United States President Donald Trump has signed (Dec. 19, 2025) legislation that permanently gives control of 40 acres of ...

KYLE, S.D. — There is no word for art in the Lakota language. But the power of art, in every facet of life, has drawn a boisterous group of moccasin beaders, painters, regalia artists and producers of ...

In an emergency meeting Tuesday July 26, the Oglala Sioux Tribal (OST) Council temporarily suspended all activity of Christian missions on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The OST passed an ...

Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

"As an Indigenous person, as someone who comes from this land, I'm just trying to exist." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled Lakota Nation vs. United ...

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation Dennis Zotigh Two Natives waiting for the fire fight, ...

Today is a sad day in American Indian history -- and in American history. On this day 130 years ago, the federal government broke its own laws and eventually used military force to seize the once-vast ...

About 150 items considered sacred by the Sioux peoples that have been stored at a small Massachusetts museum for more than a century are being returned, museum and tribal officials announced Monday.

The Native American symbol of the North Dakota Highway Department is the profile of a Lakota Indian. Marcellus Red Tomahawk was a warrior who actively fought against non-Indians during the early years ...

BLACK HILLS NATIONAL FOREST, S.D. -- The quiet is broken by the territorial squeaks of prairie dogs. Buffalo lounge in prairies around the bend from pine-covered cliffs. This is land the Lakota Sioux ...