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The Oglala Sioux Tribe is the largest tribe in South Dakota. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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Former Oglala Sioux Tribe treasurer accused of theft

By Amelia Schafer
An Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Corrections vehicle photographed on July 22, 2021. The department is responsible for managing the adult and juvenile correction systems on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. (Isaac Stone Simonelli / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism)
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Man arrested after fire killed former tribal corrections officer

By Amelia Schafer
Kyle Mesteth teaches skateboarding on the Pine Ridge Reservation through his organization Ground Control and now the Pine Ridge Thorpes new skateboarding team. (Photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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Bringing skateboarding to school

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
Acres of pines cover hills in this aerial shot of the Black Hills National Forest. (Photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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The Wrap: Oglala Sioux Tribe takes steps to protect Black Hills

By ICT
Acres of pines cover hills in this aerial shot of the Black Hills National Forest. (Photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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Oglala Sioux Tribe takes steps to protect Black Hills

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
A couple stands overlooking NDN Collective's Wičaktepi Remembrance Garden in Rapid City. The garden was created to remember community members who died in fatal police-involved shootings in the city. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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Oglala Sioux Tribe asks feds to investigate law enforcement

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is the largest tribe in South Dakota. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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Oglala Sioux Tribe councilman found not guilty of rape

By Amelia Schafer
Oglala elder Richard Broken Nose questions tribal law enforcement about the 'seven' Major Crimes Act during a public safety panel in Oglala on August 22. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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'It’s like the Wild West out here’

By Amelia Schafer
A group of red dresses hang from the trees outside the Journey Museum in Rapid City. The Red Ribbon Skirt Society, founded by Lily Mendoza, has put up this display every year since 2016 to honor missing and murdered Indigenous women. (Photo by Darsha Dodge, Rapid City Journal)
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Search for Native woman’s identity reignites

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
This October 2018 photo shows Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner when he was running for tribal president. Bear Runner, is accused of driving drunk on the tribe's reservation, the only one in South Dakota that bans alcohol. A criminal complaint charges Bear Runner, with driving while intoxicated and also of threatening a man in Manderson, S.D., on May 2, 2020. (Ryan Hermans/Rapid City Journal via AP)
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Former tribal president convicted of stealing from tribe

By Shalom Baer Gee
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been operating under a shelter at home ordinance since March 2020. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)
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Tribal council member faces rape charges

By Shalom Baer Gee
Comments made on March 13 by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem caused outrage amongst Native American tribal leaders. (Photo by Darsha Dodge, Rapid City Journal)
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Tribes call for apology from South Dakota governor

By Amelia Schafer
Community members prepare to harvest a buffalo at the Thunder Valley community on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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The Wrap: Buffalo hunting, an age-old tradition with a modern twist

By ICT
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been operating under a shelter at home ordinance since March 2020. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)
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What to know about Kristi Noem's banishment from Pine Ridge

By The Associated Press
A new letter from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem requests that all nine tribes in the state be audited by the federal government following law enforcement shortages. (AP Photo/John Raoux File)
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Oglala Sioux Tribe bans South Dakota governor

By The Associated Press
Wounded Knee Massacre survivor descendants place green prayer flags in honor of the over 300 victims of the massacre. (Photo courtesy of Seth Brings Plenty)
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Wounded Knee descendants decide not to burn artifacts

By Amelia Schafer
Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out signed a new emergency proclamation into place on November 18. The Proclamation declared a State of Emergency on the Pine Ridge Reservation after continued violence. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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Lakota tribe issues State of Emergency due to high rates of violence

By Amelia Schafer
Katie Ford, NAOMI house manager, lives in the NAOMI House where she helps care of children. The NAOMI House in Oglala, S.D. is a children's shelter for Oglala Lakota children. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, Rapid City Journal)
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Lakota woman opens Pine Ridge children’s shelter

By Amelia Schafer
Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes speaks to reporters Feb. 2023 after the first day of hearings in Oglala Sioux Tribe v. United States. The tribe alleges that the United States has failed their treaty obligations by providing inadequate law enforcement funding. (Photo by Shalom Baer Gee, Rapid City Journal)
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Law enforcement issues unresolved following Oglala Lakota lawsuit

By Amelia Schafer
Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out testifies at the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 19 in support of a bill that would return 40 acres of land back to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe. (Photo courtesy of live stream from Senate meeting)
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Wounded Knee 'killing fields' one step closer to return to tribes

By Amelia Schafer
Names of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women hang inside the Red Ribbon Skirt Societies Center for Healing Prayer and Remembrance at the Racing Magpie in Rapid City. (Photo by Adam Fondren/Rapid City Journal in partnership with ICT)
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Thunder Valley takes steps toward MMIP search and rescue

By Amelia Schafer
Pansy Hawk Wing, center, embraces Pauline Ashley as Alta Hertel, right, greets Hawk Wing while Donna Gilbert, left, is on the phone hopeful of an injunction to stop the demolition of the old Sioux San Hospital which began early Thursday, April 6, on the old Sioux San campus in west Rapid City. (Photo  by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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Historic Sioux Sanatorium building comes down

By Rapid City Journal
The Oglala Sioux Tribe filed suit against the federal government alleging the United States, through its Bureau of Indian Affairs, has failed to live up to treaty obligations it has to provide adequate numbers of police officers to serve the reservation community. (Photo by Stewart Huntington/ICT)
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Tribe sues BIA over police staffing levels

By Stewart Huntington