Editor’s Note: Joe Brings Plenty Sr. approved use of photos prior to publication. In death, Cole Brings Plenty – a bright light among the Lakota and Indian Country –  united family, friends, relatives, tribal leaders, the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation ... Read More

Mona Susan Power reveals an ancestral story of healing and strength in her latest novel “A Council of Dolls.”  It tells of three Native Yanktonai women as they navigate through the perils of the Indian boarding schools, assimilation and the massacre ... Read More

A 35-year-old, Native-led nonprofit organization is taking steps toward reuniting youth with sacred sites. On April 11, the Cheyenne River Youth Project announced that it had purchased 40 acres of land adjacent to Bear Butte State Park in Meade County, South ... Read More

Sitting in a photography course at Black Hills State University, Eunice Straight Head was the only Indigenous person in the room. Being the only Indigenous student was intimidating, but Black Hills State University photography professor Steve Babbitt sat the Cheyenne River ... Read More

With decades of experience, Reno Red Cloud knows more than anyone about water on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. As climate change makes fire season on the reservation — which covers more than 2 million acres — more ... Read More

This piece was first printed Nov. 30, 2023 in The Objective as part of the Civic Media Series: A project of The Objective and Free Press, with members of the Future of Local News Collective. You can read the series ... Read More

This article was first published Feb. 7, 2024 in the City Bureau. Over the past eight years, the Documenters Network has grown from free, accessible trainings at public library branches in Chicago to a movement for participatory civic media spanning fifteen ... Read More

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe announced it joined four other Lakota tribes in banning South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.  Noem’s banishment was announced through a statement from the tribal council on April 11 in response to a string of allegations made by ... Read More

The third annual Native Storytelling Workshop will take place June 9-12 at the University of Kansas (KU) campus in Lawrence, Kan. in partnership with the Indigenous Journalists Association. The workshop will bring Indigenous high school students from across the country to ... Read More