SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says the tribes are not responsible for her banishment from some tribal land within the state. “I don’t believe it’s the tribes that are banishing me,” Noem said. “It is their tribal governments, and it is their presidents, their chairmen. I do not believe it is […]
Marcella Rose LeBeau, a tribal citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux, lived a long life that was spent in service to others–in Indian Country and beyond–as a nurse, tribal councilor, and advocate. Born in Promise, South Dakota, her grandmother gave her Native name: Wigmunke’ Waste Win’, which means Pretty Rainbow Woman. Upon receiving a Leadership Award from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) during its winter session in Washington, D.C. in February 2020, LeBeau, 100, told a moving story of having treated a soldier, a tribal citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, who lost both of his legs during the war, and then meeting him some forty years later.
The Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP), in collaboration with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, distributed 435 boxes of food to families on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation earlier this month. CRYP Family Services members received their boxes on Nov. 9, and members of the general public received theirs on Nov. 10. “This was so much more than a holiday meal,” said Julie Garreau, CRYP’s executive director.