Tamara Grove

A bill which would mandate the teaching of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, or OSEUs, has advanced from the Senate Education Committee.

The South Dakota senate is narrowly passing a bill to reduce the state’s felony ingestion law. South Dakota is the only state in the country with a felony charge for ingestion of a controlled substance.

South Dakota is the only state in the county with a felony level charge for ingestion of a controlled substance. A new bill reduces that charge to a misdemeanor for the first two offenses in 10 years.

With Monday marking President Donald Trumps second inauguration, tribal leaders are assessing what this means for their communities nationwide.

Republicans’ already-iron grip on the South Dakota Legislature got tighter this election.