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

This Sept. 9, 2012 file photo shows The entrance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota Nation viewed on Sept. 9, 2012.

The documentary "Lakota Nation vs. The United States" delves into the century-long struggle of the Lakota people to reclaim ...

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

Even a 1980 Supreme Court decision in favor of the Great Sioux Nation laid bare the unconstitutional misdealings, and recognized the theft of the Black Hills from the Očéti Šakówiŋ.

“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 ...

The new documentary 'Lakota Nation vs. United States' chronicles the Lakota Indians' quest to reclaim the Black Hills, and executive producers Mark Ruffalo and Sarah Eagle Heart along with co ...

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 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.

In Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli’s nearly two-hour documentary, Lakota Nation vs. United States, the filmmaking duo captures the history, present and future hopes of the indigenous ...

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.

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 ...