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Dear Nidobak (Friends), Although it is slow this year, Spring is here. Maybe not every day, but most days. We can at least get busy cleaning up and planting precious seeds. We can plan happy social events and enjoy the simple pleasures of this renewal of nature with the warmth of the sun on our face. With so much to do outside I like to simplify my life inside with easy simple dinners. I promised myself to visit our local farmers market and support them as much as possible,...
Looking for Love Taken from the chapter “Looking for Love” in the book Keepers of the Faith: Five Native Women Share Their Stories by Debra Fieguth. Canada’s Arctic can seem cold and desolate to people who make their home in the South, but to those whose way of life is rooted in the tundra and snow, it’s warm, familiar and secure. On May 28, 1954, Lizzie Epoo was born into an Inuit family on Patterson Island. It was nearing summer, and since the family was nomadic, Lizzie...
PINE RIDGE, SD—Nearly fifteen years ago (in August of 1998), Bruce BonFleur and his wife Marsha came to live among and serve God’s beloved Oglala Lakota Sioux people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Drugs, gangs, alcohol, violence, sickness, disease, suicide, and demons corrupt this tiny community that has seen so much since the massacre of the nea...
RAPID CITY, SD—Winning singing contests, art contests, being a model and an accomplished hoop dancer might be enough for some, but not for Delaena Rae Uses Knife, 27, of Eagle Butte, SD, who fully intends to reach her dream of becoming an astrophysicist. Uses Knife is looking forward to a summer internship with NASA and she has also been named one of five of South Dakota’s NASA Ambassadors. “It’s a surreal moment for me,” Uses Knife said. “A NASA Student Ambassador...
RIO GRANDE DEL NORTE, NM—Samuel Gomez, the war chief for Taos Pueblo, was in Washington, D.C., on March 25, as U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed a new national monument near the tribe’s reservation in northern New Mexico. The Río Grande del Norte National Monument covers more than 240,000 acres of federal land. The site includes historic Pueblo sites and petroglyphs that date back thousands of years. “This extraordinary landscape of extreme beauty and daunting harshn...
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—The Menominee Indian Economic Development Authority (“MIEDA”) of Wisconsin and Applied BioFuels Corporation (“ABF”) of Tulsa, Oklahoma announce the signing of agreement for the placement of an ABF Energy Island. MIEDA’s former Chairman Bruce Pecore, stated “the Tribe is very excited about the long term benefits of our agreement with ABF and the Energy Island will give our tribe a chance to diversify into an alternative energy project that brings new economic...
Long ago there was a beautiful Cherokee maiden named White Flower. Three braves were in love with her, Big Elk, Thunder Sky and Winter Wolf. White Flower loved all three of them equally and she could not make up her mind. She knew each of them loved her and that they were all handsome, strong and honorable and any one of them would make a good husband. She decided to test the men to find out who loved her the most and she would marry the man who won the three challenges....
Over 100 tribes are operating their own court systems, Lisa Jaeger of the Tanana Chiefs Conference said at a forum on March 27. Tribes are handling child welfare cases, domestic violence crimes and other matters, Jaeger said. Their court systems represent nearly half of the 229-federally recognized tribes in the state. “Tribal courts, especially in small, rural communities are really the first level of justice that are available to local communities,” Jaeger said at the for...
As anybody who knows anything already knows, 42 is the answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. It also happens to be the number Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play Major League baseball, wore on his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. Coincidence? I think not. I imagine everyone knows a little bit about Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947. His number is the only one retired by every team in baseball, and on...
