In another difficult case dealing with the welfare of a child, the South Dakota Supreme Court yesterday ruled unanimously in favor of the Department of Social Services over a Native American father from California. Three years ago, DSS took a…
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Remember the controversial NPR report last October that investigated inequities in South Dakota's treatment of Native American children in our foster care system? Well, that radio journalism was good enough to win reporter Laura Sullivan and her NPR producers a…
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…
Debra White Plume says her granddaughter was sickened by old meat sold by the Sioux Nation Shopping Center, the only grocery store on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In commentary on Censored News, White Plume says the problem is part capitalist…
Around 150 people are expected to attend the Black Hills Bakken Conference here in Spearfish today and tomorrow. I'd be interested in attending as well to hear all the tarry-eyed oil-boom boosters tickle our fantasies of petro-wealth and asking if…
The Lakota blogosphere lit up yesterday with a curious call to action yesterday. Brenda Norrell of Censored News reports that activists on the Pine Ridge reservation formed a blockade near Wanblee to stop two trucks carrying equipment for the Keystone…
...but what about long-term quality in teaching? The GOP House leadership's ego trip didn't get in the way of Senate Bill 139, a measure expanding the state's support for Teach for America on South Dakota's Indian reservations. SB 139 was…
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has mapped out the specific area around which TransCanada must reroute its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. The hope is that, if Keystone XL must be built, we can at least prevent TransCanada from…