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Editor’s note: This article is to clarify the availability of early voting in Dewey County. Many thanks to Dewey County Auditor Jamalia Franzen for collaborating with us! Look for a more in-depth story next week on the work of Franzen’s office to support democratic elections. In this election cycle, culminating in the general election on Tuesday, November 5, all South Dakotans, including those in Dewey and Ziebach Counties, have access to the op…

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Early voting available Sept. 20 - Nov. 4 in Dewey and Ziebach Counties

October 1, 2, 3, 2024 Relatives, we had three days of Tribal Council October session at the Cultural Center.  Reminder ** Strategic Planning Sessions: These sessions will be ongoing throughout the month of October. We need your input to plan for our Future. There will be planning sessions throughout the Rez see schedule flier for more info. The future is us. ** October 1st Council heard the final report for the Tribal Census. We approved an Exec…

Chairman LeBeau’s October Tribal Council Summary

Chairman LeBeau of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe announces the Tribe’s support for the USDA Forest Service’s application submitted to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), requesting the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw approximately 20,574 acres of National Forest System lands administered by the Black Hills National Forest.  In addition, on Wednesday October 2, 2024, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Council passed an Executive Resolution ca…

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Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe stands in support of USDA Forest Service’s Pactola Reservoir Withdrawal Application

On a cold, clear evening in February 2002, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation where my mother had been raised, my brother and cousin were tracked by the FBI. Looking at FBI photos meant to incriminate my brother changed me, and eventually changed my writing. After many years of publishing poetry, I started turning to […]

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What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

MITCHELL, S.D. – While reflecting on the need to build her own network within the South Dakota agriculture industry, Rebecca Blue began to wonder if other women in ag were encountering the same challenge.    “I’m from South Dakota, I’m a woman in agriculture and I kept wondering what networking options are available to me and who are the women I can connect with,” said Blue, who has an extensive agriculture career that’s taken her from her homet…

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Empowering and connecting women in agriculture

We have been receiving tremendous feedback from our June series on various sub-categories of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The West River Eagle is grateful to be in the position to bring this information to the forefront of our community and hopefully spark additional conversations and healing for anyone impacted by these types of traumas. We look forward to supporting all of us in getting the assistance and healing we may need.  We rece…

More information regarding PTSD

Summer Rain Afraid Of Hawk (Mnicoujou, O’Ohenumpa, Siha Sapa, Oglala Lakota) has been appointed as the first Marijuana Executive Director of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s Cannabis Control Corporation, Inc. Afraid Of Hawk brings experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), project management, and working with Tribal governments, BIA, USDA, NRCS, and nonprofit organizations. The Cannabis Control Corporation was established by the Cheyenne Ri…

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Cannabis Control Corporation, Inc. appoints first Marijuana Executive Director

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECTEach child receives four gifts from their Wish List, in addition to warm winter clothing. The packages are addressed to them personally.  It might only be September, but for the Cheyenne River Youth Project, the holidays are right around the corner. In three months, the nonprofit youth organization will deliver multiple personalized gifts to more than 1,000 children in 20 communities across the Cheye…

Cheyenne River Youth Project prepares for Wo Otúh’an Wi with the launch of the 2024 Family Services Membership Drive

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The Cheyenne River Youth Project has announced that it will host its 12th annual Harvest Festival Dinner at its Eagle Butte campus on Friday, Oct. 18. Held in conjunction with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s Indian Child Welfare program, the free public event is scheduled for 6-8 p.m. The highlight of the evening will be the dinner buffet at Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life), as menu items will incorporate fresh, organically grown, local produce f…

Cheyenne River Youth Project invites community to 12th Annual Harvest Festival Dinner on Oct. 18

This month, the Cheyenne River Youth Project is welcoming teens to its Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) for fall internship programming. Open to ages 13-18, the Native Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Cooking internships runs from Oct. 9 to Nov. 15, while the Art internship runs from Oct. 14 to Nov. 22.  All five-week internships take place at 4-6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Not only will teens have opportunities to engage in hands-on learning, co…

Cheyenne River Youth Project keeps teens busy this fall with internship program

PHOTO COURTESY OF AHANNI KNGIHTAhanni Knight jingle dancing in the dress she made with special material gifted to her by an elder at Sundance.  Ahanni Knight, a 2019 Cheyenne-Eagle Butte (C-EB) graduate, has competed in Indigenous pageants since 2017. Knight was Miss Cheyenne River from 2019-2022. Last year, the jingle dancer received fourth place at the Black Hills Powwow in the Miss He Sapa Win competition. This year, she has her eyes set on w…

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