The Sioux Nation Shopping Center, the Pine Ridge Reservation's only grocery store, runs some pretty stale stock photos on its home page: Maybe I'm just racist, but I get the feeling there might be a disconnect between the Sioux Nation…
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Feminist blog Jezebel designates South Dakota one of the worst places in America for women: South Dakota is the seventh [worst] state on the list for a variety of reasons. First, health services for women are few and far between.…
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…
Our Christmas driving took us across the Pine Ridge Reservation, where we had the chance to listen to KILI Radio, possibly the most interesting and most local radio station in South Dakota. On Friday morning, a lively and occasionally hilarious…
Mark Tilsen, president of Native American Natural Foods, testified before the Senate Banking Committee on November 10 about economic development in Native American communities. (As far as I can tell, unlike what happens at hearings with Rep. Kristi Noem, Tilsen…
Our Native American neighbors post a couple of positive cultural notes this week: The Red Cloud Indian School's Heritage Center has received a $110,000 grant from ArtPlace, a collaboration of the federal government and private foundations promoting the arts as…
Little Wound teacher Dan Snethen (right) and student in "Reservation Realities" The South Dakota State Film Festival happens this week, Thursday through Sunday, in Aberdeen. My friend and neighbor Dan Snethen is taking nine of his students from Little Wound…
[Commenter turns columnist! The spirit moves friend and frequent blog conversationalist Shane Gerlach from Yankton to contribute his thoughts on South Dakota's American Indian population. Yesterday I published Part 1 of his essay, listing many of the grim statistics on…