A temporary victory?
By Talli Nauman
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor | December 7, 2016
FT. YATES, N. D. ––As thousands of veterans seeking to halt Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction gathered here to protect Oceti Sakowin Camp participants from Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s order to disband by Nov. 4; the federal government announced its concurrence with the Standing Rock Sioux...
Sioux San: A case of legalized land theft
By James Giago Davies
Native Sun News Today Correspondent | December 7, 2016
RAPID CITY –– In the spring of 1948 the US Congress passed an act that authorized “the Secretary of the Interior to make certain dispositions of the Sioux Sanatorium Farm.” They were urged to this action by the City of Rapid City, the South Dakota...
Trump advisors aim to privatize oil-rich Indian reservations
By Valerie Volcovici
The New York Times | December 7, 2016
WASHINGTON –– Native American reservations cover just 2 percent of the United States, but they may contain about a fifth of the nation’s oil and gas, along with vast coal reserves. Now, a group of advisors to President-elect Donald Trump on Native American issues wants...
Pipeline to Indian law for students needed
By James Giago Davies
Native Sun News Today Correspondent | December 7, 2016
PINE RIDGE –– There is actually a pipeline desperately needed in Lakota country, not the Keystone XL, and not the Dakota Access, but, ironically, one that would combat such threats to the Oceti Sakowin in the future. Michigan State Professor of Law, Matthew Fletcher, considered...
Montana sees increased Medicaid enrollment among Indians
By Clara Caufield,
Native Sun News Today correspondent | December 7, 2016
LAME DEER, Mont. –– On November 30, outgoing Director Richard Opper, Montana Department of Health and Human Services (DPHHS) said that he saved his last official trip for the best purpose – visiting the Northern Cheyenne Reservation to congratulate newly elected tribal president L. Jace...
Mapping project reveals unexpected uranium company claims active in the Black Hills
By Talli Nauman
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor | December 7, 2016
RAPID CITY –– Results of an exhaustive, two-year scientific study released Nov. 29 show active mine claims of uranium mining companies in unsuspected areas near Black Hills population centers. The study maps almost 2,100 uranium company claims under federal jurisdiction. Some 700 of them are...
Vision Fund Committee makes funding recommendations
RAPID CITY –– The Citizen Vision Fund Committee has finalized its recommendations for funding in the 2017 Vision Fund process. The Committee will present its...
Pipeline builders issue insulting press release on DAPL
RAPID CITY –– While Lakota country commends President Obama for his December 4 decision to delay Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction on Army Corps of...
2016 Ag Summit focuses on strategies for surviving current agriculture economy
BROOKINGS –– Shrinking margins in production agriculture will be the focus of the 2016 Ag Summit which will be held in Brookings Dec. 13, 2016,...