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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 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 Featured

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

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 Education 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

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

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

  • April 17, 2024

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

Mona Susan Power reveals an ancestral story of healing and strength in her latest novel ... Read More

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

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

Cheyenne River Youth Project purchases land near Bear Butte

  • April 17, 2024

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

A 35-year-old, Native-led nonprofit organization is taking steps toward reuniting youth with sacred sites. On ... 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) Featured 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)

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)

Changing the narrative, one photo at a time

  • April 16, 2024

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)

Sitting in a photography course at Black Hills State University, Eunice Straight Head was the ... Read More

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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)

Fourth tribe bans Gov. Kristi Noem

  • April 12, 2024

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe announced it joined four other Lakota tribes in banning South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.  Noem’s banishment was announced through a statement from the tribal council on April 11 in response to a string of allegations made by ... Read More

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is the fourth tribe to ban South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)

A Native Perspective On The April 8 Solar Eclipse

  • April 11, 2024

Turtle Island, as most Indigenous peoples of North America call it, will witness another solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, of more totality than the previous annular one of October 2023. While many Americans are finalizing their plans to be in the path of ... Read More

Roger Amos, author and Neshoba County native, writes about his Indigenous ancestors’ solar eclipse tales as the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse event approaches. Photo by Bryan Goff on Unsplash

North Dakota judge dismisses Dakota Access Pipeline protestor’s case, recognizes ‘horrific injuries’ sustained in DAPL resistance

  • April 10, 2024

A federal judge in North Dakota dismissed Sophia Wilansky’s claims that law enforcement used excessive force when targeting her with a grenade during the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict. Wilansky vowed she would fight the recent ruling on the police action ... Read More

Sophia Wilansky stands near the Cannonball River during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests on the Standing Rock Reservation in 2016. Photo Courtesy/Facebook

Healing the Children of Horse Nations

  • April 8, 2024

Reporter Nancy Spears is President of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance. Surrounded by prairie grasses and dogwood trees, a half-dozen young people ages 10 through 16 clasped hands at the Forward Stride ranch on a muggy morning last summer. The tribal ... Read More

Rocky makes a special connection with Oso at Forward Stride ranch near Beaverton, Oregon. The ranch provides Indigenous youth with equine therapy. Photo by Josué Rivas.