Stewart Huntington

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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)

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)

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)

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

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.

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)

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 Americans. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)

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.”

By Stewart Huntington
Aug 24, 2020