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Native Women Bikers Rally for Missing and Murdered Sisters

Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride 2020 honors victims of MMIW crisis 

BEAR BUTTE – About 100 people from all across the land gathered at this native sacred site Aug. 9 to pray and participate in the Sturgis Medicine Wheel Ride 2020 to raise awareness about the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Children and Two-Spirit relatives. Native women motorcyclists led the 70-mile ride from Bear […]

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Lakota grandmothers fight man camps amid pandemic

Keystone XL Pipeline construction proceeds, bringing thousands of workers — and threat of Covid-19 — to reservation

The threat “causes eerie memories for us with the infected smallpox blankets that were distributed to tribes intentionally in the 1800s,” said Faith Spotted Eagle, a member of the Brave Heart Society and Yankton Sioux Tribe. “It is absolutely similar, whereby we lost thousands of people in our tribes along the Missouri River.”

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