Not long after the Civil War, America waged another war, one that's almost been lost to history. It was 1866. Settlers were pouring westward in wagon trains to farm or mine for gold, pushing onto the ...
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 ...
The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous ...
“The Sioux say this officer was the bravest man they had ever fought.” — Sioux Chief Red Horse, 1881. “History is not history unless it is the truth.” — Abraham Lincoln, 1856. We’ve all heard the ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Russell Means spent a lifetime as a modern American Indian warrior. He railed against broken treaties, fought for the return of stolen land and even took up arms against the ...
Dog's Backbone died 127 years ago at the Little Bighorn while fighting to protect his family and the generations of his people to come. Thursday, in ceremonies dedicated to the Minniconjou war ...
NEBRASKA (Lincoln Journal Star) — All she wanted, at first, was her great-grandfather’s birth date. Nobody in Lilla Pearl Asmund’s family knew, and she’s been trying to teach her nieces and nephews ...
The Sioux County Warriors faced off with the Minatare Indians Friday, earning wins for both the boys and girls of Harrison. The boys picked up their first win of the season in a 56-43 victory, while ...
In classrooms and school assemblies across the Sioux Falls School District this week, students get to hear stories from Mark Mindt, a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation, North Dakotan educator ...