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Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Sean Sherman's Indigenous Food Lab is leaving Midtown Global Market
Sean Sherman's Indigenous Food Lab is leaving Midtown Global Market originally appeared on Bring Me The News. The Indigenous Food Lab Market from NATIFS, the nonprofit founded by "Sioux Chef" Sean Sherman, is leaving the Midtown Global Market on June 7. It will move into the group's Wóyute Thipi Building in the former Seward Co-op Creamery at 2601 Franklin Ave. S in Minneapolis. NATIFS announced its acquisition of the building earlier this year. When completed, it will also house a commissary kitchen for producing Indigenous foods for public schools and hospitals, NATIFS offices, coworking space for Indigenous and other BIPOC businesses, and its new ŠHOTÁ Indigenous BBQ by Owamni restaurant. The Indigenous Food Lab Market, a cafe and retail space with Indigenous-made products, opened in the Midtown Global Market in 2023. It was founded as part of NATIFS' overall mission to foreground sustainable, Indigenous food culture. The nonprofit recently announced that the Indigenous Food Lab will expand to Bozeman, Mont., with hopes of opening in late 2025. An opening date for the market at the Wóyute Thipi Building has not yet been announced. Its production kitchen will remain at Midtown Global Market, and its food education initiatives will remain active, NATIFS said in an story was originally reported by Bring Me The News on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
Wall Street Journal
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Sitting Bull' Review: History Channel's Lessons on a Leader
One of the refreshing things about 'Sitting Bull,' the History Channel's two-night, four-hour documentary on the Sioux leader, is its attempt at some kind of balance amid the hosannas. The show is a fairly underpopulated, re-enactment-heavy production; Michael Spears, who plays Sitting Bull, bears a passing resemblance to actor Jon Hamm and thus suggests the CEO of Oglala Enterprises Ltd. The program does make clear the injustices done to Native Americans—the broken treaties, hypocrisy, greed and the slaughter of the bison in pursuit of Indian starvation. It features much indigenous input. And yet no one is nominated for sainthood. As noted by one expert among the many interviewed here, the Lakota (Sitting Bull's group among the Sioux people) never read Sun Tzu. Yet they were fluent in the art of war. Why? Because tribes became experts in military strategy fighting each other (the Lakota vs. the Crow, for example). They were capable of atrocities. Wholesale slaughter. Their own brand of cruelty, however it might have been provoked. This doesn't ameliorate the ultimate tragedies at hand. It further humanizes the story of a people and a leader whose devotion to duty, honor and tribe should have been the values of the U.S.
Epoch Times
11-05-2025
- Politics
- Epoch Times
The Gentleman Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands, 1883–1888
On Feb. 12, 1884, while serving in the state legislature in Albany, Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) received a telegram from New York City that his wife, Alice, who was living in his mother's house, had delivered their first baby. He had already arranged to return home later that day when a second telegram brought news of the precarious state of Alice's health. Rushing back to Manhattan, he found Alice semiconscious and dying from Bright's disease and his mother, Mittie, stricken with typhoid fever. Both women died within hours of each other on Valentine's Day. Though devastated by this double catastrophe, Roosevelt hid his innermost feelings from others, sitting stone-faced during the funeral service while so many around him were weeping. His diary, however, reveals the true state of his heart and mind. Though normally effusive, on this occasion he could only He struggled through a session of the legislature and the 'Mako Sica' Theodore Roosevelt during a visit to the Badlands of Dakota in 1885, after the death of his first wife. Photo by T.W. Ingersoll. MPI/Getty Images Long before the coming of white explorers, the Lakota people had called this territory ' As Americans pushed westward, the Dakotas became one of the battlefields with Native Americans, particularly the Sioux. In the late 1870s, with those conflicts coming to an end and, with the arrival of the railroads, cattle, and ranching became a focal point of the territory. In tandem with these developments, newspaper reports and the pulp fiction of the day were romanticizing cowboys and the Western life, attracting wealthy Easterners who purchased cattle and bought up vast tracks of land throughout the West, giving themselves an air of the exotic among their peers. During these same years, living up to its name in a different way, the Badlands was a haven for outlaws and rough men, where disputes were often settled by gunplay rather than by a court of law. Related Stories 2/23/2025 3/23/2023 It was to this unruly land that Roosevelt traveled in 1883 to hunt buffalo. The Badlands Helped Make America's Parklands