Documentary filmmaking is emerging as her focus, work that she is exploring as a member of the 2024-26 Rural Regeneration ...

Some Native American reservations span more territory than entire U.S. states. This is a fact that surprises many. These are ...

“The opening of the Sioux Indian lands is developing them from that of the homes of indolent dependents of the government to the farm residences of thrifty Americans,” ran a 1908 article about ...

This is land the Lakota Sioux call Paha Sapa, the Black Hills. To them, ... Home to the Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux, Pine Ridge has an unemployment rate of 85%.

Last September, the 60-bed Oglala Sioux Lakota Nursing Home — on tribal land adjacent to the reservation in Whiteclay, Neb. — opened its doors.

Lakota expansion eventually brought them to the Black Hills of western South Dakota, which they declared their "sacred home." This was more than two centuries after Europeans arrived in North America.

The ancient cottonwood, now known by the Lakota Sioux as the Witness Tree, still towers above the grasslands. Blue Water Creek cuts a crooked path through a broad valley, its waters still pristine.

Lakota minister takes on Oglala Sioux Tribe over park plan. 0 Comments Share this. ... That plan calls for removing him and others from land they have called home for decades.

Grondahl: Lakota girl returning to ancestral land 123 years after her death in Albany. ... She made a vow to get the girl home, back to her South Dakota Sioux reservation.

Sioux Indians Want Land, Not Millions. Impoverished Tribe Won't Settle for Government Ownership of Black Hills. October 14, 2001. By ...

The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Lakota-Sioux, has one of the highest poverty rates and shortest life expectancies in the United States. Over 80 percent of adults are ...