Post by Okwes on Mar 7, 2006 12:50:10 GMT -5
Indian paper expands to art
By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer
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RAPID CITY -- The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has combined its tribal
newspaper with a contemporary artist gallery to create one of the newest
American Indian businesses in downtown Rapid City.
The Dakota/Lakota Journal has moved its office downtown from the
Rushmore Business Park in eastern Rapid City and now showcases
contemporary Indian artwork, crafts, jewelry and music in the new Our
Nation's Center and Gift Shop.
Arthur Gwynne, general manager, said the new center would be a great way
to promote the newspaper, the Santee Sioux Tribe, the Royal River Casino
in Flandreau and Indian interests.
"We've expanded our universe," Gwynne said.
The operation has kept its main office in Flandreau on in eastern South
Dakota.
Mary Ann High Crane of Rapid City, a walk-in visitor at the new center
and gift shop, said she is a fan of the weekly newspaper.
High Crane said she would collect a month's worth of Dakota/Lakota
Journal newspapers to bundle together to mail to her daughter at
college.
"It's very important to have an Indian newspaper when you're so far from
home," she said.
High Crane, an Oglala Sioux Tribe member, had stopped at Our Nation's
Center open house at its new location at 627 Main St. to meet reporters
and staff and sample the coffee, soup and fry bread.
Musician and powwow announcer Butch Felix serenaded visitors after the
Wednesday ribbon-cutting that included officials from the Rapid City
Chamber of Commerce, newspaper staff and the Flandreau Santee Sioux
Tribe, owner of the Dakota/Lakota Journal.
"I see this paper as a way of getting the happenings of our Native
American people out into the world," Felix said.
While two reporters and an office manager to run the Rapid City center,
the editorial staff, copy desk and production crew remain in Flandreau,
officials said.
Editor Ernestine Chasing Hawk said that the newspaper will cover issues
that tribes on the Northern Plains face daily, including poverty,
unemployment and isolation.
"I see this paper as a united voice to reach our state Legislature and
Washington, D.C.," Chasing Hawk said.
Gwynne, a Boston transplant with South Dakota ties, began managing the
weekly newspaper about five months ago. He said the redesign of the
16-page newspaper has already made an impact on advertising. But it is
the paper's content that will promote the goal of 20 percent growth set
for subscriptions and newsstand sales.
"We wanted a stronger presence here," Gwynne said of the new location.
By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer
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RAPID CITY -- The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has combined its tribal
newspaper with a contemporary artist gallery to create one of the newest
American Indian businesses in downtown Rapid City.
The Dakota/Lakota Journal has moved its office downtown from the
Rushmore Business Park in eastern Rapid City and now showcases
contemporary Indian artwork, crafts, jewelry and music in the new Our
Nation's Center and Gift Shop.
Arthur Gwynne, general manager, said the new center would be a great way
to promote the newspaper, the Santee Sioux Tribe, the Royal River Casino
in Flandreau and Indian interests.
"We've expanded our universe," Gwynne said.
The operation has kept its main office in Flandreau on in eastern South
Dakota.
Mary Ann High Crane of Rapid City, a walk-in visitor at the new center
and gift shop, said she is a fan of the weekly newspaper.
High Crane said she would collect a month's worth of Dakota/Lakota
Journal newspapers to bundle together to mail to her daughter at
college.
"It's very important to have an Indian newspaper when you're so far from
home," she said.
High Crane, an Oglala Sioux Tribe member, had stopped at Our Nation's
Center open house at its new location at 627 Main St. to meet reporters
and staff and sample the coffee, soup and fry bread.
Musician and powwow announcer Butch Felix serenaded visitors after the
Wednesday ribbon-cutting that included officials from the Rapid City
Chamber of Commerce, newspaper staff and the Flandreau Santee Sioux
Tribe, owner of the Dakota/Lakota Journal.
"I see this paper as a way of getting the happenings of our Native
American people out into the world," Felix said.
While two reporters and an office manager to run the Rapid City center,
the editorial staff, copy desk and production crew remain in Flandreau,
officials said.
Editor Ernestine Chasing Hawk said that the newspaper will cover issues
that tribes on the Northern Plains face daily, including poverty,
unemployment and isolation.
"I see this paper as a united voice to reach our state Legislature and
Washington, D.C.," Chasing Hawk said.
Gwynne, a Boston transplant with South Dakota ties, began managing the
weekly newspaper about five months ago. He said the redesign of the
16-page newspaper has already made an impact on advertising. But it is
the paper's content that will promote the goal of 20 percent growth set
for subscriptions and newsstand sales.
"We wanted a stronger presence here," Gwynne said of the new location.