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South Dakota tribe purchases shuttered foster village, plans to reopen this year

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has purchased the 18-bed facility, which is meant to divert Native children from state foster care and to encourage cultural connections

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Mission of Wounded Knee activists continues 50 years later with children, grandchildren

Mission of Wounded Knee activists continues 50 years later with children, grandchildren
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Mission of Wounded Knee activists continues 50 years later with children, grandchildren

The world had largely forgotten about Native American people by the early 1970s, said Marcella Gilbert. Native populations had been decimated by disease and colonization; their sprawling homeland where ancestors

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Mission of Wounded Knee activists continues 50 years later

50 years ago, hundreds of Native Americans and Indigenous activists began 71-day standoff against U.S. government at Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge Reservation.

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It takes a village: Foster program with CT connection is a new model of care for indigenous children

Past a gravel road lined with old white wooden buildings is a new eight-acre village dotted with colorful houses, tepees and a sweat lodge. The Simply Smiles Children's Village, in this small town on the Cheyenne River Reservation, is home to a program aimed at improving outcomes and reducing trauma for Indigenous foster children.

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