Sioux

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

Nick Tilsen was arrested for protesting President Trump at Mount Rushmore. Now, his legal troubles are part of a legacy.

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

Thinking beyond the dichotomies of oppressor and victim reveals the human urges that inspire so much of our expressive culture.

Leaked documents reveal coordination between big business and law enforcement to break up last year’s protests at Standing Rock.

Tribal sovereignty is a concept that even some of the protesters may not be familiar with. But it's important.

American Indians and the tumult in their cultures precipitated by the arrival of alcohol.

The role of Red Horse's drawings in the historical narrative of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

"Who shall blame the Sioux for defending themselves, their wives and children, when attacked in their own encampment and threatened with destruction?"

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

Golden prairies of a Minnesota state park also hold the burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans.

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused.

Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has not left.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

Native farming practices and settler-colonial imaginations in the video game "Empire: Total War."

The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation.

The baby boy who would one day become the renowned and feared leader of the Lakotas was the second child of Returns Again and Her Holy Door.

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty.

Let us let the ghosts of the megafauna rise, but let us leave the old imperialists to lie in their graves undisturbed.