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CHICAGO, IL —Ellen Harmon and Serena Harmon, co-owners of Rosebud Building Products, have been nationally recognized as Rising Stars in the 2025 Top Women in Hardware & Building Supply Awards, presented by HBS Dealer magazine. The sisters were selected from more than 1,000 nominations across the United States, representing outstanding women making an impact inContinue reading “Rosebud Sisters Honored Nationally Among Top Women in Hardware & Building Supply”

BOX ELDER – The Rosebud Sioux Tribe Enrollment department staff will be in Rapid City December 17th through the 19th, 2025 and during that time they will be accepting applications and issuing tribal identification cards and abstracts. The identification cards and abstracts will be issued immediately to eligible applicants once required documents are received. StaffContinue reading “RST will issue tribal enrollment documents in Rapid City”

Sicangu Co is working in partnership with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to provide a temporary solution if there is a halt to federal SNAP benefits. Together, we’re ensuring that 5 buffalo from Wolakota will be harvested and processed to create hamburger, stew meat, and roasts. The meat will be distributed to all communities across theContinue reading “Local Officials at Rosebud taking steps to offset possible food shortages”

As most of us know by now, the federal government shut down on October 1, 2025 at midnight. This affects the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) or Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) that many of our families depend on this program has been frozen for November. On October 16, 2025 USDA secretary Brooke Rollins stated “theContinue reading “Feed your relatives”

MISSION – The 3rd Annual Sicangu Food Summit was an educational event attended by local residents to celebrate our traditional foodways and strengthen our local food system. Attendees spent the event, held on Indigenous Peoples Day learning, connecting and celebrating with hands-on workshops and local speakers. This year’s sessions include topics like seed saving, poultryContinue reading “SicanguCo hosts 2025 Sicangu Food Summit”

ROSEBUD – Recently, RST President Kathleen Wooden Knife wrote to the SD Congression Delegation urging them to reopen the government and to save SNAP, WIC and LIHEAP. The October 17 letter also requested the RST PL 93-638 Indian self-determination programs be funded. Excerpts of the letter are included in the following paragraphs. “The Rosebud SiouxContinue reading “RST President asks Congress to save SNAP, WIC and LIHEAP”

To acknowledge October as domestic violence awareness month, I’d like to address an issue that we are all familiar with and that many of us have been affected by. That is, the missing and murdered indigenous women, men, people and children. Sadly, it’s not just women who are missing and/or murdered, it’s all of our relatives who can be MMIW or MMIP. Many of us haveContinue reading “MMIW”

No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can’t ignore it.”   –Jack Welch   The ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of others is called emotional intelligence, it involves a set ofContinue reading “Emotional intelligence”