‘Without our language, we die’: Nebraska’s Native tribes fight to save their languages
Tim emakiyapi. My name is Tim. Omaha ed wati. I live in Omaha ISanti Dakotah hemahantan. Do. I come from the iSanti Dakotah (Santee Sioux). It sounds so…
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Tim emakiyapi. My name is Tim. Omaha ed wati. I live in Omaha ISanti Dakotah hemahantan. Do. I come from the iSanti Dakotah (Santee Sioux). It sounds so…
Kris Ferguson had a quick reply when someone asked how she and a small group of volunteers managed to finish a 17-mile stretch of the long-planned but unfinished…
The Santee Sioux Nation reservation in northeast Nebraska has been under a no-drink order since 2019. Leaders hope a new state law could jumpstart funding needed to fix the problem.
You can still win, coach Dana Vote told his star grappler. In her two seasons at Doane University, Cristelle Rodriguez became known for aggression, for overpowering her opponents,…
BROKEN BOW – As the five horseback riders disappeared behind a pasture hill on a blustery late April morning, a meadowlark sang in the rustling tall grass. An…
A nonprofit has won acclaim for sending Malawian teenagers to Nebraska colleges and changing their lives. But some students, college leaders and Norfolk host parents are fed up, and saying the Malawian teenagers have been misled by false promises leaving them penniless, nearly homeless and lost.
With poems such as “Drunken Indian,” Aliyah American Horse aims to dispel stereotypes and bring Native issues to the forefront. She’ll do that in Washington as she competes to be the next National Poet Laureate.
The case and lack of criminal charges against the still-practicing veterinarian outraged some residents. Now they’re seeking to recall the longtime county attorney.
The U.S. government incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII. When the war ended, they were left to rebuild their lives.
The transformation of the Japanese Hall from a gathering place to a museum involved a long, bumpy journey – literally. In the four years since relocating the white…