Fighting for Our Lives: #NoDAPL in Historical Context

Nick Estes
10/26/16
Little has been written about the historical relationship between the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation)...

House Democrats Call for New DAPL Permitting Process After 2-Hour Forum in DC

Theresa Braine
9/27/16
The U.S...

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Demands Answers From North Dakota State Leadership After Attack on Peaceful Protesters

Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River Sioux Chair
9/4/16
In response to Saturday’s peaceful protest that turned violent when security workers for DAPL unleashed pepper spray and vicious attack dogs on a crowd of water defenders...

Video: #NoDAPL Camp Honors Cheyenne River Youth Runners

Chelsey Luger & Thosh Collins
8/23/16
A group of brave young people from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota ran about 100 miles in one day from home to the prayer campsite in Cannon Ball, North Dakota...

Essence of Political Organizing Is Found at Standing Rock

Mark Trahant
8/23/16
TRAHANT REPORTS —My Facebook feed is rolling with new feeds from those headed to North Dakota to join those protecting the drinking water for the people of Standing Rock and Cheyen...
JR LaPlante is a candidate for the House in South Dakota’s District 14.

A Hundred Candidates? Yes, and a Lot of Talent

Mark Trahant
8/13/16
TRAHANT REPORTS —I have been writing a lot about numbers, lately. My latest count is seven Native American candidates for Congress, one for the U.S...
Richard Pratt Carlisle Indian School

US Army Pledges to Bear Full Cost of Returning Carlisle Remains

David Rooks
5/12/16
Beneath fields in Flanders, Normandy, and Okinawa, young American men and women lie in somber honor beneath row on row of white crosses...

Into the Breach: Rapid City Police Chief Seeks to Heal Fractured Community

David Rooks
3/14/16
“It’s very clear to me there is a tension in the air; an anger you can’t touch – yet, it’s there.” —Rapid City Police Chief Karl Jegeris On Wednesday, Rapid City Police Chief Karl ...

Better Way to Get Money: Enhancing Economic Development and Equal Rights in South Dakota

Stephanie Woodard
9/3/15
In a ceremony in Pierre, South Dakota, Oglala Sioux Tribe President John Yellowbird Steele and Secretary of State Shantel Krebs renewed a compact that allows lenders to file the tr...

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Goes Smoke-Free

ICTMN Staff
6/9/15
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council recently passed the Smoke-free Air Act, making it the first tribe in South Dakota to make sure indoor public places are smoke-free...

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