As Mr. Kurtz noted last week, the South Dakota Board of Geographic Names has voted unanimously to recommend changing the name of Harney Peak to Hinhan Kaga. Actually,…
Posts tagged as “American Indians”
Ken Santema reports on the Keystone XL protest held in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s visit to Watertown last week. He finds that the protesters, largely American…
Mayor Sam Kooiker is making white-tribal relations a big issue in the Rapid City mayoral campaign. In Sunday night’s televised debate with candidate and former police…
SDPB reports that U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier has ruled against a motion to dismiss the Indian voting rights lawsuit against Jackson County. American Indian plaintiffs brought this suit…
While we’re talking about ways to fight the poverty and despair that drive the high youth suicide rates on South Dakota’s Indian reservations, Mr. Kurtz notices that First…
Well, we obviously can’t elect Rand Paul President. He’ll End the Fed, and that will kill economic development on the reservations. Paul hates Indians! The Federal Reserve Bank of…
Pine Ridge English teacher Dominique Alan Fenton gets that Sioux Falls paper to run the article on youth suicide on the reservation that national advocacy website Color…
Mayor Sam Kooiker has a city and a re-election campaign to run. But he has time to tell a story or two. Kooiker has two…
Fellow English teacher Dominique Alan Fenton steps to the mic with the shockingly high numbers of youth suicide attempts on Pine Ridge: Between December 1…