Governor Kristi Noem took to Facebook last Friday to acknowledge the racist, colonialist history of America’s boarding schools/concentration camps for American Indian children and the long-delayed…
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Certain tribal leaders aren’t letting the inside baseball of competing ballot question committees and fiscal notes distract them from the big policy goal we all should…
Governor Kristi Noem was happy to get press last month by announcing writer and Amazon progenitor MacKenzie Scott’s $10-million gift to support Watertown’s state-supported vo-tech…
Critics of South Dakota’s economic policies often complain that South Dakota pads its rosy employment reports by failing to count joblessness on our Indian reservations.…
Lakota journalist and publisher and South Dakota Hall of Famer Tim Giago retired from the newspaper business ten years ago. Coming up on his 87th…
Tribal activists and other people who like water and Earth got one victory yesterday as TransCanada/TC Energy finally gave up on the Keystone XL tar…
Only in South Dakota do white legislators get to cancel a committee meant to promote better interracial relations by branding its Lakota chairman as racist:…
Last year, Marty Jackley defended a white rancher who ran a tribal covid-19 checkpoint because he didn’t think white folks had to listen to tribal…
An online friend writes that he’s having an argument with a right-wing radical about the blue-state subsidization of red states. The friend says his right-wing…
KELO-TV’s report on the grassroots effort to expand Medicaid in South Dakota claims that “there’s now two groups working to get Medicaid expansion on the…