Then again, maybe spending nine million dollars on Pe 'Sla won't hinder economic development for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Maybe our Lakota neighbors don't have to save up their money to create jobs on the rez. Maybe they can finally…
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Leonard and Margaret Reynolds have accepted the Rosebud Sioux tribe's bid on Pe 'Sla, the sacred 2000-acre grassland in the middle of the Black Hills. The Reynolds family was going to auction the property off to the highest bidder in…
On Wednesday, the South Dakota Supreme Court upheld the Second Circuit's decision to throw out ten sexual abuse lawsuits filed by former students of St. Paul's School in Marty. The Native American plaintiffs accused the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls,…
It's back, we're talking about the Black Hills again, and it's the right time for it to happen. —Chase Iron Eyes, September 1, 2012 Here is Pe 'Sla. It's no longer on the market. It's going to belong to all…
Translation: The Great Sioux Nation is negotiating to purchase the sacred prairie site in the middle of the Black Hills. Pe 'Sla, known also as Reynolds Prairie, is a patch of open prairie in the middle of the Black Hills.…
Charmaine White Face inspired my latest online column in South Dakota Magazine. Her public testimony to the Lawrence County Commission against the Deadwood Standard Project got me thinking about the intersecting lessons of our efforts to dig for more gold…
Lakota activists and allies from Deep Green Resistance and Occupy organizations blockaded Whiteclay, Nebraska on June 9. They are following up that action with a Women's March on Sunday, August 26, to further protest beer sellers' exploitation of the neighboring…
Matt Varilek spent the weekend hanging out with warriors at the 145th Annual Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Wacipi at Agency Village: Varilek said a few words to the crowd, joined the Sissteon Wahpeton in ceremony, and visited with numerous Dakota neighbors.…