In August, I mentioned that Attorney General Marty Jackley signed South Dakota onto a friend-of-the-court brief in a water-rights case pitting the Agua Caliente tribe of California…
Tag: American Indians
Weekend before last, John Thune’s fatuous weekend column noted Native American Day. His latest column recognizes the opening of pheasant season as “South Dakota’s Unofficial…
Short notice: friends of racial respect and equality are holding an “Alternative Homecoming: Friday Night Rights” rally in Sioux Falls this afternoon from 5 to…
Add this to the discussion of Nicholas Black Elk at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre this evening: A proposal to make Lakota holy man…
South Dakota sorta-kinda observed its pioneering Native American Day today. Aberdeen took the day off school; Webster did not. Native American Day, like Martin Luther…
You’ve climbed the mountain; now read the book! The Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre is hosting a discussion of Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt’s record of…
Perhaps our American Indian friends can bring some civilization to the white man: American Indian tribes for decades have been able to tell federal prosecutors…
Stephanie Woodard reports that South Dakota’s Help America Vote Act Grant Board has approved the release of federal funding for satellite early voting centers in six…
Hot off the Mac—the latest Dakota Free Press Podcast! In lucky Episode #13, conservative blogger Ken Santema sits down with this liberal podcast to talk…
South Dakota Democrats working to mobilize American Indian voters and volunteers should find Donald Trump’s cruelty as effective an organizing tool on the reservations as anywhere else. Trump…