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A scene typical of Lyman County, South Dakota illustrates its sparsely settled nature, with a population of 3,718 spread across more than 1,700 square miles, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. (Phot credit by Talli Nauman)
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Judge tells South Dakota county to work with tribe on election

By The Associated PressAug 15, 2022
A scene typical of Lyman County, South Dakota illustrates its sparsely settled nature, with a population of 3,718 spread across more than 1,700 square miles, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island. (Phot credit by Talli Nauman)
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Tribe claims prejudice, sues county for diluting Native vote

By Buffalo’s FireAug 3, 2022
Members of the Chauncey Eagle Horn/Phillip Iyotte American Legion opened the ceremony in Rosebud by posting an eagle feather staff, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe flag, the POW flag and the U.S. flag in front of the nine teepees erected to honor the children and their families on July 14, 2022. (Photo by Vi Waln, ICT)
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Rosebud holds memorial service for boarding school relatives

By Vi WalnJul 15, 2022
Davidica Little Spotted Horse of the Oglala Lakota Nation is a heavy metal musician living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Photo by Mary Annette Pember
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This Lakota grandma rocks

By Mary Annette PemberJun 28, 2022
(L-R) Debra Bordeaux, the vice president of Student Services at Sinte Gleska University, US Treasurer Lynn Malerba, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Scott Herman on Wednesday, June 21, 2022 on the Rosebud Reservation. Malerba joined Yellen in meeting with tribal leaders in what is the first time a U.S. treasury secretary had visited a tribal community. (Photo by Vi Wahn, ICT)
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Treasury secretary makes ‘historic’ visit to Rosebud

By Vi WalnJun 22, 2022
Mousseau and her wife Felipa De Leon (left). (Photo courtesy of Monique “Muffie” Mousseau)
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Native couple still championing LGBTQ rights

By Kalle BenallieJun 17, 2022
Trinity Peoples holds a photo of her brother Barney Peoples who was shot by Rapid City police during a burglary investigation. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, ICT)
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Lakota man shot and killed by police

By Mary Annette PemberJun 16, 2022
Pictured: Godfrey “Mikal Okshila (Above Boy)” Benjamin Chipps.
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Indigenous films make scene at Black Hills festival

By Buffalo’s FireJun 2, 2022
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been operating under a shelter at home ordinance since March 2020. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)
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Dams on tribal land to get repairs

By The Associated PressMay 18, 2022
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South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal crash

By The Associated PressApr 12, 2022
FILE - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, speaks Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A South Dakota House committee investigating whether the State's Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg should be impeached for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash is set to finish its work this week. House lawmakers are wrapping up a months-long investigation that has splintered the state's Republicans over the fate of Ravnsborg. Gov. Noem has pushed hard for her fellow Republican's ouster. (AP Photo/John Raoux File)
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South Dakota's governor issues critical race theory order

By The Associated PressApr 6, 2022
NDN Collective, the American Indian Movement and Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective organized a rally against Grand Gateway Hotel from the Memorial Park Bandshell to Rapid City’s federal courthouse on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Photo courtesy of NDN Collective social media video)
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Native man shot at South Dakota hotel has died

By The Associated PressApr 5, 2022
(Photo by J. Stephen Conn via Creative Commons)
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Sicangu Oyate owns the largest Native-managed buffalo herd

By The Daily YonderMar 28, 2022
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EXPLAINER: South Dakota House nears AG impeachment decision

By The Associated PressMar 27, 2022
NDN Collective, the American Indian Movement and Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective organized a rally against Grand Gateway Hotel from the Memorial Park Bandshell to Rapid City’s federal courthouse on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Photo courtesy of NDN Collective social media video)
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Lawsuit filed against hotel wanting to ban Native people

By Chris AadlandMar 23, 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)
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Tribe takes the lead in marijuana industry

By Stewart HuntingtonMar 21, 2022
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Feds once again nix Mount Rushmore fireworks event

By The Associated PressMar 15, 2022
Elementary students celebrate graduation in 2021 at Wakanyeja Tokeyahci, a privately funded Lakota immersion school on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Wakanyeja Tokeyahci)
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Despite defeat, backers of Native education reform press forward

By South Dakota News WatchMar 12, 2022
Friends and family support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe citizen Mason Archambault at Native American Heritage Day on Feb. 19, 2022. Archambault plays for the University of South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Chuck Archambault)
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South Dakota college honors Native student athletes

By Shirley SneveMar 4, 2022
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Oceti Sakowin school dismissed

By The Associated PressMar 2, 2022
This artist's rendering shows plans for 3D designed, 2,000-square-foot homes completed at left and still under construction on the right for a proposed housing development in Texas. (Photo courtesy ICON)
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Tribal college part of NASA plan

By South Dakota News WatchFeb 17, 2022
Banners hoisted at the Rosebud Indian Reservation bring attention to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and to recognize the #MMIWBIKERUNUSA2021. The relay went through Rosebud on Sept. 4-5, 2021, on the way to Washington, D.C. (Photo by Vi Waln for Indian Country Today)
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Lawmakers push for funding for missing Indigenous role

By The Associated PressFeb 8, 2022
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Chairman Delbert Hopkins, Jr. speaks to the South Dakota Legislature during the State of the Tribes address in Pierre, S.D. on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)
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Tribal chairman gives lawmakers history lesson

By The Associated PressJan 14, 2022
Students line up outside the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)
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Rapid City puts up $9 million for Native center

By Stewart HuntingtonJan 12, 2022