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Posts tagged as “Chamberlain”

St. Joseph’s Indian School Uses Fake Children to Raise Money

Hmm... did Annette Bosworth get a job writing fundraising letters for St. Joseph Indian School? Dr. Bosworth is now marketing example #1 that Base Connect uses to tout its political fundraising potential. On a webpage titled "Nuts & Bolts" (you…

Lakota/Dakota People Offer Honor Song from Curb in Chamberlain

The Chamberlain School Board won't even talk about allowing the Lakota members of its student body and community present a Lakota/Dakota honor song at its high school graduation ceremonies. Fine. Let's take it outside. Chamberlain alumnus, now doctoral student Nick…

Chamberlain School Board Refuses to Hear King Letter on Honor Song

Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., has put the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change's name on the line, writing the Chamberlain School Board a letter asking them to honor American Indian students' request to include a Lakota…

Bernice King to Chamberlain: Allow Lakota Honor Song at HS Graduation

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change has written a letter urging the Chamberlain School Board to allow American Indian students to sing their honor song as part of the Chamberlain High School graduation ceremony. Here's that…

Troubled For-Profit Youth Prison Company Closes Chamberlain Academy

Jessica Giard reports that Florida-based Youth Services International is closing the Chamberlain Academy, a youth detention and treatment facility in Chamberlain. This private facility, licensed by the state Department of Social Services, has housed an average of 22 juveniles over…

Red Scare: 1954 Chamberlain Mayor Threatens Indian Office Supporters

As a footnote to Toby's post on Chamberlain's persistent apartheid, consider this segment of the river city's cultural DNA, a 1954 letter from Mayor Herschel V. Melcher to Washington officials explaining local opposition to a proposal to move the Indian…