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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) 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) Education

Baesler says NDGOP doesn’t reflect voters’ views on education

  • April 26, 2024

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

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) Environment 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)

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)

Northern Plains tribes get $135 million for solar power

  • April 26, 2024

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)

A coalition of 14 tribes across the Northern Great Plains has been awarded $135,580,000 by ... 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) Featured 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)

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)

MMIP conference a place for healing and hope

  • April 25, 2024

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)

 Talking about her granddaughter’s death is never easy, but it’s something Carmen White Horse said ... Read More

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“We Ride For Her” film sparks action to combat the MMIP crisis

  • April 23, 2024

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

Future generations protect UNDRIP

  • April 22, 2024

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)

Lakota woman leaves behind powerful legacy

  • April 19, 2024

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)

Cole Brings Plenty’s last breath here marks his first breath in Spirit World, funeral unites community

  • April 18, 2024

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

Standing Rock author writes about path to heal from generational trauma in A Council of Dolls

  • April 17, 2024

Mona Susan Power reveals an ancestral story of healing and strength in her latest novel “A Council of Dolls.”  It tells of three Native Yanktonai women as they navigate through the perils of the Indian boarding schools, assimilation and the massacre ... Read More

Mona Susan Power said she hopes A Council of Dolls inspires Indigenous readers to begin healing from the past. Photo Credit/Ted Hall, courtesy of Mona Susan Power

Cheyenne River Youth Project purchases land near Bear Butte

  • April 17, 2024

A 35-year-old, Native-led nonprofit organization is taking steps toward reuniting youth with sacred sites. On April 11, the Cheyenne River Youth Project announced that it had purchased 40 acres of land adjacent to Bear Butte State Park in Meade County, South ... Read More

Bear Butte is one place in the Black Hills where “many of our important ceremonies happen.” Photo credit/ Talli Nauman

Changing the narrative, one photo at a time

  • April 16, 2024

Sitting in a photography course at Black Hills State University, Eunice Straight Head was the only Indigenous person in the room. Being the only Indigenous student was intimidating, but Black Hills State University photography professor Steve Babbitt sat the Cheyenne River ... Read More

Eunice Straight Head sits for a photo inside their apartment in Rapid City with a variety of artwork pieces they've created. (photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)

Water from arsenic-laced wells could protect tribal land from wildfires

  • April 15, 2024

With decades of experience, Reno Red Cloud knows more than anyone about water on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. As climate change makes fire season on the reservation — which covers more than 2 million acres — more ... Read More

A sign entering Pine Ridge reservation. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)