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…
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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…
Last July 3, dozens of brave young men and women rallied peacefully before a battalion of heavily armored and armed police and soldiers down the…
Five years ago when we officially removed the name of white colonial Indian massacre-er General William S. Harney from South Dakota’s highest peak and replaced it…
In this week’s White-Mansplaining file, Senator Marion Michael Rounds tells us why he thinks Congresswoman Deb Haaland, member of the Laguna Pueblo and now confirmed…
Our Legislature doesn’t care much for Indians, either. The Capitol Club couldn’t agree on toothless language acknowledging the pain we inflicted on generations of Native…
“Indian Health Service” and “effectiveness” don’t often appear in the same sentence without some negative words in between. But Rosebud Sioux President Rodney Bordeaux says…
It’s bad enough that the Legislature isn’t willing to cross the Governor and require that her Tribal Affairs Secretary occasionally report to the Legislature’s State-Tribal…
Three years ago, Representative Shawn Bordeaux (D-26A/Mission) won passage of legislation to protect Lakota students’ right to wear Native regalia at school ceremonies. This year…