Rapid City Journal

That winter and spring, the Pine Ridge Reservation went through a crisis among its young people that was severe enough that the Oglala Sioux Tribe declared a state of emergency.

The numbers that got reported in the press at the time, in the Argus Leader out of Sioux Falls and the Rapid City Journal, and later in national papers, were more than a hundred suicide attempts among young people on the reservation in the space of a few months, and a number of deaths, most of them teenagers, some of them younger.

The tribe asked for federal help.

Counselors came in.

The best documented stretch of them is from the fall of 1977 on the Standing Rock Reservation in the north part of the state along the Grand River.

That fall, in and around a community called Little Eagle, people started reporting an upright hairy figure, and they reported it in numbers.

The Rapid City Journal covered it, and so did the papers in Bismarck and Mobridge.

The tribal police took it seriously enough to assign an officer to it, a man named Verdell Veo, who spent weeks that autumn taking reports and following up on them, and who was quoted in the press at the time saying he'd seen the thing himself, more than once, and that he didn't know what it was.

We're mourning for Walter and his family right now.

The Rapid City Journal newspaper characterized the tragedy as putting a damper on the festivities.

You fucking think? Really? They said that they are now, because of this tragedy, considering modification to next year's competitive...

They're going to cut the hot dogs in half.

Um, we appreciate what they do for our community.

They're right on Main Street in the old, uh, Rapid City Journal building.

And, uh, so, uh, Rhonda Piercy, Dave Piercy, that whole team with Fork Grill, their board, their staff volunteers are amazing people, uh, doing good work.

So that Community Cafe is such a unique thing, where, you know, you're able to, to, to buy a meal and pay it forward for somebody else.

Tupper is editor-in-chief for South Dakota Searchlight.

Wooster is a journalist who has worked for the Rapid City Journal, SDPB, and Kelo TV, among other news outlets.

We're going to start here where Kevin Woster offers his analysis on the most recent Brian Bang's ad.

He hit back on the points that he was being hit on about socialism and open borders, and he hit some things that I know Democrats probably don't like, and maybe it's gonna cost him some votes, but I think he doesn't have a dark money group.