Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2014
Black Hills History.  Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Concentration on the Black Hills by Charles Rambow Reprinted from South Dakota History-SD State Historical Society and Board of Cultural Preservation Qtrly Winter 1973 Click Here to Read More
Unequal pay, retaliation alleged in Lakota woman's lawsuit against Crescent Electric Supply Company. March 22, 2014 - A Rapid City woman is claiming a local company, including several of its top administrators, sexually discriminated against her by paying her less than her male co-workers, for performing commensurate sales duties, and then denying her any sales commissions for the contracts she won. She was then, allegedly, retaliated against by company officials when she complained. Lisa Davis is seeking actual and punitive damages from Crescent Electric Supply Company for what she calls the company's "reckless disregard" of her federally protected rights, under the. Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Davis, who had worked at the electric supply company since 2005, filed the lawsuit in February, 2012 in the United States District Court. In the petition, Davis claims that after successfully working in a clerical position for
Science Meets Tradition and Benefits Culture by Christina Rose Students gather around a homemade river and banks to see the effects damming has on land at a program organized by Misty Brave. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/01/17/science-meets-tradition-and-benefits-culture-153077 1/17/14  |  Ellsworth Chytka, Ihanktowan, is an elderly man from Yankton, South Dakota. When asked about technology, he told a story about a woman he knew who was driving and told her children, “Look at the sunset!” The children looked up, admired it briefly, and went back to their iPads and smart phones. The mother sighed and said again, “Look at the sunset!” They looked up again, took pictures of it with their devices, and went back to their games. The woman stopped the car and made the children get out, and said, “Look at the sunset!” “When you look at it, it goes inside you. People hardly go outside anymore, it is part of becoming emotionless; and that’s why