Remember Crow Creek Sioux tribal chairman Brandon Sazue's call to boycott Chamberlain in response to that school district's continuing refusal to allow a Lakota honor song at its high school graduation? It's on... at least for Sazue: Crow Creek Sioux…
The good folks of Chamberlain held their high school graduation ceremony yesterday. Students sat through the standard White/Western formalities organized by the majority culture inside the high school. After that ceremony, students received a second ceremonial recognition from members of…
Area students and a Lakota/Dakota drum group will honor all Chamberlain High School graduates with a Native song at Sunday's graduation ceremony. They'll do it outside the high school as graduates leave the building. For not accepting that honor song…
The Chamberlain School District remains committed to honoring the dominant European conquering culture over that of its large American Indian minority population. Last night the Chamberlain school board voted to uphold tradition and again reject inclusion of a Lakota honor…
The Chamberlain school board continues to dither, receiving a student petition Tuesday requesting that the school include an Indian honor song in its graduation ceremony May 19 but putting off a response and decision until its May 13 meeting. The…
Chamberlain correspondent and Indian rights activist James Cadwell sends distressing news about his local school district's intolerance of its Indian constituents' cultural practices. Cadwell reports that, after three years of requests, the Chamberlain school district continues to forbid the inclusion…
Last year the Chamberlain school board rejected a request to include an American Indian honor song in its high school graduation ceremony, citing tradition and concern about respecting the separation of church and state. Yes, because South Dakotans are passionate…
A lot of South Dakotans will subject themselves to the strains of "Pomp and Circumstance" today. For some of our neighbors, this Western tune is more of a strain than others. Thus, for the second year, the Rapid City school…
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