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in the dance contest and drum contest. Each school member of the Teca Wacipi Okolakiciye organization sponsors a wacipi at their schools, held on Fridays. The students who are members gain points at each wacipi with the grand final wacipi held at the end of the school year. Students from North Middle School in Rapid City and St. More ... KYLE — Cree Iron Cloud, a senior at Little Wound High School, will be honored as one of the state's top graduating students at the annual Associated School Boards of South Dakota's annual Academic Excellence Recognition Luncheon. More ... KYLE — The Little Wound Middle School recently held a career day with staff from various departments from Oglala Lakota College, military and educational booths. Norma Tibbitts, Bureau of Indian Education line officer for Pine Ridge spoke to the students, followed by a math and science career overview by OLC staff. More ... PIERRE (AP)- The Missouri River Task Force for South Dakota plans to hold its first meeting Thursday in Fort Pierre. The task force is working on plan to promote conservation practices and control, remove and protect river areas from sediment. More ... 2009 Wrestling Team Frank Ghost, Wrestling Coach Wounded Knee School Tournaments Douglas Boys Team Girls Team More ... Last week, the Lakota Country Times began a series about elder nutrition in the Oglala Sioux Nation after the Department of Health and Human Services announced it was awarding $21,810 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to the tribe for its' Social/Nutrition, Title VIElderly Meals Program. More ... PINE RIDGE — Beginning April 1, 2009 officers from the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety and Highway Safety Enforcement Division in partnership with the Bureau of Indian affairs-Indian Highway Safety Program and National Highway Safety Administration will be conducting alcohol check points and safety check points as well as conducting saturation patrols More ... WASHINGTON, DC - Senator John Thune introduced a "Sense of the Senate" resolution expressing support for the full preservation of the federal income tax deduction for charitable giving. President Obama's budget framework proposes reducing the deduction, which would result in less charitable giving nationwide. More ... PIERRE - The South Dakota Department of Public Safety (DPS) is now using technology to help combat drunk driving. It's distributing sobriety checkpoint schedules and taxi numbers via text messaging. And to get those messages all you have to do is visit www.actcivilized.com. More ... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Lillian Sparks, executive director of the National Indian Education Association, along with other partners of the Campaign for High School Equity, continued their Cabinet outreach with a March 27 meeting with Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education. More ... Correction** Issue #25 , March 18, page A2- "Rosebud to receive $4.7 million in stimulus money" was incorrect. "The money we received was not stimulus money. It was FY 09 earmarks funds. We are still working on our earmark funding. The only one that received it was SWA, approximately $3 million plus:, states Rodney Bordeaux, RST Chairman. More ... RAPID CITY - The Indian Health Service recently met with community members to explain that the Rapid City fire department is concerned about the series of fires that have gutted the sweat lodge at Sioux San hospital in the last year, More ... RAPID CITY - Timothy Holz, 61 of Rushville was sentenced to 51 months by U. S. District court judge Karen Schrier for running over and killing two Pine Ridge residents as they walked along side of the highway between White Clay, Neb. and Pine Ridge. Calonnie Randall of Wanblee and Robert Whirlwind Horse of Manderson were the victims on Aug. 27. More ... WASHINGTON, DC - Several tribes across the nation benefited from the signing of the Omnibus public lands management act at the White House on Tuesday by President Obama. According to a press release issued on Mar. 30 Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 13 members of Congress were to be on hand during the signing. More ... PIERRE — A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. CDT on Monday, April 13, 2009, at the Mobridge City Hall on a revised gaming compact between the State of South Dakota and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The proposal, which may be viewed on the State Commission on Gaming Web site, www.state.sd.us/drr2/reg/gami ng, applies to operations of the Grand River Casino. More ... PINE RIDGE — First Peoples Fund will conduct two Arts Marketing and Professional Development training sessions for Native artists on the Pine Ridge on April 2-3 at Eben Hall on the Red Cloud Indian School Campus, and on April 7-8 at Lakota Funds in Kyle. More ... ST. FRANCIS - The young people in this community have a place to go and hang out. The community center on the North end of town is open six days a week and offers several activities. "Some days we have up to 30 young people here," said Darrell Bear Robe. He is the St. Francis Youth Center Supervisor. More ... RAPID CITY — Effective April 1, 2009, the National Weather Service will raise the hail threshold for severe thunderstorm warnings from 3/4 inch to one inch diameter. The wind threshold will remain the same at 58 mph. More ... |
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