Stewart Huntington
Special to Indian Country Today
RAPID CITY, South Dakota — Call it one step forward and two steps sideways in a dispute over former boarding school land.
The city council in this South Dakota reservation border community voted Monday to allocate $9 million toward the construction of an urban Native community center in a move that was seen as groundbreaking.
“This is the first time that a substantial investment has been made (by the city) to an Indigenous effort in our communit...