by Heather Steinberger | Mar 1, 2021 | Indian Country News
“A new program launched by South Dakota State University in partnership with the Indian University of North America focuses on ecosystem sustainability from a Lakota perspective.”...
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 28, 2021 | Indian Country News
:It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so, a laconic, evasive passerby who defies Olympic idealizing. A breakfast of...
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 28, 2021 | Community, Covid-19, Special Events
As schools on South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation prepare to welcome children back to in-person learning on Mar. 8, the staff at the Cheyenne River Youth Project is getting ready to commemorate the occasion with a special, and safe, Back to School Bash....
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 28, 2021 | Community, Covid-19, Special Events
With support from Feeding South Dakota and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Cheyenne River Youth Project distributed 1,100 food boxes to community members on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The nonprofit youth organization’s small staff and a group of youth volunteers...
by Heather Steinberger | Feb 22, 2021 | Cokata Wiconi Teen Center, Partnerships
In collaboration with the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute, the Cheyenne River Youth Project is bringing back the popular “Growing into Wowachinyepi” program for 2021. CRYP and CNAY are currently accepting applications for this second cohort,...
