Crazy Horse Memorial announces the Indian University of North Americaâs new leadership team
Foundation prepares for summer program partnership with South Dakota universities
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Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation announced Feb. 22 the Indian University of North America has a new leadership team for 2021: Director Joshua Rudnik, Associate Director Whitney A. Rencountre and Manager of Residence Life Nathaniel “Nate” Watahomigie.
According to Crazy Horse Memorial President and Chief Operating Officer Laurie Becvar, the new team is already working hard on preparations for this year’s summer programs in partnership with the University of South Dakota and the fall-semester Wizipan Leadership and Sustainability Program in partnership with South Dakota State University.
A Sioux Falls man has been given the gift of a new life thanks to his college love and wife of 25 years.
James Reeser, 48, received a transplant from his wife, Lindy, on Feb. 10 after battling a genetic kidney disease called polycystic kidney disease that has impacted several members of his immediate family.
His grandfather died from the disease at the age of 62, while both his mother and sister have received kidney transplants due to complications from kidney failures.
Polycystic kidney disease is a severe condition that causes clusters of cysts that develop within your kidneys and could possibly spread to other portions of your body and cause high blood pressure and kidney failure, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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The oldest remains of a domesticated dog in North America were found in Alaska, and this pooch may add a missing link to when and how the first domesticated dogs migrated here from Russia – but it’s looking more and more like the first ones were at the side of the first humans to migrate here. This is an exciting historical discovery – not just something to rub in the face of your cat-loving friends.
“The fossil record of ancient dogs in the Americas is incomplete, so any new remains that are found provide important clues. Before our study, the earliest ancient American dog bones that had their DNA sequenced were found in the U.S. Midwest.”
An ancient bone fragment holds clues to how dogs got to the Americas, researchers report.
The research reports that a bone fragment found in Southeast Alaska belongs to a dog that lived in the region about 10,150 years ago. Scientists say the remains a piece of a femur represent the oldest confirmed remains of a domestic dog in the Americas.
DNA from the bone fragment holds clues about early canine history in this part of the world.
Researchers analyzed the dog’s mitochondrial genome, and concluded that the animal belonged to a lineage of dogs whose evolutionary history diverged from that of Siberian dogs as early as 16,700 years ago. The timing of that split coincides with a period when humans may have been migrating into North America along a coastal route that included Southeast Alaska.