stewart Huntington for Indian Country Today)

'Historic' meeting renews push for Black Hills

By Stewart Huntington

Dec 17, 2021

The Palms Casino Resort is located west of the Las Vegas Strip. (Photo courtesy of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians)

Done deal: San Manuel Band makes history as Las Vegas resort owner

By Stewart Huntington and Sandra Hale Schulman

Dec 16, 2021

Lafawn Janis, Oglala Lakota, stands with the original buildings from the Rapid City (South Dakota) Indian Boarding School in the background. She is a member of a volunteer group working to gain Indigenous ownership of some of the land that once was part of the school grounds. “We’re not giving up,” she says. “This work is the work of our ancestors and our grandmothers, centuries and decades in the making, so we will not ever give up.” (Photo by Stewart Huntington for Indian Country Today)

'We're not giving up'

By Stewart Huntington

Dec 16, 2021

The Palms Casino Resort is located west of the Las Vegas Strip. (Photo courtesy of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians)

Tribe inches closer to historic purchase of Las Vegas resort

By Stewart Huntington

Dec 7, 2021

Lenape Center co-founder Joe Baker stands on the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue in New York in June 2021. “This is Lenapehoking,” he says, gesturing to the bustling city that surrounds him. “Our ancestors are still here.” (Photo courtesy of Stewart Huntington)

'Back to Manahatta’

By Stewart Huntington

Nov 19, 2021

In this Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, photo, children with placards bearing the names of students who died at the old Rapid City Indian Boarding School sit in front of a hillside that researchers determined holds unmarked graves of some of the deceased children. A memorial is planned to honor the children at the site. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)

Honoring the children

By Stewart Huntington

Nov 15, 2021

Jody Naranjo Folwell-Turipa, Santa Clara Pueblo/Tewa, sits with one of her pottery creations. The artist was tapped in 2014 as one of First Peoples Fund’s Community Spirit Honorees. Folwell-Turipa began sculpting traditional blackware and redware pottery as a child using skills passed from generation to generation in her family. First Peoples Fund is a national non-profit organization that honors and supports Native artists and culture bearers. (Photo courtesy of First Peoples Fund)

Major investment in Indigenous 'agents of change'

By Stewart Huntington

Jun 15, 2021

Signs of spring thaw appear in late April 2021 along the Copper River in Tazlina, Alaska. The Catholic Church wants to sell 462 acres that once housed the Copper Valley mission school to the Native Village of Tazlina tribe for $1.86 million but the property has a tangled history. (Photo by John Tierney for Indian Country Today)

Alaska village eyes return of ancestral lands

By Stewart Huntington

May 17, 2021

University of Alaska Fairbanks (Photo courtesy of Enrico Blasutto, Creative Commons) CC BY-SA 4.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0])

'We are past the point of crisis'

By Stewart Huntington

Apr 30, 2021

Lacrosse sticks are held high in this undated photo as part of the Indigenous games that longtime coach Dan Ninham, Oneida, has introduced into physical education programs for Native students. He and his wife, educator Susan Ninham, have now developed an online course for teachers to help them use Native culture and language to help reach students. (Photo courtesy of Northern Indigenous Games)

Teaching teachers to reach Indigenous youth

By Stewart Huntington

Apr 3, 2021

Lower Sioux Indian Community President Robert Lee Larsen said Minnesota’s return on Feb. 12, 2021, of 120 acres of ancestral land to the tribe was a good start. “This isn't a thing to own the land but to regain the relationship with that land and heal," he said. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)

Historic Dakota land returns to tribe

By Stewart Huntington

Mar 29, 2021

Mike Forcia raises his hands in the air as people photograph the fallen Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

What’s old is new: The return of Peacemaking

By Stewart Huntington

Mar 1, 2021

Heather Dawn Thompson

Lakota lawyer to lead Agriculture tribal relations

By Stewart Huntington

Jan 25, 2021

A walkway winds around carved boulders in a new park in Richmond, California, dedicated to the area's Indigenous residents and the shellmounds they left behind. “We now have an opportunity to preserve and remember a piece of that history that once so dominated the Richmond landscape,” said Richmond’s Mayor Tom Butt. (Photo by Masayuki Nagase)

Shellmound park sprang from 'miracles'

By Stewart Huntington

Dec 27, 2020

In this Nov. 27, 2020, photo, "Land Back" graffiti adorns a statue of George Washington in a Minneapolis Park after it was toppled to the ground on Thanksgiving. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)

Are the Twin Cities listening to statue protests?

By Stewart Huntington

Dec 9, 2020

Nick Tilsen gestures while talking about the NDN Collective in this 2018 photograph. Tilsen’s non profit last week was picked by the Bezos Earth Fund -- run by Amazon founder Jeff bezos -- to receive $12 million in funding. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)

Doubling down on Native values

By Stewart Huntington

Nov 25, 2020

Students line up to enter a building on the campus of the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. The school operated from 1898 until 1933. Disputes over the school’s land after it closed have “proven to be an ongoing, nagging issue that … is not going away,” said Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)

‘A small step but a giant leap’

By Stewart Huntington

Nov 17, 2020

Teepees cluster around a common campfire at Camp Mniluzahan, a homeless encampment set up just outside of Rapid City, S.D. The camp is perched on some 90 acres of land held in trust for the Cheyenne River, Rosebud and Oglala Sioux Tribes that used to be part of the shuttered Rapid City Indian Boarding school. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)

‘It’s a sovereign place’

By Stewart Huntington

Nov 13, 2020

Rapid CIty Mayor STeve Allender addresses the town's city council on Monday. The mayor spoke forcefully in favor of a land swap resolution that could possibly result in Native Americans deriving some benefit from 1,200 acres of land that used to be used for the Rapid City Indian Boarding School. Native elders have been demanding use of some of that land for 70 years. CREDIT: Stewart Huntington

South Dakota city puts off vote in land dispute

By Stewart Huntington

Nov 3, 2020

Lawyer Heather Dawn Thompson answers questions at a Rapid City City Council committee meeting Wednesday. Thompson is leading talks with the city to resolve three small pieces of a much larger land dispute that Lakota leaders have been working on for 70 years.

Rapid City lawmakers to mull land dispute

By Stewart Huntington

Oct 28, 2020

In this Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, photo, children with placards bearing the names of students who died at the old Rapid City Indian Boarding School sit in front of a hillside that researchers determined holds unmarked graves of some of the deceased children. A memorial is planned to honor the children at the site. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)

'They are not forgotten'

By Stewart Huntington

Oct 12, 2020

Students line up outside the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. The school operated from 1898 until 1933. After the school shut down the federal government distributed some 1,200 acres of school land to the city, the local school district, the national guard and churches — but none to Native people. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)

Historic settlement inches closer in South Dakota land dispute

By Stewart Huntington

Sep 22, 2020

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (July 15, 2020) -- Lisa Bellanger (left) and Frank Paro sit in front of the Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. They were named co-chairs of the American Indian Movement's Grand Governing Council in May. “One of the things that has kept me in the movement is its spiritual roots,” said Bellanger. “It’s behind most of AIM’s work over the years. Protecting Mother Earth.”

'Into the fire’: New AIM leaders face pivotal time

By Stewart Huntington

Aug 24, 2020

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