In January 2013, Judge Gene Paul Kean dismissed the state's flimsy case against of Shirley Schwab and Brandon Taliaferro for witness tampering and other charges. Last December, Judge Kean ordered the expungement five of the counts on which Taliaferro was…
Posts tagged as “Native Americans”
Following the bad precedent it set just before members of the Class of 2013 collected their diplomas, the Chamberlain School District has confirmed its misguided and marginalizing decision to keep a Lakota honor song out of its commencement ceremony for…
Without even getting to a vote, administrators in Chamberlain have put themselves back squarely in the middle of contentious issue: whether to include a Lakota honor song at Chamberlain High's commencement ceremony. If the debate continues along the lines that…
Apparently Tim Giago prefers empty incompetence to serious policy discussion. In a Huffington Post article eagerly touted by the Republican spin machine, Giago says that even though he's had more substantive policy conversations with Matt Varilek than with Kristi Noem,…
Lakota holy man Black Elk claimed to have had a vision when he was nine years old. It was 1872 or '73. He dreamed/imagined/saw himself standing on Harney Peak, the center of the world. He saw the "hoop" of his…
The Rapid City Journal has made yet another questionable editorial choice. Weekly columnist Jim Kent submitted a column inspired by a conversation about The Thick Dark Fog, a documentary about the abuse and cultural oppression one Lakota man experienced in…
Kristi Noem has a job. Kristi Noem is not showing up to do her job. We should fire Kristi Noem from her job. South Dakota's current Congresswoman barely participated in House Agriculture Committee hearings until the Democrat who wants to…
TransCanada has proposed yet another modification to its Keystone XL route through Nebraska. Remember that TransCanada told us last year that re-routing Keystone XL was "impossible." As experts on the white man's forked tongue, Native Americans are offering some of…