Our children were stolen from us in past generation, forcefully assimilated or secretly buried in boarding schools under the “kill the Indian and save the Man” ideologies, and it would seem that the task to erase them has not ended under Governor Kristi Noem’s administration and leadership.
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On November 10, the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective, 2KC Media and 7th Defenders shut down an illegal KXL Man Camp for the day to remind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris of their promise to stop the KXL pipeline.
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The duration and wake of this worldwide pandemic brings uncertainty for all of us – especially for children. History teaches us that during a global crisis, children experience greater suffering. For caregivers, loss of jobs and suspension of wages means stress. Stress means a limited bandwidth for caring for children.
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The English definition of consultation is “a meeting with an expert or professional, such as a medical doctor, in order to seek advice.” In the Lakota language, wóglakA means “to speak about something.” In meeting with county commissioners, municipal, South Dakota Department of Transportation, Public schools and Federal agencies we have met the definition of consultation in both of our languages.
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As COVID-19 began to spread across the country in late March, the tribal chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe ordered checkpoints on that would limit non-reservation travelers into the Cheyenne River Indian Reservations.
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