SDSU Student's Association recognizes college land grab

Despite the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 that distributed unceded lands in the public domain to raise funds for colleges. 

After the defeat of the 7th Cavalry at Greasy Grass in 1876 and the Great Sioux War Congress abrogated that treaty in 1877 and the Utes, Lakota, Arapaho, Cheyenne and others who migrated, lived and hunted all along the Front Range were driven into concentration camps.

In 1980 attorney Mario Gonzalez filed the federal court case stopping payment of the Black Hills Claim award to the Oglala Lakota Nation. Gonzalez contends that the commission charged to make peace with tribes inserted language into the Fort Laramie Treaty signed in 1868 that Red Cloud had neither seen nor agreed to in negotiations. 

In 2019 during an episode of The Keepers, a podcast produced by the Kitchen Sisters and NPR, the lead Archivist at the National Archives told listeners lawyers are combing the records for treaties with tribal nations none of which have been honored by the United States.

The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are directly linked to the Native American Genocide and South Dakota State University is just one of those offenders. SDSU was funded using 160,000 acres of land-grant scrip or parcels. A significant portion of the lands allocated for South Dakota's land-grant fund came from territory originally recognized under treaties with the Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) nations, including the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 and subsequent agreements that were systematically altered or violated by the federal government as white settlement expanded.

Ordinance 26-1-O passed during Monday night’s Students’ Association (SA) meeting, establishing a formal and acknowledgement for all SA Senate Meetings. The ordinance was created in collaboration with the American Indian Students’ Association (AISA). SDSU’s land acknowledgement, created through the Wokini Initiative, will be read after the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each SA meeting. Senator At-Large Paul Fasen said he spoke with members of his constituency after initially reading the ordinance and asked them whether or not they care about the land acknowledgement. “Resoundingly, the constituents that I talked to said that they didn’t care,” Fasen said. “One person actually said that he would prefer it if we didn’t include this land grant.” [Students’ Association passes land acknowledgement]

Spearditch is asked to separate church and state

Spearditch is the seat of whiteness in LawCo and in the winter Exit 14 looks like a monument to the clear-span building that has been air-dropped into Antarctica so life-long residents drive to Rapid City and Denver to shop forsaking local merchants. 

The resultant soaring median age of the retirees seeking deliverance from the cultural diversities thriving in Colorado, California, Minnesota, even Arizona and Oregon drives the exploitation of South Dakota's regressive tax structure and reinforces the racially insulated Nazist enclave that Spearditch is today. 

But, to little surprise, the assisted living, funeral home and florist industries do very well and now that brown workers can take the driver's license exam in Spanish white people can spend more time snorting and shooting meth. Many, if not most, of these obese Republican slackers take advantage of the dynasty trust industry and flee the frozen tundra in their RVs ahead of consecutive six-month winters and strings of below-zero days.

A christianic invocation adopted in 2025 by the Spearditch City Council between the roll call and the Pledge of Allegiance was added at the request of disgraced, fired former city administrator Bobby Falcon but on Monday, two residents asked the city council to reconsider the addition. 

Following mounting public and council pressure over performance and transparency, the Spearditch civil authority voted unanimously in February 2026 approving a separation agreement, paying $250,000 and parting ways with Falcon because of opacity obscuring a 1995 felony conviction in North Dakota where he had been convicted of simple assault, terrorizing, and preventing arrest.

“By asking people to stand if they want to observe is dividing this community … There is too much division already,” said [Spearditch] resident Rosalie Aslesen. She asked the council to remove the request to stand from its invocation. A second speaker, Jay Desort, went one step further. He asked the council to suspend the practice altogether. Desort asked that the city attorney be directed to do research on the topic for discussion. On Monday, both Aslesen and Desort said they plan to fill out an agenda item request form to ask the city council to formally reconsider the invocation. [Black Hills Pioneer]

USD journo tackles CTE

The NFL, the Fox group and the Trump Organization are among the country's most hated companies so dissolving the NFL then ending college and high school ball can't happen soon enough. 

A 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 110 out of 111 brains of those who played in the National Football League had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In 2023 Arizona State’s Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center learned that the worst damage to developing brains comes from repeated blows to the head especially among those who play American football.

A University of South Dakota journalist is telling readers just how horrible the results have become.  

Eight-hundred-seventy-eight former NFL players died between 2016 and 2021. Researchers were able to examine 235 of the deceased players’ brains, and found CTE in 215 (91.5%) of those brains. This means that at least one in four NFL players have the disease. Tanner Peterson, the coordinator of athlete mental health, addiction & preventative services at USD, discusses student athlete mental health and what he looks out for. Peterson compares mental health to physical health, “Just like we anticipate physical strain with student-athletes, we also want to equip them with the tools to manage the mental and emotional strain of being a student-athlete.” The disease cannot be diagnosed until after death however, so the current rate of CTE in current NFL and football players is unknown. [Brady Cartledge, The Volante]

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Area blogger makes the paper

Image of scrawny old man by Nathan Burton.

During my private discussion with the community coalition's lawyer she asked me why i didn't act on this in November and i told her that i was duped by NMDOT then became frustrated with the magical thinking among most of the community members. She also encouraged me to contact the US Attorney for the District of New Mexico with my concerns about the likely tribal government conspiracy to extort LOBCO and other landowners.

Santa Fe New Mexican journalist, Cormac Dodd used several of interested party's articles to write his piece but chose not to quote its author or include attribution despite an hour-long interview and an entire paper trail but an aging writer did get a couple pictures in the paper.

The closure also would leave the community — one full of solar-powered homes amid rugged but scenic terrain, where New Mexico jazz musician Arlen Asher once lived and where Sam Peckinpah shot Convoy — without critical services, including firefighters and emergency medical responders, residents said. [Santa Fe County community says Santo Domingo Pueblo plans to close major access road]

South Dakota still sucks for students

Source: WalletHub

Today in red state failure: South Dakota is 50th in financial education performance and access, 49th in financial education growth, 49th in high school financial literacy, 48th in high schools ranked in the top 10% and 48th in projected high school financial literacy grade by 2028. 

Recall Earth hating former South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds won election to the US Senate for advocating the dissolution of the US Department of Education and sponsored a bill that would eradicate the DoEd, curtail federal funding for kids and South Dakota still hates teachers. 

Students in South Dakota are sixth in overall rank of those in debt, suffer that load at the highest proportion in the US and the Bendagate state is 40th in grant and work opportunities rank.