Lakota Well-Being Project

02/06/2026

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02/06/2026

02/05/2026

Discover the power of Lakota Four Directions healthcare

Join us on Feb 10th and 24th, 2026, from 12 PM to 1 PM at Oyate Health Center to explore the healing wisdom of Lakota traditions. Learn how ceremony supports wellness and culturally respectful care with Mr. Richard Moves Camp.

Let’s come together to deepen our understanding of holistic healing practices. Don’t miss this enriching experience!

Join on Zoom: https://greatplainstribalhealth.zoom.us/j/85405758157?pwd=hi4YHfePqvVGbMfm4FwclnvITygec8.1

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02/05/2026

The Department of the Interior announced today a new partnership between the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education.

02/03/2026

02/03/2026

The cost of truth-telling.

In this gripping episode, Dr. Candace Manitopyes sits with award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker Tanya Talaga, whose work has become a lifeline for truth in a country still wrestling with denial. From the moment they begin, the conversation feels less like an interview and more like two Indigenous women pulling back the curtain on generations of silence, survival, and spiritual return.

Tanya shares her path from being the lone Indigenous journalist in mainstream newsrooms of the 1990s (where stories of Indigenous suffering were dismissed as repetitive or “not news”) to becoming one of the most vital Indigenous voices in Canada. She speaks about the spiritual rupture created by Christianity’s imposition on Treaty 9 families, the generational fear of ceremony, and what it means to finally question beliefs handed down in the name of survival.

The conversation deepens as Tanya describes “the knowing”—the ancestral intuition that lives in Indigenous people, the sense that something is missing, the unspoken grief. She recounts sitting with survivors in Kamloops during the discovery of unmarked graves and how their words struck her like a freight train: “We always knew.” That knowing becomes the backbone of her work and the spiritual compass that guides her truth-telling.

Candace and Tanya explore the cost of telling the truth, the courage it demands, and the liberation it creates for everyone who has been waiting to breathe.

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Ep. 49:
Unlearning the Colonial Lies, Reclaiming the Knowing with Tanya Talaga

Listen wherever you find your podcasts or at

www.relentlessindigenouswoman.ca

02/02/2026

WIN: HCR 6003, Rep. Nicole Uhre-Balk's resolution recognizing the importance of conservation & restoration practices in addressing water shortages and forest fire mitigation in the Black Hills, PASSED UNANIMOUSLY out of the SD House and Senate.

Thank you, Representative Nicole Uhre-Balk!

02/01/2026

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Mdoza ✨🌊

The Loon is considered by Dakota people to be a revered bird because of it being a diver and going back and forth between our surface realm and the water realm of the Unktehi…

I’ve seen our state bird has been used as a symbol of resistance and resilience in these trying and unprecedented times. I never would have thought our state would enter global consciousness and discussion again and yet here we are.

But I am absolutely proud of the way our state has shown up for community and each other. And I’ll always represent being born and raised here in Mni Sota Makoce. My people’s blood is in the very soil we call home. My ancestors died for it.

I can’t do much, but all I can do is doodle on my silly little iPad to keep myself busy.

These are tough times but we’re standing strong.