By 1908, when my ancestors were planting their first crop, Congress had taken or stolen around 98% of the land that an 1851 Treaty said would always be for the Lakota.

Finally curious about what had happened a century ago on the South Dakota prairie, in 2018 I began research for what would eventually become my book, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and An ...

But the Lakota won’t take the money: instead, they want the land back. The Lakota say the US government broke two key treaties, beginning with the Fort Laramie treaty in 1851, guaranteeing them ...

Trump’s plan for a National Statue Garden could get built on sacred Native land currently held by a wealthy South Dakota mining family.

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 ...

Despite decades of colonial violence, extractive greed and invasive Mt. Rushmore tourism, South Dakota’s wondrous Black Hills are fixed in the hearts and minds of those they were taken from, the ...

“The land and the people,” she said, “are inextricably connected. Lakota Nation vs. United States Rated PG-13 for violent images and thematic elements and strong language. Running time: 2 hours.

But somewhere near Lewellen, Nebraska, on what was once Lakota land, Ryan began to feel conflicted. On Sept. 2, 1855, 600 U.S. Army soldiers under command of General William S. Harney massacred half ...