Roosevelt's trip west changed both the man and the history of the United States. Rather than being put off by the craggy landscape and harsh climate, Roosevelt fell in love with the Badlands. He had made this journey in part to acquire a taste of the cowboy life, and the Dakotas gave him exactly what he was looking for. Impulsively, he made a large investment in the Maltese Cross Ranch, and a year later, following the deaths of his wife and mother, he moved to the Badlands and purchased more land and more cattle, establishing what he called the Elkhorn Ranch. Despite his relative youth and inexperience, Roosevelt played a key role in the establishment of the On the Fourth of July, 1886, Roosevelt also revealed the views of America he would later carry into the White House. He delivered his first major public address, now known as his 'Big Things' A lone buffalo in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Western North Dakota. Roosevelt originally came to North Dakota in1883 to hunt buffalo. Laima Swanson /Shutterstock Roosevelt's Dakota years and his subsequent trips there eventually had vast ramifications for the rest of the country. As president, the hunter was also a conservationist. He helped rescue the buffalo, which were on the edge of extinction, and sought to preserve the American wilderness and forests by establishing some 230 million acres of parkland around the country. This ' President Theodore Roosevelt (L) poses with naturalist and botanist John Muir on Glacier Point in Yosemite, California. MPI/Getty Images Yet the knowledge he gained, especially those lessons absorbed during his early infatuation with the Badlands, would influence the history of the country in another way—or so Roosevelt believed. In a 1918 letter of appreciation to Professor Albert T. Volwiler, who had described those North Dakota years in an article, Roosevelt When East Met West Life in the Badlands shaped Roosevelt in a multitude of ways. Still in his 20s during these years, he was young enough to be molded by the challenges of this place and its people. Concerned about his physical health since boyhood, he had fought off life-threatening asthma attacks, and, with the encouragement of his father, he had focused on physical well-being and exercise. His years in the American West pushed him even further in the direction of strength and fortitude. The cowboys and other ranch hands whom he supervised later testified to his abilities to endure the weather, to ride long hours in the saddle, to exert himself when they themselves were flagging from fatigue and hunger. For the first time in his life, he was doing truly hard work alongside hard men. Moreover, those men were radically different from Roosevelt's friends and companions back East. Privately schooled, a graduate of Harvard, a member of New York's elite, and a budding politician, his company now consisted of a rougher crew. Their companionship enlarged his sympathies for the working class. Other tests of manhood also came Roosevelt's way. In one incident, for example, a drunken and armed cowboy in a bar began to The Stolen Boat (L–R) Wilmot Dow, Theodore Roosevelt, Bill Sewall at Elkhorn Ranch, circa 1886. Public Domain The incident most revealing of Roosevelt's character and which gained the widest attention among locals occurred in March, 1886. Three thieves Three days later, they caught up with the surprised crooks, who were surprised again when their captors did not execute them on the spot. Roosevelt was an outspoken advocate for law in this territory, and so insisted they take the men to a sheriff for justice. For several more days, they battled the ice-cold weather, wet clothes, and lack of provisions before finally delivering the men to the sheriff in Dickinson, who was also surprised that the thieves were brought to justice rather than being shot out of hand. These sorts of conflicts along with the daily trials of frontier living helped create the man who would become a police commissioner of New York City, the leader of the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and a strong and vigorous American president. From the Badlands to the Arena Roosevelt's plans to become a Western rancher were short-lived. The Yet those few years in the Badlands remained a large and vivid part of his life. Perhaps Roosevelt was thinking of his time as a cowboy when, two years after leaving the White House, he spoke at the Sorbonne, an address originally titled 'Citizenship in a Republic,' which we know today as his ' A warrior both in Cuba and in the rough-and-tumble politics of his time, Roosevelt had become a man of the arena whose training ground was the North Dakota Badlands. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, 1898, by B.J. Falk. Library of Congress. Public Domain What arts and culture topics would you like us to cover? Please email ideas or feedback to
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
West Street Bridge closing for a few months
