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…
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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…
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 police response to an armed suicide threat at the St. Joseph Indian School in Chamberlain Monday shows more reasons that this year's House Bill 1087, the school gunslinger law, creates unnecessary risks at our schools. The Chamberlain Police Department…
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…