Members of the Nebraska Santee Sioux Tribe hope a solution to their five-year water ordeal may be on the way. Their tap water has been unusable for drinking or cooking since 2019, when unsafe ...

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Those parcels on the Santee Sioux reservation generate about ... hope that at some point, the State of Nebraska will transfer the land to the tribe, similar to what is happening in other states.

The Santee Sioux Nation has also been asking the State of Nebraska for help with its water for years, Runnels said. In 2022, the tribe had hope for funding through a water quality bill ...

The Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska is an extreme example — living ... And for four years, the tribe has been unable to afford the necessary infrastructure to fix the problem.

I come from the iSanti Dakotah (Santee Sioux). It sounds so simple ... “The drum is the heartbeat of the tribe, but language is the soul.” Four Nebraska tribes are working to keep that ...

Solomon, the BIA’s point person in northeast Nebraska ... Some 420 allotment owners on the Santee Sioux reservation sold their shares to the tribe under that buy-back program, greatly reducing ...

More than 150 years ago, federal agents ordered students at the Santee Normal Training School on the Santee Sioux ... study the tribe’s forced exile from Minnesota to northeast Nebraska.