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 ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former tribal leader in South Dakota to serve nearly two years in prison and pay tens of thousands in restitution after a jury convicted him ...

University of Wyoming developers and their Standing Rock Sioux tribal partners are trying to save the Lakota language, now ...

Below is the 2026 South Dakota State of the Tribes address delivered by Rosebud Sioux Tribe president Kathleen Wooden Knife. Anpetu Waste! Good Morning Friends. I am Kathleen Wooden Knife, President ...

This is FRESH AIR. A new entry in the PBS "Independent Lens" series of documentary films is called "Without Arrows." It's about Delwin Fiddler Jr., a Native American member of the Lakota Sioux Tribe, ...

Named a “legendary Lakota horseman” by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Fred Ecoffey has enjoyed a celebrated 68-year career as a jockey.

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff. He is likely buried on the ...