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A fight over a seat at a popular restaurant ended with a Villager behind bars. The altercation took place at about 7 p.m. Friday at Harvest Restaurant at Brownwood Paddock Square. Julie Ann Marsh, 56, of the Village of Pine Ridge, took a seat at the outside bar at the restaurant, but the seat had been claimed by another couple, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. The couple apparently confronted Marsh when they returned from the restroom. The man informed Marsh she was in his chair, prompting a verbal altercation. Marsh announced she was “not getting...

Protesters blocked the roads leading up to Mount Rushmore ahead of President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July speech that is scheduled to take place there Friday evening. Footage from the RSB Network shows protesters standing on top of several large white vans and blocking traffic in South Dakota, where Trump is scheduled to give a speech and a fireworks display Friday night. The protesters were holding signs and flags and had reportedly slashed the tires of the vans they were standing on. Riot police were eventually called to the scene. A video from the RSB network showed a group...

A Bushkill, Pa. woman and six other individuals are facing a multitude of charges, including counts of terrorism, assault, and kidnapping, following a failed takeover of the Pine Ridge community on Monday. According to a criminal complaint from Pennsylvania State Police out of Blooming Grove, Tonia Scott, 49, of Bushkill was the alleged ringleader of a group of armed individuals who sought to forcefully take the land occupied by the Lehman Township community on the afternoon of Nov. 18. A police interview with Scott revealed that she had claimed rightful ownership to the land of the Pine Ridge and Saw...

“I thought my last film was hard,” Zhao laughs, “but for a Chinese woman to try to wrangle a bunch of young cowboys?” Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao is making her second trip to the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight this year, with sophomore feature The Rider. Born in Beijing, Zhao went to school in the UK and college in the U.S. before settling in Denver, basing her first two feature films on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Zhao’s 2015 drama, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, was developed at the Sundance Institute and premiered in Park City that year. It centers...

Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT MONDAY, JULY 17, 2006 – 0530 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was moderate nationally with 207 new fires reported.  Thirteen new large fires (*) were reported, three each in the Eastern Great Basin and Rocky Mountain Areas, two in the Northern Rockies Area, and one each in the Northern California, Southwestern, Southern, Western Great Basin and Eastern Areas.  One large fire was...

Haines Index Map - Higher Haines means fire growth tends to be stronger: Fuel Dryness:  Tells you how likely things are to burn if a fire gets started: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2006 – 0800 MDT NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS LEVEL 3 CURRENT SITUATION: Initial attack activity was moderate nationally with 201 new fires reported.  Nine new large fires (*) were reported, three in the Northern Rockies Area, two in the Rocky Mountain Area and one each in the Southern California, Eastern Great Basin, Western Great Basin and Southern Areas. Four large fires were contained, two in the...

PORCUPINE (AP) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council voted 9-5 Thursday to impeach the tribal president for proposing an abortion clinic on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Cecelia Fire Thunder survived two earlier attempts to remove her from office since she was elected in November 2004 as the tribe's first female president. This time, the issue was over South Dakota's new abortion ban that does not include exceptions for rape or incest. After Gov. Mike Rounds signed the bill, Fire Thunder vowed to work to open a Planned Parenthood clinic on the reservation, beyond the reach of state law. Will Peters,...

If South Dakota's abortion ban stands, it won't ban them from all parts of the state. The Oglala Sioux tribe president wants to open a women's clinic on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that will offer abortions only if House Bill 1215 becomes law. Cecilia Fire Thunder, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe "The best solution to abortion is to make sure that women have access to contraceptives, have access to family planning options, and that information needs to be out there at all times where all women of childbearing age have that information and use it." For those reasons, Fire Thunder...

FARGO, N.D. - A judge has rejected an appeal by imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who argued the U.S. government had no right to try him for crimes that occurred on a South Dakota reservation. Peltier, 60, is serving a life sentence for killing two FBI agents during a 1975 standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in 1977 and has filed numerous appeals. U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson ruled that the government has the right to prosecute and imprison anyone who kills federal agents, no matter where the crimes occur. The Pine Ridge shootout left...

