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“STUPID INDIANS” Craigslist Posting Should not be Tolerated
By : Dana Lone Hill “That’s South Dakota for you!” That is the common response to the word most people in this state like to make about the R-word. Racism. It is almost as if it is a way to blow it...
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Don’t Make Me Rip Those Chicken Feathers Off You
By : Dana Lone Hill When I look at pictures of my grandmothers from back in their hey day I feel proud. They were all strong women. You could see it in their eyes. I have one picture in particular of...
View ArticleSupport Our Community With Red Friday
By : Dana Lone Hill With the holidays coming up, we also have the unofficial holiday of Black Friday. A day when greedy, money grubbing corporations take advantage of consumers who are out to buy the...
View ArticleSouth Dakota’s Dirty Little Secret
I never realized what assimilation was or is. I never gave a thought about genocide or Manifest Destiny and I thought the holocaust only pertained to what Hitler did to the Jewish people. And it...
View ArticleReclaiming Their Honor
There is a phrase that makes every Indigenous person cringe. “Get over it, it’s in the past.” And yet each and every one of us had heard it or read it, whether it was directed at us or indirectly....
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Those Who Hold this Country’s Highest Honor Have No Honor by Dana Lone Hill
If you could rewrite history, what would you do? I would do many things, but the first thing I would take the medals of honor away from those who committed war crimes at Wounded Knee. If Germany...
View ArticleOglala President Brewer involved in #ShutDownWhiteClay TODAY! Dana Lone Hill
*photo credit to Joey Feaster On the anniversary of the Occupation of Wounded Knee, February 27, 1973 and 40 years later, two bars in Whiteclay, Nebraska were shut down by about 60 activists of the...
View ArticleSioux Falls, SD: Lyle Eagle Tail Makes Supreme Sacrifice to Save Siblings -by...
I write often about the state of South Dakota. It is where I was born and raised and I love my homeland. However, when I write about South Dakota, I usually write of the hate crime and racism that...
View ArticleTo End White Clay by Dana Lone Hill
On this day on June 17th, 1876 Crazy Horse and Knife Chief defeated General George Crook in the Rosebud River in what is now Montana. Combined forces of Cheyennes and Lakota Warriors stopped and drove...
View ArticleVictory at the Little Big Horn and the Petition to Return WhiteClay -Dana...
137 years ago the Lakota nation banded with their allies, the Northern Cheyenne and the Northern Arapaho to fight their greatest enemy and they won. Up until that time the United States really had no...
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Hear The Voices of The Wakanyeja by: Dana Lone Hill
After the popular vote to legalize alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation on August 13, 2013, three brothers were upset at the narrow margin. The boys were Floyd age 17, Jake age 16, and Edward age 12....
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A Little White Bird & Little White Lies by Dana Lone Hill
The following is a book review I did on a book sent to me in the mail. I often get books to review from places and always have to make time to read them. However the following book was so offensive to...
View ArticleMy view on the Coca Cola commercial by Dana Lone Hill
I know there are people who hate Coca-Cola, because of it’s history. And I know people hate Coca-Cola because it causes diabetes in our people. I mean when I go home, I am offered a coke, more than I...
View ArticleThis country by Dana Lone Hill
This country People will still rush around in a 9 to 5 crazed madness From city to suburbia Strip malls fly in a blur of color and franchise vomit To save money for an uncertain retirement on an...
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Don’t Make Me Rip Those Chicken Feathers Off You by Dana Lone Hill
When I look at pictures of my grandmothers from back in their hey day I feel proud. They were all strong women. You could see it in their eyes. I have one picture in particular of my Great, Great...
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Facebook don’t believe in Indian names by Dana Lone Hill
Click to enlarge. This is the message I received from Facebook when I tried to sign in. At first I had thought it was because I switched my name to my father’s last name, which I had gone by up until...
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2015 Warriors See No Color Memorial Event
The Warriors See No Color Memorial Event recognizes the heroism of both Lyle Eagle Tail and Madison Wallace. On March 14th, 2013, 6 year old Garret Wallace fell in the icy waters at Falls Park here in...
View ArticleWe call it Wannabe by Dana Lone Hill
The whole Rachel Dolezal incident has blown up over the internet and social media these past few days. A white girl who tanned herself, permed her hair, and claimed African American heritage so far as...
View ArticleI am an Indian woman by Dana Lone Hill
I am an Indian woman who stands tall and proud as short as I am I am an Indian woman strong and loud as quiet as I seem I am an Indian woman you do not mess with because you don’t know I am an Indian...
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Tazer Becky Found Not Guilty by Dana Lone Hill
During the holidays is a time when we think of our relatives who are locked up. Many handed down sentences for sentences that span into decades. Being a Native American in South Dakota, although we do...
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