Boys from Crow Creek, Pine Ridge, and Red Cloud are playing in the Class A State Basketball Tournament in Rapid City; boys from Timber Lake, Lower…
Tag: American Indians
The Oyate for Fairness and Equal Representation (OFFER) is meeting Wednesday, March 7, at 1 p.m. CST in Rose Cordier’s office in the Rosebud Tribal…
Rep. Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) has what looks like a good American Indian rights bill in the hopper. House Bill 1252 would prohibit the state, counties, towns,…
Shannon Marvel notices one good bill among the 529 now piled into the Legislative hopper. House Bill 1223 would place a moratorium on the construction…
Senate Bill 76 proposes making it a little easier for our Native brothers and sisters to register to vote. A 2003 law requires South Dakotans registering to…
It’s pretty hard to write so much about the Legislature without thinking up ideas for good legislation of my own. I’ve offered blog bills in…
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Chairman Dave Flute says in a press release that a tribal delegation will gather at the site of the TransCanada Keystone pipeline…
While the Trump Administration tries to figure out what a national health emergency really means, South Dakota’s leaders should perhaps consider declaring a state health…
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…
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…