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November 20, 2008  RSS feed
Housing is removed from high risk, looks ahead to new development
PINE RIDGE - After the tribal council revised the charter of the Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing in September of 2007, Paul Iron Cloud and a new three member board came on under a large black cloud that threatened to take away HUD funding and close down the tribally chartered organization; OSLH had been through several directors and a variety of boards, More...
Rosebud Hospital has new CEO
Hospital is underfunded and short staffed
By Vi Waln Times Correspondent

ROSEBUD - The Rosebud Comprehensive Health Care Facility has a new Chief Executive Officer Earl Cournoyer who comes to Rosebud from Wagner where he also served as CEO. "My first day on the job was spent in a meeting with the clinical director," he said. "I will build on what is here. More...

15 apply for chief of police
By Tom Crash Times Correspondent

PINE RIDGE - Although the OST Council originally passed a resolution to advertise the OST Department of Public Safety's chief of police position in March of this year, More...

Tribal chairmen's association meet
Tribal leaders work on Missouri River issues, commit to secure land around Mato Paha, urge medals of honor to be revoked

RAPID CITY - The Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association met on Friday, Nov. 14 in Rapid City at the Holiday Inn in coordination with the Indian Health Service Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairman's Association Conference. More...

 Headlines
• It's official, Two Bulls new president, Brewer earns second term
Supreme Court orders new tribal council election in Pass Creek District
PINE RIDGE - The official tally of the 2008 OST General Election was released to the public Monday morning by the OST Election Commission, Theresa Two Bulls defeated Russell Means 2,443 to 2,083 while William Shorty Brewer outpolled Alice Perkins 2,330 to 2,186. Two Bulls won six of the nine reservation districts, Brewer won five of the nine districts over Perkins. More...
• Veteran's pow wow Nov. 14
• article has image Language summit draws more than 450 people
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 Lakota Wicoiye
• article has image Oglala Lakota College's AISES chapter receives national award
KYLE - The American Indian Science and Engineering Society was formed in 1978. The founding fathers' goal was to substantially increase the number of Native Americans and Alaskan Natives in engineering, science and other related technology fields. The goal remains the same. The 30TH annual AISES conference was held in Anaheim, Calif. More...
• article has image Wakpala takes first in Lakota language Jeopardy contest
• article has image Rockyford students cast votes in Kids Voting
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 Ask Anna
• article has image Ask Anna
Dear Anna, I am new at this and I like how you help people. But I need some help with my relationship with my wife whom we were separated because she broke my heart last year. She took our daughter away from me to. But during my separation I've fell in love with someone else in Pierre, she was older than me and she was off and on with her significant other as well. More...
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 Lakota Crossword Puzzle
• article has image Lakota Crossword Puzzles (Answers in next week's edition)
Wóphila A..pétu = Thanksgiving
Across 2. A popular dessert for the Thanksgiving meal 6. A large orange vegetable 8. A big meal 11. The season after summer 12. Holds your food while you eat 13. The month in which Thanksgiving falls 14. More...
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 Opinion
• Thank you to all those who helped at Wanblee
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor: I want to thank all the people who were involved in helping us out during the terrible blizzard in Wanblee on Nov. 5, which left us without lights for over a week. Thanks to the Crazy Horse School for making their school a shelter for much families without electricity. More...
• Language conference was a success
• Rebuttal to opinion on Section 17 Federal Corporate Charter:
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 Dr. Archie B. Beauvais
• article has image Canadian family's own Dakota immersion program
Northern Perspectives
I was quite impressed when I attended a breakout session during the Tusweca Tiyospaye language summit entitled the "Canku Kaga Dakota School" in Sioux Valley Dakota nation in Manitoba, Canada. No one left the room as the session began with a video done entirely in Dakota by several members of the McKay family and introduced by Harold Blacksmith. More...
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 Anson Black Calf
• article has image The system is the problem
Sakowin Wicoicage Wicoiye Words of the 7th Generation
The incarceration system in America of its jails and prisons has more than quadrupled its population from 1980 of half a million prisoners to where it will soon hit the 2.5 million mark of Americans behind bars. For its growth in size this system can be termed as the Prison-Industrial Complex. More...
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 Guest
• American Indian Heritage Month seems to have been put out of mind
As north winds whip across the prairies and mountains, we should expect to hear more conversational gusts about Native people as we reach the midway peak of American Indian Heritage Month. Or will we? More...
• Hopeful future under Obama?
• article has image Woskate Play
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 'REZ HAPPENINGS'
• Rez Happenings
Teca Wacipi Okolakiciye Grand entries set for 1pm and 6:30 p.m. with supper at 5 p.m. for the Teca Wacipi Okolakiciye school pow wows Friday, December 17 Pine Ridge School at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, Friday, January 9 at Wolf Creek School, for information call 867-5174. More...
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 The Holy Road
• ~Larry Charles Hayes~
RAPID CITY - Larry Charles Hayes, 71, Rapid City and Eagle Butte, died Nov. 12, in Eagle Butte. Survivors include his wife, Delores Hayes, Rapid City; a son, Daris Hayes, Rapid City; seven daughters, Debra (Jim) Rencountre, Stacey Hayes and Reva Hayes, all of Rapid City, Terryle Warren, Fort Yates, N.D. More...
• ~Kenneth A. Morgan~
• ~Les J. Bear Nose~
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 Sports
• Study examines nursing home needs
RAPID CITY (AP) - The growth in South Dakota's age 65-and-over population in the next 15 years could push up the demand for nursing home beds and other long-term care services, according to a report by a task force. More...
• article has image Pine Ridge holds Wolf Creek scoreless to win Big Foot Conference football championship
• article has image Pro boxing network promotes athletes
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