Sun Times Editorial - 560

It is rapidly approaching that time of year again on the Rosebud for tribal voters to be heard.

On July 26, an eligible few will be allowed to exercise their right to vote in the Primary Election, weeding out the excess number of candidates given the opportunity to file their candidacies, and pay for that right, during the month of May.

Whiteclay: Genocide One Can at a Time

Each day I wake up and open my eyes, I thank Tunkasila for the life he has given me.

The most deplorable thing about alcohol and addiction is the stripping away of each layer of pride and strength, until you’re left with a shell of who and what you used to be.

Special to the Sun Times

J. Emilio Flores

ROSEBUD, S.D. — Daniel Gárate’s career came crashing to earth a few weeks ago. That’s when police warned local real estate agents not to hire photographers like Gárate, who was helping sell luxury property by using a drone to shoot sumptuous aerial movies.

Say what?

Flying drones for commercial purposes, police said, violated federal aviation rules.

No, that can’t be true, can it?

By OJ Semans Sr.

Recent negative events created by corporations, state and federal government are affecting tribes all over the U.S.

For most people, sovereignty is an easy concept when applied to the United States alone.

However, when it comes to tribes, sovereignty becomes highly complex, impossible to understand, and may be really bad. How bad?

It causes cancer.

Huh?

Oglala Lakota College
Graduate Studies Department
APPLICATION DEADLINE
APRIL 27, 2012

Interested in obtaining a master’s degree, such as: Lakota Leadership & Management; or Education Administration?

Deadline for applications is April 27, 2012.

By Corey Flood

NORFOLK, Neb. — Michelle Janis, an interviewer soon learns, wears many hats on campus at Northeast Community College, here in Norfolk.

Not only is Janis a full-time student, she is also a full-time mother, grandmother, a significant other, and quite recently, president of Oyate, a student-run Native American club, which now boasts nearly a dozen active members.

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

By Rodney M. Bordeaux

Hau, Mitakuyepi: Since the United States first began illegally invading our homelands in the 1800s, the Sicangu Lakota have defended our homelands. Despite the overwhelming military force of the U.S., our people fought to force the U.S. to negotiate the 1851 and 1868 treaties.

By Rep. Lydia Whirlwind Soldier

A motion was made by an RST Council member on the Health Board to suspend the highly-successful free animal clinic temporarily, and the motion was approved.

This Animal Control Clinic is provided by the Community Health Representative (CHR) Program to our people, and in my opinion, a very much needed service for our people and our animals.

Returning to The Lakota Ways

I was asked by a former instructor of mine to give a presentation on Native America and our treatment as aboriginal people down through history.

The class is Unity & Diversity and covers many issues about how society has functioned and the treatment of other races that inhabit Unci Maka (Mother Earth).

I always welcome these kinds of opportunities to speak out. My proudest moments have come from promoting what and who Native America is.