South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has criticized both the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge reservations for “unlawful” checkpoints set up as pandemic response efforts to the threat of COVID-19. Noem addressed letters to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe May 8 confronting them for establishing checkpoints onContinue Reading

Fewer Native American and Alaska Native students are going to college. Data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics show national enrollment numbers for Native Americans and Alaska Natives have dropped 30.8% from 2009-10 to 2017-18 (12-month enrollment). Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) 2009-2019 fall enrollment numbers follow theContinue Reading

Co-written by Hayley Wells and Jenna Makes Good. Food insecurity and poor diet contribute to many health issues facing Native people today.  Growing healthy food at home can help close nutritional gaps. There are only a few things that need to be known in order to successfully yield your ownContinue Reading

Ingredients 3 lbs moose roast  3 cup beef broth  3 yellow onions 2 cup celery  4-5 potatoes  3 large carrots  6 cloves garlic  1/2 stick butter  1/4 cup salt 1/4 cup pepper 1 Tbsp chili powder 1 Tbsp cornstarch  Fresh rosemary Fresh thyme Instructions 1. If frozen let roast sitContinue Reading

What does it mean to be Native? Well, most would think feathers, pow wows, drumming and living in teepees. Now Natives are all different; we come from different tribes and blood quantum. But we have been letting the idea of Blood Quantum control our ideas of what “Native” is. WeContinue Reading

Part 2 — The National Endowment for the Humanities, “Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” has opened the conversation between this generation and the previous generation about what occurred during the time of the Boarding School Era. Which is where we start to ask our grandparents about whatContinue Reading

Association of Independent Institutions(A.I.I.) Awards Women’s Basketball: First Team A.I.I. Conference:  Janee Bates, Senior Honorable Mention A.l.l. Conference: Odessa Begay, Freshman  Champion of Character: Janee Bates, Senior  Men’s Basketball: First Team A.l.l. Conference:  Nakia Hendricks, Senior Honorable Mention A.l.l. Conference: Bryon Elledge, Senior  Champion of Character: Elias Her Many Horses,Continue Reading

Ingredients 1 filet salmon 1/2 yellow onion  3 cloves garlic  1/2 cup brown sugar  1/2 butter salt  crushed chili pepper fresh rosemary  tin foil Instructions Wash salmon and cut in to serving size pieces  Place each piece of salmon on its own piece of tinfoil that can fold over andContinue Reading