About this story: Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans' disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law enforcement.
Through public records requests, dozens of interviews, the examination of lawsuits and multiple reporting trips to Native American communities both on and off tribal land, reporter Ted McDermott has worked to understand the systemic forces that contribute to this trend — and to hear many personal stories of how these deaths have reverberated within Indigenous communities.
F uture stories will continue to examine fatal encounters that have occurred on and off tribal lands in South Dakota, where such deaths are particularly common.
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Hundreds came out in support of a rally and march on March 23, 2022, that started at Memorial Park and ended at Rapid City's Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building, where it was announced that a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the Grand Gateway Hotel for denying services to Native Americans.
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Rapid City Police Department Assistant Chief Scott Sitts and Chief Don Hedrick talk to the media May 5, 2022, at the police department about body camera footage from a March 26 police shooting. Two officers shot and killed 51-year-old Barney Leroy Peoples Jr. during a home burglary call.
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This 2023 flyer advertises a rally commemorating Barney Peoples.
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Canupa Gluha Mani, of Pine Ridge, holds a flag while speaking at a press conference on May 5, 2022, at Roosevelt Park in Rapid City. Members of Barney Peoples Jr.'s family say the Rapid City Police Department used excessive force when officers shot and killed Peoples during a home burglary.
Kent Bush, Journal staff
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Protesters hold signs and posters against police violence on July 4, 2023, during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice.
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Hundreds came out in support of a march March 23, 2022, that started at Memorial Park and ended at Rapid City's Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building, where it was announced that a civil rights lawsuit was filed against the Grand Gateway Hotel for denying services to Native Americans.
Matt Gade / Journal staff
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NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen addresses the crowd during the March Toward Justice on July 4, 2023.
Darsha Dodge
Journal staff
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NDN Collective action organizer Sunny Red Bear speaks in February 2023.
Darsha Dodge, Journal staff
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NDN Action Network Organizer Sunny Red Bear speaks during a 2023 press conference at the Pennington County Courthouse in Rapid City.
Darsha Dodge
Journal staff
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The Public Safety Building on Kansas City Street in Rapid City houses the Pennington County Sheriff's Office and the Rapid City Police Department.
Sean Ryan, Journal staff
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Local activist Natalie Stites Means speaks during a press conference in Rapid City on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023.
Darsha Dodge
Journal staff
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Natalies Stites Means, Lakota/Dakota, a community leader and activist, speaks at a community meeting on June 28, 2023.
Amelia Schafer
ICT and Journal staff
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The crowd chants during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice on July 4, 2023.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
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A woman wears a "Rapid City vs Racism" cloth on the back of her ribbon skirt Oct. 10, 2022, at the fifth annual Remembering the Children Memorial Walk at Sioux Park.
Siandhara Bonnet, Journal staff
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NDN Collective Action Organizer Sunny Red Bear, right, speaks at the nonprofit's first Rapid City vs. Racism town hall on April 20, 2023, in Rapid City. Anissa Martin, right, also of NDN Collective, stands by her.
Shalom Baer Gee, Journal staff
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Pennington County Sheriff Brian Mueller shakes hands with Rapid City Chief of Police Don Hedrick, after Hedrick was sworn in as a cross-deputized officer.
Matt Gade Journal Staff
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Trinity Peoples, photographed in the Rapid City Public Library in May 2023, has struggled to understand the death of her brother, Barney Peoples, in a shooting by local police.
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Collection: March Toward Justice
A woman leads the crowd in prayer during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice Tuesday.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
Marchers hold signs protesting police violence during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice Tuesday.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
Hundreds gathered for NDN Collective's March Toward Justice around the Public Safety Building and the Pennington County Courthouse on July 4, 2023.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
A marcher holds a sign protesting police violence on July 4, 2023, during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
The crowd chants during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice on July 4, 2023.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
Protesters hold signs and posters against police violence on July 4, 2023, during NDN Collective's March Toward Justice.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
A woman holds a sign at NDN Collective's March Toward Justice on July 4, 2023.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
A child waits for the start of NDN Collective's March Toward Justice Tuesday.
A.J. Etherington, Journal staff
NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen addresses the crowd during the March Toward Justice on July 4, 2023.
Darsha Dodge
Journal staff
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