Attorney General Marty Jackley is hitting the road for another press conference, this time in Flandreau today at 9 a.m. A.G. Jackley doesn’t tell us what the…
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Wisconsin, Texas—now North Dakota loses a court battle over a restrictive voter ID law passed by Republicans to suppress minority voters. In 2013, North Dakota’s GOP legislative majority passed…
As our tribal neighbors vow to continue their fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Yankton Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes, plus Dakota Rural Access and a…
Lakota Country Times editor Brandon Ecoffey is one of the few voices in the press who has spoken up in defense of Stacy Phelps, the former GEAR…
On Saturday, the South Dakota Democratic Party nominated renewable energy entrepreneur Henry Red Cloud for the Public Utilities Commission. Red Cloud lives and works on the Pine Ridge Reservation,…
Watertown is finally joining the 21st century and eliminating the racially insensitive aspects of its “Ki-Yi Days” homecoming celebration. Under the guidance of superintendent Dr.…
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight noticed that Hillary Clinton’s win in South Dakota’s primary mildly defied the general assumption that Bernie Sanders played best in white, rural states…
I drove through Redfield on my way home Saturday. West of town, I saw a field flagged. In town, the rail yard near the kink in US 212 was piled with…
Oglala Lakota tribal members were supposed to vote Tuesday on legalizing alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation. But on Monday, protestors convinced the Oglala Sioux Tribal council…
At its April meeting, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names put off making a decision on changing the name of Harney Peak. The main alternative name under consideration…