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Governor Bill Anoatubby named Janie Simms Hipp, J.D., LL.M., as the 2025 Dynamic Woman of the Year during the annual Dynamic ...
Usha Sundaram, India’s first woman pilot after Independence, flew daring missions to rescue Indians stranded during Partition ...
In 1889 — 132 years before the ask — La Flesche made American history when she became the first Native American to earn a medical degree. Born in a tipi in 1865 on the Omaha reservation in northeast ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Rosebud Sioux Tribe has declared a state of emergency. Kathleen Wooden Knife, the first woman tribe president ... certain crimes in Indian Country in federal court.
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes from her house. Instead, she’s driving more ...
As we first reported last year, men and women from those ... Ghost Bear is a member of the Sioux tribe, and president of an organization called the Horse Nations Indian Relay Council.
Ramsdell announced on Wednesday that a Sioux Falls woman has been sentenced to federal prison for ... a 9-year-old child by punching the child repeatedly at the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation.
And the South Dakota health department says pregnant women and infants in the state ... including parts of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, in South Dakota and Nebraska.
Indigenous women make up less than 1% of Minnesota ... president of the Lower Sioux Indian Community, in the news release. “We support the relatives that are left here. We have prayers for ...
SIOUX CITY, Ia. — Minutes before the first-ever presidential forum on Native American issues began, an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe invoked Black Elk, a famous holy man, in a prayer.
Schulte has sentenced a Denver, Colorado, woman convicted of Conspiracy to ... including within the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation, the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation, and the ...
The first chairperson for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe back in the ‘50s was a woman. Her name was Josephine Kelly and she was a graduate from the (infamous) Carlisle Indian Boarding School.