“The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance” by Rebecca Clarren intertwines her Jewish ancestors’ immigration story, the United States government's history of broken treaties with tribal nations, and the Lakota’s dispossession of land into a hard-hitting ... Read More
Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler said Republicans at the recent state convention showed they ... Read More
A coalition of 14 tribes across the Northern Great Plains has been awarded $135,580,000 by ... Read More
Talking about her granddaughter’s death is never easy, but it’s something Carmen White Horse said ... Read More
On March 13, I sent a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Great Plains Regional Director, Tim LaPointe, regarding the State of North Dakota’s taxation of Allottee lands on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. To date, I have ... Read More
A recent screening of “We Ride For Her” ignited conversations around the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis. An epidemic of more than 5,500 missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls persists across the United States, according to the Native ... Read More
The energy and buzz in the air is electric on the first day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the second largest nongovernmental gathering hosted by the international organization. The area around the Vienna Café in first ... Read More
Beverly “Bev” Stabber Warne often reflected on memories of her grandfather drumming and singing at the crack of dawn and at sunset. She was born in a traditional way, beside a creek surrounded by her Lakota culture, and despite living ... Read More
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
