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October 9, 2008
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PINE RIDGE - It was a quiet election throughout September but when the bell rang Tuesday morning at 9 a.m., Russell Means and Theresa Two Bulls were out of the starting gate in a hurry piling up votes across the reservation to lead the unofficial results for president in the 2008 OST primary elect... More...

PINE RIDGE - The Election Day for the upcoming Oglala Sioux Tribe's Secretarial Election has been changed to Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, and voter registration deadline has been extended to Oct. 15, 2008. As of Monday, there were nearly 600 registered voters for the secretarial election. In April's se... More...

Reservation suicide rate said to be among highest in world

Editor's note***Last month, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader published a three-part series on youth suicide on South Dakota's reservations. More...

PINE RIDGE - Over the past 11 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense, has conducted several environmental investigation projects at sites within the former Badlands Bombing Range on the Pine Ridge Reservation. More...
RAPID CITY - The He Sapa Wacipi Na Oskate 22nd Annual Championship Pow Wow is set for Thursday, Oct. 9, through Sunday, Oct. 12, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. "This year's event is sure to be larger than last with an exceptional array of keen singers, dancers and athletes," sa... More...
I am at a cross roads in my life. I don't know what to do or where I am going. Sunday will be four years since my cousin died, and I still feel so lost. There are times I can hear him and times I sense him. Am I going crazy? Is his death the reason I feel so lost? More...
In October of 2004, the Lakota Country Times was founded by a group of people so Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservation residents could have their own voice. This past week we celebrated our birthday of providing an excellent weekly newspaper to our readers for the past four years. More...
National financial mess ia a good time for tribes to increase land base Amidst election time for both the national election and tribal, we are looking at a national financial crisis. We read about it in the papers and see it on the news. Regardless of how the national crisis is laid out in the ... More...
By now many voters have made up their minds and have settled on one particular candidate for the Office of the President of the United States. It is surprising to many political pundits that there are large numbers of voters still "undecided. More...
Are you the one that writes for the paper?" A lady asked me as I was in line at the gas station. "Yup." I said. She looked me up and down as if she just ate a lemon. "You don't look nothing at all like your picture." She rolled her eyes and sighed, as if the she was disgusted with the whole w... More...
In southern California, where I live, there are about 18 different reservations just in the surrounding area alone. I've been to about half of them and the one thing I keep noticing time and again is that wherever I go I seem to always run into Indians with staring problems. More...
In less than a month, we will vote for the next President of the United States. It will make history because of race or gender. First, Barack Obama may become the first Black President of the United States, or Sarah Palin may become our first female Vice President. More...
Can we afford the cost of the War in Iraq combined with the huge bailout of Wall Street. Many have called the legislation passed by Congress on Oct. 3, the Leave No Banker Behind Act. The Eyes Wide Open display of the American Friends Service Committee at the annual Peace and Justice Center meeti... More...
High School boy's football-Friday, Oct. 10 Red Cloud at Crow Creek 1pm, Cheyenne Eagle Butte at Todd County 7 pm, St. Francis at Pine Ridge 1:30 pm, Hot Springs at Little Wound/Crazy Horse 1:00 pm; girl's volleyball- Thursday Oct. 9 Little Wound at St. Francis, Saturday Oct. 11 Todd County at Whit... More...
BATESLAND - Robert Winters, 85, Batesland, died Monday, Sept. 29 at Rapid City Regional Hospital. Survivors include his wife, Lyla Winters, Batesland; two sons, Gary Winters and Mary Winters; and two daughters, Marsha Rosane and Lisa Bettelyoun. Funeral services were Saturday, Oct. 4, at the St. ... More...
PINE RIDGE - Officials threw their yellow flag nearly 30 times Friday afternoon in a penalty marred game that Little Wound led 8-0 going into the fourth quarter before finishing up a 22-0 win over the Pine Ridge Thorpes for their fifth straight win of the season. More...
BIDS BID ADVERTISEMENT The Shannon County School District, Batesland, South Dakota, is accepting sealed bids until Thursday, October 23, 2008, 4:30 p.m. More...
Happy 1st birthday Wiyaka Hanhepi Roy on 9-26-08 From: you family in duluh, MN , redfare MN Congratulations to Shawn B. More...


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