South Dakota Department of Tribal Relations

The Department of Tribal Relations is hosting the 7th annual State Tribal Opioid and Methamphetamine Summit this month.

The Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, or OSEUs, are once again being considered by the state Board of Education Standards.

South Dakota’s Office of Indian Education – or OIE – is not part of the wider Department of Education. Instead, it’s part of the department of tribal relations. For some in native communities, they want their students to have similar standards as public-school students.

For the first time in a decade, the event was held in Rapid City, and it was the first in-person event since 2020.

Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said Wednesday that he has not hired anyone to serve as a liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, even though the Legislature passed a law last year requiring him to create the position.

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