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In South Dakota, the third Saturday of October, kicks off South Dakota’s annual pheasant season opener, offering access to nearly 4.5 million acres of public land. It is the largest hunting attraction...

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    Native Hope Leaders’ Society “Siouxper Elite” Peer to Peer Impact

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    Native Hope Leaders’ Society member Ramez wants to create a positive impact on his friends and classmates from his native community. That’s why Ramez volunteers his time to teach youth and families to...

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    August 21, 2019

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    Coming Together to Build a Field for Native Youth

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    Early this spring, a group of Native parents in a remote community on the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Reservation began to dream about a baseball field for their community. They knew they needed healthy ac...

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    August 6, 2019

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    Lose the Language, Lose the Culture

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    Imagine losing the ability to question, to state, to joke, to think. Language is the core of expression and offers a unique view of the world. It encompasses a history—the history of a people and thei...

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    August 1, 2019

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    Music Is Medicine: The Journey and Conception of Wonahun Was’te’ Records

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    Special thanks to Talon Bazille Ducheneaux/ShootsTheEnemy for sharing his story below. When I began my journey as a “hip hop artist” I honestly didn’t think it would take me anywhere. I was highly inf...

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    July 30, 2019

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    A Place to Grow

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    “If you build it, they will come.” An old adage, but according to the Crow Creek District [CCD] Representative Carla Pickner, a true one. Last summer, she saw the community come together day after day...

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    July 17, 2019

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    Summers on the Rez: Community through Baseball

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    Summertime comes with familiar sights, sounds, and smells. The feeling of the sun baking your skin. The fireworks on the Fourth of July. The thwack of bat on ball when you head to the local baseball g...

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    July 10, 2019

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    Connection and Empowerment for Native People: The Teachings of the Bow and Arrow

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    Most Americans think of the bow and arrow as a tool for hunting or sports. But writer and craftsman Joseph Marshall III has always seen the bow and arrow as a source of spiritual guidance. In Lakota c...

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    June 21, 2019

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    Purity in Pine Ridge: The Native American Bow and Arrow

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    Google “Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.” The search results may reveal the following words: broken, failing, suicide, forgotten, and third-world. However, Native Hope knows that Pine Ridge is so much m...

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    June 7, 2019

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    Native American Culture and Yoga: A Healing Partnership

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    All great cultures have traditions and teachings that offer truth for our lives today. Whether these traditions and teachings are spiritual, philosophical, or physical, they all serve to connect prese...

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    May 31, 2019

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