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 ...

Inside South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, home to the Lakota Sioux, residents speak openly about violence, addiction, poverty, isolation and the lack of opportunities facing young people. The video ...

EXCLUSIVE: “The Lakota Sioux still believe that it belongs to them, and they want it back.” “It” is the Black Hills, site of Mount Rushmore — which sits on what had been their most sacred spiritual ...

“Chokecherries!” Winona Katso shouts from the passenger window. She points to a bush sagging heavy with deep crimson berries just a couple feet away, and the pickup truck she is riding in halts to an ...

KEARNEY, Nebraska — Father Art Faesser considers his living room his sanctuary. A small crucifix hangs on the wall. So, too, does an elaborate Sioux dress, a cradle board, drums, a buffalo head and ...

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

If you are looking for hope in South Dakota, you do not look at numbers and percents and totals. Among the native Lakota people, social issues like alcohol, drug abuse and teen suicide rack up some ...

Lakota Sioux leaders are planning to celebrate a rare event with deep significance: the birth of a white buffalo. Photographer Erin Braaten spotted the calf during a visit to Yellowstone National Park ...

THE Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, the site of the battle of Wounded Knee, contains one of the poorest counties in America; and every one of its residents is affected, in some way, by ...

Hundreds of water protectors gathered in a solar-powered 200-foot geodesic dome nestled on the plains amid tipis and waited three hours to join a traditional Lakota dinner on Thanksgiving. Ancient ...