On Friday April 25th, 2025, in Rapid City, South Dakota, the Lakota Art Day event will be taking place at Racing Magpie. This collaborative gathering dedicated to collective joy, artistic expression, and empowerment, this event aims to unite community members, artists, and cultural groups in highlighting and honoring Lakota creativity throughout the ancestral lands. Starting at 10 am, they will have a virtual artist lecture where the public can come join in person or listen in through Zoom. The speakers that will be speaking in the lecture will be: Mary Bordeaux (Sicangu, Oglala Lakota), Molina Two Bulls-Parker (Oglala Lakota &...

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Jason Baldes drove down a dusty, sagebrush highway earlier this month, pulling 11 young buffalo in a trailer from Colorado to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. His blue truck has painted on the side a drawing of buffalo and a calf. As the executive director of the Wind River Buffalo Initiative and Eastern Shoshone tribal member, Baldes has helped grow the number of buffalo on the reservation for the last decade. The latest count: the Northern Arapaho tribe have 97 and the Eastern Sho- shone have 118. “Tribes have an important role in restoring buffalo for food sovereignty, culture...

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MISSION - Todd County hosted their track invitational on Wednesday with a number of athletes picking up multiple championship finishes, taking little time establishing event standards to qualify for the State track meet set for the end of May. Top finishers on the girls side included Mahpiya Luta Junior Ashlan Carlow-Blount won the 400, took the 100 hurdles and tied for first in the high jump; Brooke Montgomery/ Lyman in the 100, White River’s Maleena Brave was second, Breana Aske/Jones County took the 200 and the long jump, while Dottie Mesteth/Mahpiya Luta was second, Lakota Tech’s Brandy Marshall won the...

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APR 7,2025 – APRIL 10,2025 Ziva Dull Knife was born on April 07, 2025, in Wanblee, SD to Trinity Dull Knife. and Zavion Standing Bear. Ziva made her journey to the Spirit World on April 10, 2025, in Rapid City, SD. Ziva is survived by her mother Trinity Dull Knife; her father Zavion Standing Bear; siblings Zakyiah and Zariah Dull Knife. Zalena and Zacchaeus Standing Bear; Grandparents Guy “Boss” Dull Knife, III, of Red Water; Great-grandmother Leola Eagle Heart of Kyle, SD; Stephana Standing Bear of Wanblee, SD; and numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. Ziva was preceded in death...

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AP -At least [post_excerpt].6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration. The cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks as part of the Trump administration’s deep cost-cutting effort across the federal government. But coming on the heels of a major federal boarding school investigation by the previous administration and an apology...

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Wo’ki’sku’ye – Memories, when one tackles the files, piles and boxes many memories emerge as there was a reason you put it away and at the time why, well its many days, weeks, months and years later depending on the date of the document that you sit for a bit remembering why? I know, we have saved on our computers, laptops and cell phones but having it on paper seems more real. It’s been three years since I moved into this house after losing my abode to a fire and some of the books and stuff are scorched on the...

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Frederick Augustus Douglas, a prominent 19th-century American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman, best known for his powerful advocacy against slavery and for African-American civil rights (according to Wikipedia) was quoted in The Telegraph(U.K.) the ensuing: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Absolutely and undeniably a statement of profound wisdom in my estimation. My studies in higher education, discussions with many elders I met in my lifetime of 72 years, the many books I read on the subject of self-help, my training and years of experience as a substance abuse counselor and observing...

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In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory, House of the Good Shepherd, and other Progressive Era facilities. She demonstrates that in the administration of these institutions, which involved moving Indigenous people from one location to another, everyday white Americans...

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If you were to ask someone what “medicine” means, they might point you toward the pharmacy aisle at Wal- Mart or Walgreens. Maybe they’d visualize a bottle of antibiotics, a prescription pad, a doctor’s white coat, or waiting at the clinic. In the western world, medicine is a commodity— something you acquire and pay for when you’re sick. Medicine is a product. Medicine is transactional. Medicine is often wrapped in red tape, bureaucratic billing codes, and insurance copays. But that’s not what I think about when I hear the word—pejuta (payzjue tah). In my understanding, pejuta is translated into English...

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RAPID CITY, SD — The Rapid City Arts Council (RCAC) is delighted to announce that Marty Two Bulls Jr. has been appointed as the Interim Executive Director of the organization, effective immediately. Two Bulls steps into this leadership role following his service as a dedicated member of the Board of Directors, from which he has stepped down to assume his new responsibilities. An accomplished artist and educator in Rapid City, Two Bulls brings a deep commitment to the arts, cultural equity, and community development. He is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and comes from a family of...

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