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The U.S. District Court of South Dakota ruled the U.S. government has a duty to provide law enforcement to the Oglala Sioux Tribe according to treaties from the 1800s.
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The 8,500-square-foot arts facility opened on May 20. Hip-hop artist Talon Bazille Ducheneaux has already tried out the building's studio.
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The Oglala Sioux Tribe is suing the U.S. Department of Interior and its agencies for violating treaty obligations to fund law enforcement on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
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Several organizations are working to assist people in south central South Dakota still dealing with the effects of a pair of powerful winter storms.
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The town hall meetings, two of which are occurring in November, will strike an educational, empowering tone.
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The Oglala Sioux and Rosebud Sioux tribes will receive a total of $68 million in federal grants for high-speed internet infrastructure.
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This Spring, Little Wound School in the Pine Ridge Reservation released the seven-episode audio series "Heart of All."The Lakota Oral History project features dozens of interviews with elders in the community. The goal was to preserve oral traditions of Lakota people and share them with a new generation.
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Charlie Nicole Cuny created Lakota Art Boxes, a free box full of art supplies, during the pandemic. She then mails or personally delivers them to families on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where she lives.
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Months before the Rapid City demonstrations, city leaders and others were already organizing a tour of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Though many people make the 80-mile drive from Pine Ridge to Rapid City on a weekly basis, the same often isn't true for citizens of Rapid City. The tour was intended as the first step toward better relations between the two communities.
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In a new episode, elders remember land lost to "the bombing range," a 341,726 acre portion of the Pine Ridge Reservation that was seized by the Department of the Army during World War II.