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Tamara St. John (left) shows South Dakota Public Broadcast producer Jackie Hendry (right) around the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Administration Building on Nov. 3, 2024, in Agency Village, S.D. St. John is a member of the South Dakota Native Tourism Alliance. (Photo: Jordyn Henderson / South Dakota Public Broadcasting)
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Native Tourism Alliance to support entrepreneurs

By South Dakota News Watch
The Indian Health Services clinic on March 23, 2024, in Fort Thompson, S.D., on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation. Like many medical facilities in rural South Dakota, it does not provide care on nights, weekends or holidays. The nearest emergency room is 40 minutes away. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch)
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Access to health care limited in rural and reservation areas

By South Dakota News Watch
Students line up for recess at Sapa Un Jesuit Academy in St. Francis, S.D., on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. The K-8 school has about 45 students, with the goal of preparing them to succeed in high school by emphasizing their strengths and interests. (Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch)
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Hard realities hinder Rosebud educational goals

By South Dakota News Watch
Youth mentor Coleman Eagle Elk used a Native American drum to help build a musical and emotional bridge between himself and a boy he is mentoring as part of the new Friends of the Children program in Rapid City. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch)
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New Native mentoring program builds lifetime bonds

By South Dakota News Watch
The Dupree School District serves about 365 students in grades K-12 and 100 percent of the students are considered “economically disadvantaged” by the state. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch)
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Tribe bans educators over child abuse allegations

By South Dakota News Watch
Holly Albers and Evans Flammond Sr. stroll outside the Whiteclay Makerspace in Whiteclay, Neb., an artists studio and sales space that is housed in a former liquor store just over the border from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. (Photo by Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch)
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Native artists travel new paths to prosperity

By South Dakota News Watch
Head of school Mary Bowman, at right, leads the students at the Oceti Sakowin Community Academy in the “Four Directions” song, which they sing in a circle each morning prior to classes in Rapid City, S.D. Bowman also reminds children each day to treat themselves and one another with kindness and respect. (Photo: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch)
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South Dakota Native leaders focus on educational reforms

By South Dakota News Watch
Journey On team members, all of them Indigenous and many of them experienced with homelessness themselves, work the streets of Rapid City wearing signature green apparel to forge personal connections with homeless people in the interest of public safety. (Photo courtesy of Journey On)
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New focus on homeless Indigenous needs in South Dakota

By South Dakota News Watch
Attendees fill out voter registration forms while their families wait with them at the Oceti Vote Fest in Rapid City on Oct. 22, an event to foster greater voter registration and involvement in Indian Country in South Dakota. (Photo courtesy Lakota People's Law Project)
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Push for greater Native voting access could impact governor race

By South Dakota News Watch
Elementary students celebrate graduation in 2021 at Wakanyeja Tokeyahci, a privately funded Lakota immersion school on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Wakanyeja Tokeyahci)
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Despite defeat, backers of Native education reform press forward

By South Dakota News Watch
This artist's rendering shows plans for 3D designed, 2,000-square-foot homes completed at left and still under construction on the right for a proposed housing development in Texas. (Photo courtesy ICON)
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Tribal college part of NASA plan

By South Dakota News Watch
About 100 people, many of them Native Americans, held a protest in Pierre in September to push for improved teaching of Native American history and culture in South Dakota schools and to decry removal of Native references from proposed social studies standards. (Photo courtesy of DRG Media Group via SD News Watch)
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South Dakotans overwhelmingly support teaching of Native history, culture

By South Dakota News Watch
Tribal officials and citizens of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe in Nevada gather during the grand opening of a marijuana dispensary opened in February 2021. (Photo courtesy Tribal Cannabis Consultants via South Dakota News Watch)
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Marijuana legalization opens new economic path for South Dakota tribes

By South Dakota News Watch
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Pandemic safety net: Owning a home

By South Dakota News Watch