Fort Yates News

The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades.

The weekend came early for the 785 students in the Standing Rock school district.

KEITH JOHNSON IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE CUSTER HEALTH DISTRICT, WHICH INCLUDES THE FORT YATES AREA.

The first school in the state has closed due to the Flu .... Too many sick kids to continue class on the Standing Rock Reservation... All the schools in Fort Yates have closed for the rest of the week.

Officials say schools in Fort Yates, south of Bismarck, have closed for the rest of the week because of the number of students absent, believed to be due to the flu.

When I visit the Cowboy Hall of Fame in the North Dakota Badlands the last thing I expect to find myself doing is attending a historic ceremony to mark the return of Chief Sitting Bull's headdress to his people.

FORT YATES, N.D. Officials of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe sa9 they are appealing the denial of a $1.5 million suicide prevention gran4 that would hel0 keep five workers on the job in communities along the North Dakota-South Dakota border.

The battle over the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo is coming down to the wire.

The future of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname is a fiery debate exploding from the UND campus in Grand Forks ... to different reservations and communities around the country.

Sitting Bull College is dedicating a new student support center and library with a special ceremony for a headdress said to belong to the Sioux chief for whom the college is named.

THEIR 1999 LAWSUIT ALLEGES THE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM IN GRANTING LOANS.

Eds: APNewsNow; Will be led. AP Photo By JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press Writer BISMARCK, N.D. American Indian farmers and ranchers involved in a decade-old lawsuit have been told by their attorneys and tribal leaders not to lose hope.

Fort Yates _a>, N.D. A supporter of the University of North Dakota's Fighting Siou8 nickname _a> on the Standing Rock UND _a>'s nickname and Indian head logo when they meet Tuesday morning.

Fort Berthold Reservation rancher Pete Fredericks says he still hasn't recovered from a brutal winter nearly 30 years ago that wiped out half his black Angus herd.

FORT YATES A headdress that belonged to the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull will be returned to Sitting Bull College at Fort Yates when its new Student/Support Center/Library is dedicated Sept.

Here is the latest North Dakota news from The Associated Press MINOT, N.D. The Minot Air Force Base is holding an activation ceremony for its new B-52 bomber squadron today.

United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on August 31, 2009, Donald C. Luger, a/k/a Jody Luger, 58, of Fort Yates, North Dakota, pled guilty and was sentenced before United States District Court Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of altering or concealing a tangible object in a federal investigation.

A man has been sentenced to three years of probation for trying to cover up evidence from a hit & run crash that killed a man in Fort Yates.

A man has been sentenced to three years of probation for trying to cover up evidence from a hit-and-run crash that killed a man in Fort Yates .

Written by Associated Press Avis Little Eagle, the tribe's vice chairwoman, says some people who wanted to vote for her were not allowed to.