Ward Churchill was "a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) security team at the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota in the early 1970's..."

ROSEBUD, S.D. - A campaign flyer from John Thune's campaign office started a groundswell of resentment as it brought back some unpleasant memories of racism in South Dakota. A flyer with a picture of prairie dogs on the front with the words ''The dogs are lining up to vote for Tom Daschle,'' appeared in many western South Dakota mail boxes just a week before the election. Prairie dogs are a major problem for ranchers in the state, and it has become a campaign issue. And to add fuel to the fire, Thune campaign workers were caught taking photos of people...

SIOUX FALLS - A tribal judge has no authority to keep Republicans from watching Tuesday's voting on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney James McMahon said Saturday. McMahon said that anyone who tries to carry out the order would be subject to violating federal law. "It would be my interpretation of that order that it does not comply with the law, and I have let it be known to law enforcement that they should not be enforcing any order on the reservation which purports to keep the Republican Party away from the polls," he said. Also Saturday, a Republican poll...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge has no authority to keep Republicans from watching Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney James McMahon said Saturday. "It would be my interpretation of that order that it does not comply with the law, and I have let it be known to law enforcement that they should not be enforcing any order on the reservation which purports to keep the Republican Party away from the polls," he said. "If anyone does that, they're subjecting themselves to violating federal law." The Four Directions Committee, which calls itself a nonpartisan group...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of time. In the document, Four Directions accuses Knutson of intimidating its workers on Wednesday at Pine Ridge by videotaping them...

Oglala order could prevent GOP poll watching on Pine Ridge CARSON WALKER Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A tribal judge filed an order Friday that, if upheld, may prevent South Dakota Republican Party workers from observing Tuesday's voting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Four Directions Committee, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group trying to increase American Indian voting, was granted the temporary restraining order against the South Dakota Republican Party and Ryan Knutson. Oglala Sioux Tribe Judge Marina Fast Horse signed the order without telling them about it ahead of time. In the document, Four Directions...

AIM Activist's Funeral to Go on, Family Fighting Request for Third Autopsy By Carson Walker/Associated Press Jun 18, 2004 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Days before the planned funeral and reburial of an American Indian Movement activist killed nearly 30 years ago, lawyers for two men charged in her death are seeking a third autopsy in hopes of absolving their clients. The family of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash intends to go ahead with Monday's funeral on the Indian Brook Reserve near Halifax, Nova Scotia, and only the reburial is in question, said Denise Maloney, her older daughter. U.S. prosecutors believe...

Family rich with history Marirose Morris married the boy next door - but she had to move to Seattle to do it By Ilene Olson rep3@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Dotted with names like Smoke, Her Many Horses, Lone Wolf, Bear Lays Down, Princess Blue Water and fur trader Joseph Bissonette, Marirose Morris' family tree is not the typical genealogical chart. It is a page seemingly torn from the history of the American frontier. Much of that history, dating back to the early 1800s, centers here in Wyoming, despite the fact that Morris grew up on the...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. – Bruce Whalen is trying to persuade people around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to do something they just don't do: vote Republican. The task may seem daunting if not impossible in a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly 11-to-1. But Republicans believe the Indian vote could play a decisive role in this year's closely watched Senate race between Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and former GOP Rep. John Thune. They say Daschle has failed to use his clout in Washington to solve rampant problems on the reservation, where people live in almost Third World conditions. Unemployment...

GOP eyes American Indian vote in traditional Democratic stronghold By Carson Walker, Associated Press Writer Bruce Whalen is a college student who speaks his beliefs with conviction, but his message aims to turn the political status quo on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on its head. The Pine Ridge man's mission is to persuade people to do something they don't do here: Vote Republican. In Kyle, Karlene Hunter has the confidence of someone who has had to fight for what she has. Hunter, last year's National Indian Businesswoman of the Year, dresses casually but carries herself with a Wall Street professionalism...