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WASHINGTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today, former President Bill Clinton and leaders from six Sioux Indian Tribes announced a new wind power initiative that will harness South Dakota's greatest natural resource and spur long-term development in the economically depressed region. The initiative, which is receiving critical legal and public policy counsel from Arent Fox LLP, was announced as a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action during the 2013 Clinton Global...

Lee's Summit High School's FIRST robotics team #1730, Team Driven, is scheduled to compete at the FIRST Robotics World Championship Event on April 25th-27th in St. Louis. From a pool of more than 2,000 teams from all over the world, 400 will converge on the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis for the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition World Championships to be held April 24 - 27. Kansas City, Missouri (PRWEB) April 24, 2013 After six grueling weeks of long nights and early mornings,...

Davenport Associates will represent Sioux Chief in the six New England states, focusing on the company’s many popular rough plumbing Supply, Drainage, and Support products such as their universal PEX fittings systems, the Ox Box™ washing machine access box, the Finish Line Drain™, and others. Wallingford, Connecticut (PRWEB) January 02, 2013 Kansas City based rough plumbing manufacturer, Sioux Chief, announced its new manufacturer’s representative partnership with Davenport...

Davenport Associates will represent Sioux Chief in the six New England states, focusing on the company’s many popular rough plumbing Supply, Drainage, and Support products such as their universal PEX fittings systems, the Ox Box™ washing machine access box, the Finish Line Drain™, and others. Kansas City, Missouri (PRWEB) December 07, 2012 Kansas City based rough plumbing manufacturer, Sioux Chief, announced its new manufacturer’s representative partnership with Davenport...

In response to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation’s recent healthy food and farming grant, Massage School San Diego has released a list of the best healthy crops to plant in the fall. Pine Ridge, SD (PRWEB) October 07, 2012 A group on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation recently received a $70,000 grant to advance farming and healthy food efforts for the Oglala Sioux tribe. In response, Massage School San Diego, a proponent of healthy living, raw organic foods and massage therapy schools...

On Wednesday, Sept. 5, at a rally in Rapid City, SD, members of the Native American Pe’ Sla Land Sale movement gathered to celebrate progress in securing land they consider sacred. The rally was organized by the Last Real Indians and the Lakota People’s Law Project. Two hundred and fifty people carried posters made by street artist Shepard Fairey and National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey, which read “The Black Hills Are Not For Sale.” The nine Sioux tribes of South Dakota...

MINNEAPOLIS, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BringMeTheNews (BMTN) has raised $3 million in capital from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), which has been a sponsor of the pioneering online broadcast news curator for nearly two years. "There's a lot to be proud of with the tremendous growth we've seen in BMTN in just three years," said Rick Kupchella, founder of BMTN. "We've grown to nearly 20 employees, including some of the biggest names in journalism in this...

Nicholas Kristof’s portrait of the Pine Ridge Reservation in his piece for the May 9th New York Times “Poverty’s Poster Child” is shocking and sympathetic, but, according to the Lakota People’s Law Project, it does not address social and economic structures of oppression in South Dakota. While he implies that regular economic investment models could help Native American communities, he does not depict the reservation system’s perpetuation of conquest and Native American...

BORN OUT OF SPORTS LEGEND'S TRAGIC DEATH - TODAY SOME 200 NATIVE AMERICAN CLUBS SERVE 88,000 YOUTH PINE RIDGE, S.D., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 20th anniversary of the SuAnne Big Crow Boys & Girls Club (www.SuAnneBigCrow.org) later this week also marks the opening of the first Club in Indian Country. Established in 1992, this Club serving the Oglala Sioux community marked the first collaboration of the public and private sectors to give hope and opportunity to a...

The Lakota People's Law Project is sponsoring the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Forum which is being organized by Janice Howe to help other Lakota/Dakota/Nakota relatives understand their rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act. Many Indian family members are wanting to get their children back from South Dakota foster care facilities. Featured in an NPR story on October 25, 2011, Ms. Howe lost her granddaughters to the Department of Social Services suddenly. She was denied any...