Seth Tupper reports that the U.S. Forest Service opposes a bill sponsored by Senator John Thune to speed a land swap between South Dakota and Uncle Sam…
Tag: Black Hills
John Tsitrian celebrates Black Elk Peak as a better name for South Dakota’s highest point than its prior colonialist name, Harney Peak. He looks the Governor’s projected…
After spending the evening with a lot of angry white Aberdonians afraid that The Brown Man is coming to take their land (and listening to…
Deadwood recognizes that it needs to give non-gamblers more reasons to visit. I’ve suggested developing opportunities for hiking, biking and other outdoor activities that would appeal to families and adventurers.…
Lightning set Crow Peak on fire over a week ago. As of 8:30 p.m. MDT last night, the fire had burned 1,677 acres—2.6 square miles. In…
Build a wall? Heck, southern Black Hills folks don’t even want to build a fence: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is installing barbed-wire fence…
Back in 2012, when Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed funding the Rushmore Connector Trail between the Mickelson Trail at Hill City and Mount Rushmore, I said it sounded like…
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…
Seth Tupper offers a powerful profile of Roy Jeffs, son of convicted child rapist and religious despot Warren Jeffs. Roy Jeffs lived—or should we say was held prisoner?—at…
Four tribes—the Shakopee Mdewankanton, Crow Creek, Rosebud, and Standing Rock—worked for three years to purchase Pe’ Sla, the sacred grassland in the middle of the…