Lakota

What roiled the mind of Nebraska poet John Neihardt with whom Black Elk, the iconic Lakota holy man, shared his story?

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.

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

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

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

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

A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting.

How much truth and healing can forensic tech really bring? On the sites of Native American tragedies, Marsha Small has made it her life’s mission to find out.

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 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.

Perhaps no Native American is more admired for military acumen than the Lakota leader. But is that how he wanted to be remembered?

How best to tell the story of oppressed peoples? By chronicling the hardships they’ve faced? Or by highlighting their triumphs over adversity?

In this modern Indigenous kitchen, every dish is made without any ingredient introduced to the continent after Europeans arrived.

The Rapid City flood helped define pervasive environmental injustice and catalyze action.

The story of the 1890 massacre was often about the end of Native American resistance to US expansion. But that’s not how everyone told it.

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee.

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

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

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.