
Fed’s tag $25 million for Bison restoration; Tribes celebrate ‘returning a relative to its rightful place”
By Grace Terry Native Sun News Today Correspondent | March 30, 2023
DC—Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland announced a new strategy on March 3, 2023, to restore bison populations. She issued Secretarial Order 3410 which created a comprehensive restoration and resilience framework, incorporating Native tribes’ expertise to revive the historically significant species. The strategy includes...

Native student athletes receive racist insults
By Grace Terry Native Sun News Today Correspondent | March 30, 2023
For as long as any living person can remember, racist verbal attacks against Native student athletes have been common at school sponsored sporting events in Indian Country. Sunny Red Bear is Director of Racial Equity at the NDN Collective, an indigenous-led organization in Rapid City,...

Barney People’s Memorial
Christopher A. Piña Native Sun News Today Staff Writers | March 30, 2023
RAPID CITY —At approximately 1:34 pm on March 26 of last year, Rapid City police were called to an abandoned house at 720 James Warren Drive after reports of a possible burglary. The police released a dog on a Lakota man, Barney Peoples, and when...

Shunka wakan: the sacred dog Part 1 of 2
By James Giago Davies Native Sun News Today Managing Editor | March 30, 2023
Around 6000 years ago wild horses roamed the plains of Kazakhstan in South Central Siberia. This period is credited as being the first time humans took to riding horses instead of just hunting them and eating them. In the millennia to follow a wealth of...

COLT Calls for action on tribal water rights
March 23, 2023
BROWNING, MT—The Biden-Harris Campaign promised tribal nations that, among other things, their Administration would “Ensure fulfillment of federal trust and treaty obligations including by working to address chronic underfunding of unmet federal obligations to Indian Country.” See Biden-Harris Plan for Tribal Nations - Joe Biden...