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The City of Sioux City Engineering Division has announced the start of the West Street Bridge Replacement Project. The project will close West Street Bridge to all traffic starting on May 19, pending weather and construction plans. A detour route will be set up via East Loop Road, West Loop Road, and K18S. Floyd Blvd. and 4th St. bridges to close over summer The closure will last until mid-October. The bridge project is being funded through the City Highway Bridge Program and local funds. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Black Hills still not for sale, Oglala Sioux Tribe rejects FOIA request to unseal value
Talli NaumanBuffalo's Fire Oglala Sioux Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out says U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum should deny a major media request to reveal the Black Hills Claim accounting record. Speculation is that interest earnings are worth over $1 billion on the $102 million land payment that federal courts adjudged to the Sioux Nation 50 years ago. The Oglala and their six fellow Teton Sioux bands never took the 1974 federal claim money offer for the theft of their Black Hills treaty-guaranteed territory. So, the Interior Department, as their legal trustee, invested the nations' behalf through its Bureau of Trust Funds Administration. CNN Investigative Unit reporter Casey Tolan, a data journalist, filed the request under Freedom of Information Act terms. He asked the Interior Department for 'the most recent statement available listing the total amount of money held in trust by the department.' Oglala leaders recently rejected the idea after being notified by the department. When Interior officials notified the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Star Comes Out said the request is 'just an underhanded way to ultimately get the Oglala Sioux Tribe to implicitly accept the 1980 Black Hills Claim.'' He told Buffalo's Fire: 'All the Sioux tribes have informed the United States since 1980 that 'The Black Hills Are Not For Sale'.' The Indian Claims Court determined the award in 1974, six years later the Supreme Court affirmed it. However, the Oglala Nation never agreed to any settlement of the Black Hills Claim, Star Comes Out said in the official response to Interior's February notification. The Oglala told Interior in their March response that the department has a fiduciary duty to keep all the information requested by CNN confidential: Case law supports that argument under Exemption 4 of the FOIA. The response, obtained by Buffalo's Fire through official channels, asserts that 'disclosure of the information in question would harm the interests of the tribes.' It says that 'wide dissemination of the amount of money in the Black Hills award trust account would likely lead to the Sioux tribes being subject to harder bargaining in commercial dealings and transactions with third parties.' Furthermore, disclosure would help individuals 'to put pressure on the tribes to make immediate distributions from the Black Hills award trust.' That would challenge tribal leadership policies that such distributions run counter to tribes' long term interests, it says. Asked for a comment, Star Comes Out said: 'Why now? Why is CNN all of a sudden interested in the current balance of the 1980 Black Hills award, especially during the Trump Administration's recent actions to cut government appropriations for Indian tribes. I would like to know who prompted Mr. Tolan to make the FOIA request.' Tolan did not answer Buffalo's Fire attempts to ask about his actions. Oglala Sioux Tribal Treasurer Cora White Horse sent the Interior Department a notarized affidavit stating she cannot release the information without a tribal council resolution. 'The Black Hills statement information requested by CNN has … never been disclosed to the public nor been shared with any private commercial entity, nonprofit organization, or with any state, local, or other tribal government,' White Horse stated in the affidavit. Furthermore she said, the information is 'subject to physical security measures and cybersecurity measures instituted and maintained by my office to prevent the trust account statements from either being hacked or otherwise leaked or disclosed in an unauthorized manner to others.' Oglala Sioux Tribal Attorney Mario Gonzalez drafted the tribal response to the CNN FOIA request -- in consultation with President Star Comes Out and Treasurer White Horse. Gonzalez was the attorney who stopped payment of Black Hills Claim money to the Oglala Sioux Tribe in 1980. His litigation in the 1973 Claims Distribution Act ultimately kept the money in trust for all the Sioux tribes with no call for them to cede the territory. Star Comes Out told Buffalo's Fire, 'We will never sell out our holy lands, the Black Hills, to the United States for monetary compensation.' He said: "I believe, however, the Sioux tribes would be open to engaging in nation-to-nation consultations under mutually agreed-to protocols with new Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to find innovative ways to resolve the Sioux land claims without having to sell out our homelands.' The Oglala Sioux and Standing Rock Sioux tribal councils 'have a pending request for such consultations with Secretary Burgum," Star Comes Out said.
