ANADARKO OKBy S.E. Ruckman, Native Times Correspondent 5/22/2008
The Tonkawa Hills officially belong to the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma.A ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony drew over 300 onlookers to the top of Indian City Hill in Caddo County [MAP] Saturday as tribal officials from both the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma dedicated […]
Stealing The Sacred Black Hills
written by cwolfr
Here we are in 2008 and once again through fakery and manipulation they are trying to steal the Sacred Black Hills from my Lakota brethren. Just as centuries ago when they fooled leaders and elders with worthless treaties again here comes the whiteman and the government to try again […]
Jana Hollingsworth Duluth News TribunePublished Sunday, May 25, 2008
Though poverty is still an issue on American Indian reservations, tribes today are in a better position to address the problem than ever before.
Casino revenue, though not as plentiful as many believe, has given tribes the ability to pour resources into communities, said Duane Champagne, a […]
NIGC Reports Successful Government-to-Government Consultations—However One Defines “Success”
During last week’s Great Plains/Midwest Indian Gaming Conference and Trade Show at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Mystic Lake Casino Hotel near Minneapolis-St. Paul, the National Indian Gaming Commission conducted government-to-government consultations with tribal leaders from the region. According to NIGC Chair Phil Hogen, the consultations allowed “ample […]
Her face black with soot, Victoria Ranua strides across a Minnesota hillside, painting it with fire. What begins as a low thin strip of yellow, ignited by her torch, leaps behind her at once into a huge hedge of dancing flames, racing across dry prairie grasses.
The process, Ms. Ranua said, helps the native plants […]
Warm weather is finally here, and with it the season for outdoor celebrations, from festivals and fairs to rodeos and fishing contests.
In the west metro area, offerings range from the sugary delights of the Hopkins Raspberry Festival to the wild west celebration of the Hamel Rodeo and Bull Riding Bonanza.
Some other highlights from around […]
A Minnesota Indian tribe buys up land to restore prairie
PRIOR LAKE, Minn. (AP) An American Indian tribe has purchased 125 acres of land in the Twin Cities suburbs and returned it to the way it used to look.
By the end of the year, the Shakopee Mdewakanton (SHOCK-ah-pee mid-ah-WAHK-tun) Sioux tribe hopes to begin restoring 450 […]
“Their Mystic Lake casino, which opened in 1992 about 30 miles from downtown Minneapolis and is the biggest gambling hall in Minnesota, has generated millions for the tribe and made its estimated 300 members rich. Many live in suburban McMansions.”
Video’s of the Dakota’s Wakan/”Rum” River Watershed traditional/ancestral homeland
(1.) The mouth of the Wakan/”Rum” River.
This sacred Dakota river flows out of Wakan/”Mille Lacs” Lake. The Dakota call this river by the sacred name for their lake [Wakan], which translated means Spirit or Great Spirit. The Dakota had a village located at this sacred site. Around […]
By DAVID PETERSON, Star Tribune
Last update: May 3, 2008 - 11:06 PM
David Joles, Star Tribune
After lighting a backfire during a prescribed burn on a prairie on Shakopee land Victoria Ranua, an environmental assessment specialist for the Shakopee, keeps an eye on the flames.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is purchasing land in Scott County […]
