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The back of Kyle Mesteth's vest reads "Lakota Skateboarding," as Mesteth is the Pine Ridge Thorpes skateboarding coach. (Photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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The Wrap: Pine Ridge High School skateboarding team

By ICT
A group of Oglala Sioux gather by the grave of James Cornman (at lower left) at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery in Pennsylvania. Three Oglala students who died at Carlisle - Fannie Charging Shield , Samuel Flying Horse, and James Cornman - were among 11 Native youths disinterred from the Carlisle cemetery starting Sept. 6, 2024, to be repatriated to their homelands. Pictured are, from left, Justin Pourier, Anna Diaz, Steve Durbay Jr., Steve Durbay Sr., and Jerome LeBeaux. (Photo by Charles Fox, special to ICT)
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Home from Carlisle: A father’s wish fulfilled after more than 130 years

By Charles Fox
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
Marcus Palmier walked 22 miles during the Oglala Sioux Tribe Veterans Powwow to raise awareness for the 22 veterans who die by suicide every day. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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Oglala Lakota veteran walks 22 miles to raise awareness for veteran suicide

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
Bo Sits Poor and sister Tawny Eagle Louse pose next to an age-progressed photo of their missing aunt, Delema Lou Sits Poor. Sits Poor was last seen in 1974 heading to a friends house after school. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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50 years later, Lakota girl still missing

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
Sharay Brewer asks the children in the Martin Grade School to give her thumbs up if they understand the lesson. Hiyá is Lakota for no. The Peaceful Means program championed by Nebraska researcher Katie Edwards wants to stop sexual violence on the Pine Ridge Reservation by educating school-age children. (Photo by University of Nebraska Communications)
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University opens sexual assault prevention program on Pine Ridge

By Amelia Schafer
Maliah Weston (left) and Tailey Pourier (right) frame up a shot on the set of "We Got Next." Both teens worked creatively on making the short set on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (Photo courtesy of MTV)
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MTV gives a platform to Oglala Lakota teens

By Amelia Schafer
A forest in the backwoods west of Pine Ridge, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Reservation near where 3-year-old Karson Pourier was found Nov. 28, 2023, can be seen in this photo. (Courtesy of Ashley "Joe" Iteska)
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Finding Karson

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
Lakota children gather and sing around a drum during the ground blessing for the new Maȟpíya Lúta, formerly Red Cloud Indian School, Heritage Center on Sept. 14 in Pine Ridge. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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Ground blessing marks Pine Ridge's first stand-alone museum

By Amelia Schafer
Oglala Lakota musician, Stella Standingbear, took home two awards from the third annual International Indigenous Hip Hop Award Show in Vancouver, Canada in August. (Photo courtesy of Stella Standingbear)
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Rising Lakota musician ‘Hittin’ Home Runs’

By Amelia Schafer
Jojo Bapteise Whiting, center, plays 23-year-old Bill in the award-winning film, "War Pony," being released July 28, 2023, in the United States. The film, co-directed by Elvis Presley's granddaughter, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, won the Caméra d’Or for best first feature at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The film, based at Pine Ridge, features Whiting and LaDanian Crazy Thunder, who plays 12-year-old Matho.  (Photo courtesy of Momentum Pictures)
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‘War Pony’: Dark tale from the rez

By Sandra Hale Schulman
Kai Cylee, a member of the band “The Stray Breakfast Kids, plays the drums on Wednesday at the “Rock The Rez” summer camp at the Pine Ridge Girls School in Porcupine, Pine Ridge. All students are placed into groups for instructional practice time where they form their own bands. (Photo by Maya Giron/Rapid City Journal in partnership with ICT)
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Rock the Rez, empowering Indigenous youth through music

By Amelia Schafer
Keith Braveheart, Oglala Lakota, speaks to the National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson as she meets with artists in Rapid City. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT and the Rapid City Journal)
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National Endowment for the Arts chair visits Native communities

By Amelia Schafer
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
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
A girl wears her traditional regalia and sits on a star quilt on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at the first-ever Victory Day Celebration Parade on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to commemorate the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. (Photo by Maya Giron/Rapid City Journal in partnership with ICT)
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‘A proud day to be Lakota’: Pine Ridge hosts first Victory Day celebration

By Amelia Schafer
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
Marchers converge on Wounded Knee from four directions on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the South Dakota town by American Indian Movement activists. (Photo by Stewart Huntington/ICT)
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Fifty years after Wounded Knee: ‘Proud and strong’

By Stewart Huntington and Shirley Sneve
FILE - Assistant U.S. Attorney General Harlington Wood, third row center without hat, is escorted into the village of Wounded Knee , S.D., by members of the American Indian Movement on March 13, 1973. Second row, left, wearing a mackinaw is Russell Means, an AIM leader, and Carter Camp, another leader, walking beside Wood. Wood was sent to the reservation in an effort to find a solution to the problem. (AP Photo, File)
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Photos: Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation

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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South Dakota tribe sues US over crime

By The Associated Press
Excavation began Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, at Red Cloud Indian School in the basement of Drexel Hall, shown here in May 2022 as ground-penetrating radar searched the area where a worker saw what appeared to be three small graves in the 1990s. The radar was inconclusive, so officials agreed to dig up the area. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/ICT)
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Excavation begins at Red Cloud school for possible remains

By Mary Annette Pember
Stairs lead down to the basement of Drexel Hall on the campus of Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, where officials are set to begin excavation Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, to search for unmarked graves. Red Cloud is among the first schools to address the issue of its boarding school past with a Truth and Healing initiative to find out the truths about what happened. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/ICT)
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Buried Secrets: Red Cloud takes the lead in uncovering boarding school past

By Mary Annette Pember
Marsha Small, Northern Cheyenne, conducts ground-penetrating radar at the Red Cloud Indian School in May 2022 in the basement of Drexel Hall, a former dormitory and home for nuns where a maintenance worker said he saw three small graves. Officials decided to dig up the concrete and excavate the area after radar findings were inconclusive about whether unmarked graves may be underneath.(Photo by Mary Annette Pember/ICT)
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Red Cloud Indian School will dig for graves

By Mary Annette Pember