On the morning after spring prom, Nicole Alkire woke up to a text from her teenage daughter, a junior at Flasher High School. When she clicked on a link her daughter sent her, she saw a video of Native cultural ... Read More
Education
Tanner Veo felt proud when he was unanimously reelected as president of the Student Government Association for the 2023-2024 term last spring. Photo Courtesy of Tanner Veo
Tanner Veo felt proud when he was unanimously reelected as president of the Student Government Association for the 2023-2024 term last spring. Photo Courtesy of Tanner Veo
Tanner Veo felt proud when he was unanimously reelected as president of the Student Government Association for the 2023-2024 term last spring. Photo Courtesy of Tanner Veo
Four years ago, Tanner Veo felt like he was in darkness. He was living in ... Read More
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According to analysis of the most recent data by Kids Count North Dakota, child care capacity only meets 81 percent of the needs in the state with costs running close to $10,000 per year for infant day care. Here, children play a numbers game at Jasmin Child Care and Preschool in Fargo. Photo courtesy of Jasmin Child Care.
According to analysis of the most recent data by Kids Count North Dakota, child care capacity only meets 81 percent of the needs in the state with costs running close to $10,000 per year for infant day care. Here, children play a numbers game at Jasmin Child Care and Preschool in Fargo. Photo courtesy of Jasmin Child Care.
According to analysis of the most recent data by Kids Count North Dakota, child care capacity only meets 81 percent of the needs in the state with costs running close to $10,000 per year for infant day care. Here, children play a numbers game at Jasmin Child Care and Preschool in Fargo. Photo courtesy of Jasmin Child Care.
Celeste Thingvold, superintendent of Bowbells K-12 school system in the northwest corner of the state, ... Read More
Environment
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline gather Nov. 1, 2023, in Bismarck ahead of a public meeting on an environmental impact statement. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposes the pipeline, citing concerns for its water supply. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline gather Nov. 1, 2023, in Bismarck ahead of a public meeting on an environmental impact statement. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposes the pipeline, citing concerns for its water supply. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline gather Nov. 1, 2023, in Bismarck ahead of a public meeting on an environmental impact statement. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposes the pipeline, citing concerns for its water supply. (Kyle Martin/For the North Dakota Monitor)
The U.S. has a long record of extracting resources on Native lands and ignoring tribal ... Read More
“The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance” by Rebecca Clarren intertwines her Jewish ancestors’ immigration story, the United States government's history of broken treaties with tribal nations, and the Lakota’s dispossession of land into a hard-hitting ... Read More
Rebecca Clarren’s next stop on her book tour for “The Cost of Free Land” is Bismarck on April 29, where she’ll be having a reading and open discussion about the dispossession of Indigenous land. Photo by Shelby Brakken, photo courtesy of Rebecca Clarren
Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler said Republicans at the recent state convention showed they are out of touch on education. This is the first year Baesler is running for superintendent without official support from the NDGOP. Though superintendent is a ... Read More
Kirsten Baesler speaks to delegates during the 2024 NDGOP Convention at the Sanford Athletic Complex in Fargo on April 5, 2024. Baesler is running for reelection as the state’s superintendent. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
A coalition of 14 tribes across the Northern Great Plains has been awarded $135,580,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency for residential solar energy projects. “Our future depends on changing our approach to energy. All forms of energy will play a role,” ... Read More
An array of solar panels glisten in the sun outside Cannon Ball, N.D., located on the north side of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, where the grand opening for the project was held on Friday, July 26, 2019. The project was motivated in part by the controversial Dakota Access pipeline that was built over the objections of Native American leaders and others. The solar project is meant as a first step toward clean energy independence and a way to power all 12 of the reservation communities. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)
Talking about her granddaughter’s death is never easy, but it’s something Carmen White Horse said she needs to do. “I feel that this way she won’t be forgotten,” White Horse said. “She’s dead and buried now, but she won’t be forgotten.” So ... Read More
Carmen White Horse spoke about the murder of her granddaughter Reganne Chekpa during the inaugural MMIP conference held by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Rosebud Sioux Tribe. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
On March 13, I sent a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Great Plains Regional Director, Tim LaPointe, regarding the State of North Dakota’s taxation of Allottee lands on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. To date, I have ... Read More
Canva Art
A recent screening of “We Ride For Her” ignited conversations around the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis. An epidemic of more than 5,500 missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls persists across the United States, according to the Native ... Read More
At the Aug. 9, 2020 Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride, Native women bikers launch from the sacred site of Bear Butte to raise awareness about missing and murdered relatives. Photo credit/ Talli Nauman
The energy and buzz in the air is electric on the first day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the second largest nongovernmental gathering hosted by the international organization. The area around the Vienna Café in first ... Read More
Morgan Brings Plenty, Cheyenne River Sioux, gives an intervention about lawsuits targeting protesters during the NoDALP movement at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN headquarters in New York City on April 16, 2024. (Pauly Denetclaw, ICT)
Beverly “Bev” Stabber Warne often reflected on memories of her grandfather drumming and singing at the crack of dawn and at sunset. She was born in a traditional way, beside a creek surrounded by her Lakota culture, and despite living ... Read More
Bev Warne was honored for her contributions to nursing during the SDSU powwow in 2023. (Photo Courtesy of Jim Warne)
Editor’s Note: Joe Brings Plenty Sr. approved use of photos prior to publication. In death, Cole Brings Plenty – a bright light among the Lakota and Indian Country – united family, friends, relatives, tribal leaders, the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation ... Read More
On Tuesday, April 16, the casket of Cole Brings Plenty rests before three tipis representing his family tiospayes. All photos reprinted with permission of Brings Plenty family. Photo Credit/Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
