Pine Ridge News

It's a topic many people deal with, but not many are willing to talk about. That may be a large part of the problem contributing to the growing number of teenage suicides.

Sen. Jim Bradford, R-Pine Ridge, said the reservation needs a nursing home so elderly people don't have to live in facilities located far away.

Even lobbyists for the liquor industry agreed Wednesday that it was a good idea for the state to help establish an alcohol detoxification center near Whiteclay, Neb.

Where most of us think of winter's snow and ice as a homeowner's headache, one Brandon man, instead, sees opportunity.

A South Dakota Senate committee has endorsed a plan to build a nursing home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Even though crime rates on South Dakota's Indian Reservation's have been an ongoing problem.

Close U.S. NEWS By JOEL MILLMAN Fallen power poles at a community pow-wow ground after a storm hit Ziebach and Dewey counties in South Dakota.

David Noles teaches at Little Wound School, located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

The Salish Kootenai College Bison and Lady Bison will take to the court Saturday, Jan.

H1N1 flu has been more than twice as deadly for Native Americans than South Dakotans as a whole because of other risks the tribal population faces.

My friend and esteemed Keloland colleague, Cory Heidelberger, alerts us to an article we ought to notice in the British Guardian.A The article is about the Pine Ridge Reservation, and it is dispiriting reading.

There are those who choose to take jobs that almost immediately make them unpopular, at least unpopular to those factions that are always on the opposing side.

Conditions on the reservation are tough. More than 80% unemployment. A desperate shortage of housing a ' on average, more than 15 people live in each home and others get by in cars and trailers.

The US president has pledged to improve the lives of Native Americans. But he faces huge challenges, such as those on Pine Ridge Indian reservation where unemployment is more than 80%, the average wage is A 4,400 a ' and life expectancy is 50 Two young men from Pine Ridge at the local cemetery where five members of their gang are buried.

December 29 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Wounded Knee. This 1890 conflict is what many people call the last battle of the Indian wars in the United States.

Regarding the story "Indian mascot ire simmers/Commission wants schools to nix names" : I grew up in Nebraska during the 1940s to the early 1960s, near the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

Jessica Yee is a multiracial youth of Native descent who was called to the line of action by raising controversy in her Catholic school and began volunteering at Homeward Family Shelter at the age of 12.

When Dee Brown wrote his book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," he could not have known that it would become a classic.

Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.

Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:52 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:52 p.m. PINE RIDGE, S.D. At 24, Richard Wilson is practically an elder of the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips gang and one of 5,000 young men from the Oglala Sioux tribe involved with at least 39 gangs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.