Emma "Pinky" Iron Plume opened Pinky's, the only store in Manderson, South Dakota, thirty years ago. She continues to run the store on BIA Highway 33 today, providing her neighbors and folks from the nearby elementary school and the Oglala…
Posts tagged as “Pine Ridge”
GOP spin machine Pat Powers completely ignores the story of fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth committing yet another crime by spam-soliciting and accepting a campaign contribution from a foreign national. But Pat Powers's least favorite gubernatorial candidate, Lora Hubbel,…
One of the biggest obstacles to business and housing development on the Pine Ridge reservation is fractionated land ownership. In 1887, Congress deeded tribal land to individual Indian owners. Those original 80- to 160-acre allotments have been sliced and diced…
The Free Lakota Bank, which still isn't registered to do business in South Dakota, was supposed to be opening a new dollar store in Pine Ridge sometime last month (or maybe this month, or who knows when) where people could…
So much for Indian-White reconciliation. Earlier this month Judge Karen Schreier dismissed Brooks v. Gant, an Indian voting-rights lawsuit brought by residents of the Pine Ridge reservation. The dismissal came only because the filing of the lawsuit forced Secretary of…
Every school and media outlet in South Dakota devotes too much time and resources to basketball. But a Watertown neighbor takes particular umbrage to find Pine Ridge spending money to send its girls to the state basketball tournament in comfort:…
Hat tip to Larry Kurtz! American Indians have problems with poverty, unemployment, and other social ills. (Violent conquest can do that to a people.) But something in South Dakota makes our Indians poorer than Indians elsewhere in America. What gives?…
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…