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South Dakota was awarded a $518,000 grant from the Federal Office of Violence Against Women to improve criminal justice responses on domestic violence.
Information varies on whether WARN was founded in 1974 in Rapid City, South Dakota, [1] or founded in 1978 in San Francisco, California. [10] [11] Prior to forming their own organization, some of the women who founded WARN were activists working within the American Indian Movement (AIM) and were active in the Wounded Knee Insurrection of 1973. [1]
In January 2003, a fourth federal grand jury was called in Rapid City to hear testimony about the murder of Aquash. She was known to have been given a ride from the home of Troy Lynn Yellow Wood of Denver on December 10, 1975, by AIM members Arlo Looking Cloud, John Graham and Theda Nelson Clarke, who transported her to Rapid City, South Dakota ...
Sen. Helene Duhamel, R-Rapid City, said she has full confidence that Wasko, a nurse by training who came to the job of secretary in South Dakota after decades in corrections in Colorado, will not ...
During the trial, Nichols-Ecoffey testified about several incidents of violence involving the American Indian Movement. Three of these incidents were The Custer Courthouse Riot Incident which involved several hundred people, the seventy-one day occupation of Wounded Knee , and a shoot-out near her home, during which two FBI agents were killed ...
Registration is now open for the 2024 Northeast South Dakota Family Violence Prevention Conference, scheduled for Oct. 16-17 at the Dakota Event Center in Aberdeen. Tickets can be purchased online ...
The investigation revealed that VanderGiesen had been taken to Wright's home, where she had been murdered, burned, and dismembered with a chainsaw. Wright was the first woman in South Dakota history to face the death penalty, but following the trial, she was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
In 1967, physician Benjamin Munson opened an illegal abortion clinic in Rapid City. [26] He was arrested and charged in 1969 for performing an illegal abortion on a 19-year-old woman. Munson appealed his conviction and won at the circuit court, but after the state appealed the decision, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled against him