While our Governor waits for someone else to pay for Medicaid expansion and lets a useful social service program die, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper shows us how…
Tag: American Indians
In 2013, 147 people committed suicide in South Dakota. Since December 2014, 19 young people have committed suicide just on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The Administration for Native…
A couple of years ago, South Dakota’s worst Secretary of State ever, Jason Gant, resorted to the devious trick of appealing to the understaffed Election Advisory…
After forgoing two years worth of health benefits and economic stimulus for South Dakota, Governor Dennis Daugaard may finally be surrendering the permanence and logic of the Affordable Care…
This morning I jumped on KOTA’s report that Education Secretary Melody Schopp had fired the GEAR UP staff. Bob Mercer then reported that gubernatorial chief of staff Tony…
The commentariat went ape last fall when I said Watertown should stop dressing up its kids as Indians for homecoming. Now Stu Whitney can catch heck from…
The Pennington County Democratic Party is taking a stand for indigenous rights over colonialism. In a resolution passed at their Tuesday meeting, the Pennington County…
The Sisseston school district continues to wallow in racism with its “Redmen” logo. Local American Indian youth continue a fight that made news last February to persuade…
Attorney General Marty Jackley yesterday released additional findings that attempt to exonerate the Brown County Jail of any responsibility for the death of inmate Sarah Lee Circle…
Magistrate Judge Eric J. Strawn has acquitted Trace O’Connell of disorderly conduct. Rapid City had charged O’Connell for allegedly throwing beer and racial insults at American…