The Vatican has returned 62 indigenous artifacts to Canada, 100 years after they were taken from tribes to appear in a missionary museum in Rome. The items were given by Pope Leo XIV to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), which says it plans to return them to their original native communities. The move comes three years after Pope Francis issued a historic apology to Canada's First Nations for the church's role in the "genocide" and suppression of indigenous identity through the residential schools programme. A joint statement from the Vatican and the CCCB says the Pope "desires that...

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PINE RIDGE - The boys basketball season officially opened Monday, December 1 across the state of South Dakota; Pine Ridge is ranked #6 in the preseason SD Prep Media Basketball poll with 68 points, SF Christian is #1 with 16 first place votes and 176 points, Lennox is 2nd with 135 votes while West Central is 3rd with two first place votes and 127 points. Teams included in the top 10 are Clark/Willow Lake, Hamlin, St. Thomas More, Groton Area, RC Christian and Dakota Valley with CEB and Mahpiya Luta getting a vote. In early October, Pine Ridge was selected...

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WATERTOWN - This was the 29th year that Dan Snethen was the Oral Interp coach at Little Wound high school, it was the first time the team had qualified students in all seven of the Oral Interp categories and on Friday and Saturday in Watertown, Little Wound students earned Superior awards in six of the seven categories, earning Little Wound a Team Excellence award for the second year in a row. Friday in Watertown, the State Oral Interp Festival started off with Serious Interpretation, Devin Brown, a senior earned a Superior award; next up was Reader’s Theater and Little Wound...

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December 4, 2025. Waniyetu Wi is the name of the ninth full moon of the Lakotan year. This year, that full moon occurred on Thursday afternoon, December 4, at 4:14 Pine Ridge Time. Waniyetu is defined by Buechel as “winter; a year," and Waniyetu Wi as "the winter moon.” As such, waniyetu figures into the meanings of four periods of time: a night, a month, a season, and a year. The winter season is associated with the north direction. In Lakotan cosmology, quadruplet brothers established the four directions. By birth order, their names are Yata, Eya, Yanpa, and Okagha. They...

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CUSTER - Lakota Tech girls had 29 wrestlers compete Saturday at the Bill Young Invitational girls wrestling tournament in Custer, the Tatanka girls finished second out of 17 teams with Ivan Black Elk taking the championship at 100, Wani Birdshead was second at 110 while Jasmine Tibbits was third at 100, Jaynie Perkins was third at 105 and Brandy Marshall was third at 120. A number of wrestlers placed fourth including Cadence Jack, Riley No Moccasin, Wetu White Dress, Aleighna Red Cloud, Max Thunder Hawk and River Respects Nothing. Sadie Bird Necklace and Sadie Rogers placed sixth. “Our first meet...

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ROSEBUD, SD -- The South Dakota Community Foundation (SDCF) recently awarded a ,000 Native American Education Fund grant to Rosebud Scholarship Fund. Funding will support scholar program which support highly motivated Sicangu Lakota students who want to make a difference in their community. "We cannot thank SDCF enough for trusting our organization with this grant award. It feels extremely validating of the hard work we have done for students,” stated Troy Blake, Rosebud Scholarship Fund Executive Director. “This award will allow us to focus more on the quality of student programming and support. Sometimes all it takes is for a...

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JAN 23, 1953 - NOV 16, 2025 Mary Jane Woodard (Peters), Tahca Luzahan Win, came into this world on January 23, 1953 to Jacob Earl Peters and Ora (Dubray) Peters. Mary began her journey on the White Path of Stars on November 16, 2025, surrounded by the love and prayers of her family, relatives and loved ones in Rapid City, SD. Mary is survived by her son, Vincent Peters; daughters, Cherie (Keith McClain) Peters and Katherine (Bennett Kelly) Williams all of Rapid City, SD; grandsons, Virgil (Delenna Kerr) Peters, Christopher Peters, and Richard Peters; granddaughters, Miquela (Michael Sharpe) Peters, Taylin...

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TULSA, Okla. – Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Cherokee Nation filed a federal lawsuit in United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma naming Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt; his recently appointed special prosecutor, Russ Cochran; and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation as defendants. The lawsuit argues that Gov. Stitt lacks the authority to appoint a special prosecutor for wildlife crimes on tribal land. It also claims his directives to ODWC violate tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction, as affirmed by the Supreme Court’s 2020 McGirt ruling. Leaders from the state's three largest tribes reacted to the continued...

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