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Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - A new book produced by Cankdeska Cikana Community College on the Spirit Lake Reservation serves to preserve and promote the Dakota language and oral history. Mni Wakan: Place Names and History of the Spirit Lake Dakota is co-authored by the college’s Dakota Studies instructor Louie Garcia of Spirit Lake, and author and illustrator Mark Diedrich. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe visits with honorary tribal historian Louie Garcia at the college and college president Dr Cynthia ...

The Tribal College will celebrate the book release and give away signed copies during the annual Alumni Gathering on Thursday, July 21, which is open to the public.

MU ends its requirement for employees and students to self-report COVID-19 infections

Books about the Dakota War tend to pop up every quarter-century, for the major anniversaries of the war.

The tours were punctuated with press briefings, demonstrations of cigar-rolling and a telephone, ballet and theater performance, even an aborted assassination attempt.

MU on Thursday outlined how it plans to implement and enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on its employees to comply with President Joe Bidens executive order.

Phyllis J. Tucker, age 95, of Alexandria, passed away peacefully

The University of Missouri is again requiring masks in classrooms, starting Monday, according to a message to the campus community sent on Thursday from Mark Diedrich and John Middleton with the MU Incident Command Team. "Missouri is working to combat a rise in cases primarily caused by the Delta variant, with most of the cases occurring in unvaccinated individuals," the message reads. "While faculty, staff and student cases remain very low at Mizzou, we will take additional precautions." All...

Beginning June 1, the university will change from requiring social distancing and mask-wearing indoors to recommending those measures based on vaccination status.