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Giago and Mickelson gave South Dakota a day worth honoring
RAPID CITY—Long before Indigenous Peoples Day became a national movement, two South Dakotans sat on opposite sides of a historical divide and decided they could do something meaningful together. One was Tim Giago, an Oglala Lakota newspaperman from the Pine Ridge Reservation. The…
Our first line of defense
Men of ethics and strength look at a problem and they see the fix and work tirelessly to achieve it. Sometimes it takes decades to change the system, but once the change is in place, once the mechanism exists to directly address the problem, the work of the strong and ethical is…
How did discourse ever get this intractably polarized?
One of the curious things about an activist is the demand leveled almost immediately if you should disagree with their assertions, however hyperbolic and reality hostile these assertions. You realize such a mind is not opened to reasoned correction so you have learned the hard…
An encroachment on the right to vote
There is little significant debate over elections, executive power, and absolutely no debate about Project 2025 and its election goals. What we do hear is the Save Act and other election changes are about returning “balance:” the presidency against the bureaucracy, election…
The way it was
N. Scott Momaday was perhaps the most gifted Native writer of all time, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn in 1968. A member of the Kiowa Nation, Momaday’s plots were often narrow or thin, but his wordsmith ability was lyrical and unmatched in its capacity to…
Grouchy and gratuities
One time Grouchy and his brother and some other Indian guys helped a rich French artist down in Arizona move their art collection, and all the helpers got fifty bucks for helping. But when the French guy was alone with Grouchy and his brother he gave us another $50 gratuity. That…