The Rapid City Journal reprints an article from the Exberliner about the awkward freedom-of-speech case of Yankton Sioux artist Robert Packard. We can't call it a First-Amendment case, because world-traveling Packard isn't in the U.S.; he's in Germany, where he's…
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If there are racists in South Dakota, Larry Pressler is taking a dig at them. The Independent Senate candidate today announced that his first action if elected would be to sponsor legislation to create an international North American indigenous holocaust…
The South Dakota Libertarian Party is inviting all interested parties to participate in their hastily called convention on August 9. What must one do to participate? The SDLP offers this guidance on its homepage and on a Facebook event page…
...and becomes a state legislator? Aberdeen attorney Brandon Taliaferro did a good job of keeping his compulsively vocal new client Annette Bosworth quiet at her arraignment last Monday. Now if Taliaferro could just get that memo to the spokesman to…
I'm spending my Fourth of July in exile from the land I love. There will be no fireworks for us tonight; we saw our fireworks on Tuesday, Canada Day, over English Bay in Vancouver. We will spend our America Day…
Via Northern Plains News, the Black Hills Knowledge Network reports Census data showing increased racial diversity in South Dakota's population. The Native American population is holding at 8.9% of the population, while Hispanics and blacks are increasing their population shares.…
Tasiyagnunpa Livermont reminds us that returning the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation as a gesture of religious justice and restoration of treaty is not as simple as the wasicu writing this blog may think it is: The Black…
China probably built your computer, your cell phone, and your air conditioner. So come find out who's keeping you cool and connected Thursday at the Madison Public Library, when former history professor Eve Fisher will present "A Revolution Is Not…