Tribal interests represented on social studies workgroup

Fifteen people, including a representative of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, have been appointed to serve on a state Dept. of Education workgroup tasked with reworking the social studies standards used in schools.

The group is the second put together by the DOE in the last year to work on the standards, which were last adopted in 2015 and must be reviewed every seven years. Last year, nearly four …