‘MniKa’Ta’ group brings native traditions, hopes for permanent home to share culture

  • Newly-elected Board (L to R) Sargent-at-Arms Thomas Ghost Dog, Sr., Treasurer Judith McPherson, Secretary Bethany Cook, Co-chair Danialle Rose (missing: Co-chair Clinton Tiden and Vice-chair Lynette Roberts). Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    Newly-elected Board (L to R) Sargent-at-Arms Thomas Ghost Dog, Sr., Treasurer Judith McPherson, Secretary Bethany Cook, Co-chair Danialle Rose (missing: Co-chair Clinton Tiden and Vice-chair Lynette Roberts). Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
  • So many newcomers joined the latest meeting at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church fellowship hall that extra tables and chairs were needed. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    So many newcomers joined the latest meeting at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church fellowship hall that extra tables and chairs were needed. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    HOT SPRINGS – After almost a year of regular meetings, community outreach and consensus-based decision-making, ‘MiniKa’Ta’ Oyate’ — ‘Hot Springs Family’ in the Lakota language — has officially launched, electing its first Board, targeting its first grants, and planning a calendar of events for 2025 (inaugurated by the January PowWow at the Hot Springs school).With so ma...

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