Lakota Man Accuses Hospital of Healthcare Hate Crime


By Evelyn Red Lodge Rapid City, South Dakota – A member and resident of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota came home from a 14-day stay in the hospital to find he had been horribly mutilated. Three Ks can be easily seen carved or burned into his abdomen in the shocking photograph taken [...]read more

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