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09/05/2025

Family holds gathering Sept. 4 to ask people with information to come forward

09/05/2025

The public is asked to avoid an area of the Cannonball River near New England following a chemical spill on Wednesday. https://www.kfyrtv.com/2025/09/04/chemical-spill-reported-cannonball-river/

09/05/2025

A Fort Yates woman was sentenced placed on three years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to starting a September 2024 fire that destroyed the Selfridge Post Office.

08/30/2025

Congratulations to our Newly Crowned Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Royalty 2025-2026:

Mini Miss - River Sage Veo
Little Miss- Brielle Garreau
Jr Miss - Bella Traversie
Miss Cheyenne River- Kateri Veit

08/29/2025

08/23/2025

PSA For Release:

08/18/2025

Bismarck Police Arrest Suspect in Double Stabbing

BISMARCK, N.D. – Bismarck Police arrested Summer Lebeau today after an investigation into an early morning stabbing near Ministry on the Margins in the 200 block of N 24th St.

Officers responded to the area around midnight for a report of stabbing and found two individuals with stab wounds. One victim, a 22-year-old Bismarck man, had a severe but non-life-threatening injury to his lower back, and the other, a 22-year-old homeless woman, had a superficial wound to her facial area. Both were taken to a local hospital for treatment and are expected to recover.

Officers identified the suspect as 29-year-old Summer Lebeau. She was found nearby and taken into custody without further incident. She was then taken to a local hospital for evaluation before being booked into the Burleigh Morton Detention Center.

A folding knife, believed to have been used in the assault, was recovered at the scene. Witnesses told officers the suspect approached the victims on the sidewalk and assaulted them without physical provocation immediately before the incident.

Lebeau is charged with two counts of aggravated assault.

The investigation is ongoing.

08/17/2025

08/16/2025

Introducing the 2025 United Tribes Legends Hall of Fame Class!
We are proud to honor the outstanding individuals and teams who have left a lasting legacy in the UTTC Legend’s Softball Tournament and in the world of softball. Please join us in celebrating this year’s inductees:
🏅 Individual Inductees:
• Wenelle Clown (Cheyenne River Lakota)
• Jeff Smith (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe)
• Nolan Desjarlait (Red Lake Nation)
🏆 Team Induction:
• Lady Wokiksuye (Sicangu Lakota)
• Tongue River Softball (Montana)
📅 Induction Ceremony Details:
Date: Friday, September 5th
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Clem Kelley Complex – Legends Field #8
Let’s come together to honor our relatives and their incredible contributions to the game.
👏 Congratulations to the 2025 Legends Hall of Fame Class! 👏
Stay tuned for more exciting updates!

08/16/2025

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Sexual assault in Indian Country will stop when we quit ‘normalizing’ it

Recently there has been a national movement to combat sexual harassment and assault that began in October 2017 after allegations of sexual harassment by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein which led to a landslide of allegations against him. Efforts to encourage other victims of sexual harassment or assault led to the #MeToo Twitter and Facebook movement.

Fellow journalists and myself have been wondering when #MeToo will extend to Indian Country.

I have been wanting to address how we, as Native people, elevate men to leadership roles even though they have sexually assaulted our women and children.

We as a people, need to stop elevating men who have committed any type of sexual assault on women or children to leadership roles. We need to stop accepting it and “normalizing” it.

You wonder why I say this. In our tribal elections, there are election codes and guidelines and requirements. With these regulations, we should not be able to elect leaders who have sexually assaulted our women and children.

But there are also leadership positions that are not regulated by an election code. We have spiritual leaders, tiospaye leaders, grass roots activist leaders – with men in prominent leadership positions and the people know it – and still we allow them to lead. That is why I said “elevate” instead of elect.

Many men who have sexually assaulted women or children oftentimes, do not get charged. They never spend a day in prison. How so? Because of the very nature of these crimes. They happen in secret, where the victims are often threatened if they tell. The victims often live with the shame and guilt for the rest of their lives.

If the sexual predator does not ever get charged and penalized by our justice system, they are free to continue victimizing our women and children They have a clean slate and many vulnerable women and children who look up to them as leaders.

In our District Organization’s here on the reservation, many times sexual predators are nominated and elected right at the District meeting. When an elected office is open, it is posted that it will be on the agenda of an upcoming meeting. All the sexual offender has to do is tell their family to attend that particular meeting and nominate them and vote for them.

The people who do not approve, will sit by, and they will be counted as “Not Voting.”

Having a sexual offender as an elected leader is an embarassment. It is a shameful thing! It is a very sick dynamic which makes the whole district, or community look dysfunctional. And in turn, we as a nation look sick and dysfunctional.

This is a true story. I spoke with a fellow journalist about an event that happened during the protest. They told me that they would not take that particular issue seriously, because the leader in this issue was a sexual predator, which made the whole community sick and dysfunctional.

I did argue that there were many in the community that were smart, ethical, upstanding. She then asked, then why did they elect a sexual predator? I had no answers.

Often times, we in our communities know who the predators are. We know those who have taken sexual advantage of our women or children. We know whole families of men “who are like that.”

What we do need to do, is stop elevating these men to leadership roles. It makes our whole nation look sick and dysfunctional. If you are a family member who puts these predators in a leadership role, stop it!

Victim’s who speak out must be listened to, believed, and helped. We all know the recent story of the young lady who spoke out. Her own family said she had “issues,” and couldn’t be believed. My God! A teacher who was supposed to report, stayed silent! Please stop this sick behavior!

Many in our Nation need healing. Not just from historical trauma, Indian boarding school abuse, tribal members who were sexually assaulted as children, women who have been r***d – we as a people need to address this whole sexual assault in Indian Country phenomena.

The newest movement is the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women movement. Sadly, their disappearance or murders can be traced back to sexual assault.

Saving our women and children takes stepping up and speaking out and saying we won’t allow it anymore. We won’t be silent about sexual assault of our women and children. It stops with us!

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