PINE RIDGE - Following a two hour executive session, the OST council on Tuesday in Pine Ridge during a special session voted 10-6 with one not voting to terminate the contracts of three top managers at Prairie Wind Casino. More...
PINE RIDGE - On Monday, the Oglala Sioux Tribal council, meeting in a special session in Pine Ridge chose Charles Pourier, Steve Hawk and Barb Swan to serve a four year term on the election board of appeals and selected Francis Pumpkin Seed as the alternate. Overall, seven tribal members submitted... More...
" many still live in Sioux 400s, transitionals, self-help homes and some still live in shacks."
By Archie B. Beauvais Special to the Times
ROSEBUD - Jesse Clairmont is a longtime Rosebud Sioux tribal employee at 33 years, 18 of those as a program administrator and the insights and experience he has gained over that time span is proving valuable to his current role as project director for the Rosebud Sioux elderly. More...
RAPID CITY - "Our Voice, Your Voice, One Voice" is the theme of the South Dakota 2008 Indian Education Summit hosted by the South Dakota Department of Indian Education. It will be held on Thursday and Friday, Sep. 18-19 at Rushmore Plaza Inn Holiday Inn and Convention Center. More...
KYLE - Lakota Funds Client Spotlight this week is Terry Featherman, one of the Individual Development Account participants. Lakota Tiwahe Family Asset Building Project was started in 2001 and has a 2:1 match rate, meaning that the participant will get $2 for every $1 that they put into their IDA a... More...
I have waited to send you something for a long time as I was unsure of my own self in asking you these questions. First of all I would like to say that I was born in an unwed mothers home in Sioux City, Iowa and was raised by my grandmother, and after I left her home I was pretty much institutiona... More...
Recently the Episcopal Church announced the Bishop will be closing nine churches on the Pine Ridge reservation. I have talked to people who were upset and wanted an outcry of what was happening and I have talked to people who weren't bothered by it much. More...
What is it about the word "undecided" that self-professed liberals find so hard to understand? Although the word cannot be found in my Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, which is probably obsolete by now, More...
With 13 percent of its nearly 670,000 residents considered Native, Alaska has one of the highest percentages of Native people of any state in the country. It long has been hailed by Native leaders as a state where the Native vote can and does swing elections with the highest percentage of eligi... More...
Pine Ridge Community Choir Looking for interested individuals interested in participating in a community choir that would perform a Christmas Choir Concert, depending on interest, practices would start in October, come learn and share the power and beauty of vocal music, for information PineRidg... More...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT. - Cody R. Rodriguez, 20, died Sept. 10, at Salt Lake City. Survivors include fiancee Shantel Anderson, Salt Lake City, Ut.; mother: Ina Rodriguez, Pine Ridge; brothers Luca Rodriguez, Sake City City, Ut., Clifford Standing Bear, Jr., of Pine Ridge; sister Angela Mae Rodriguez, ... More...
PINE RIDGE - Flint Tall of Porcupine won the individual title in the seventh/eighth grade boys division Tuesday in Pine Ridge in a time of 15:54 and led his Porcupine team to the team award over Wounded Knee District School 16-28. More...
MINUTES Shannon County Commissioners August 1, 2008 MINUTES The Shannon County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on August 1st, 2008. More...
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