The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For ...

The jubilant sounds of music and fireworks on the “Centennial Fourth” had barely faded away when newspaper editors and telegraph operators began spreading alarming reports of a major defeat suffered ...

The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate exactly how the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne secured their victory ...

Though the 150th anniversary of Lt. Col. George Custer's defeat by Lakota Sioux, Arapaho and Northern Cheyenne warriors — ...

As the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn approaches, approximately 19 tribes have committed to participating in a commemorative event. This historical tribute is expected to draw thous ...

Red Horse, “Untitled from the Red Horse Pictographic Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn” (1881), graphite, colored pencil, and ink (NAA MS 2367A, 08571100, National Anthropological Archives, ...

EXCLUSIVE: “The Lakota Sioux still believe that it belongs to them, and they want it back.” “It” is the Black Hills, site of Mount Rushmore — which sits on what had been their most sacred spiritual ...

KEARNEY, Nebraska — Father Art Faesser considers his living room his sanctuary. A small crucifix hangs on the wall. So, too, does an elaborate Sioux dress, a cradle board, drums, a buffalo head and ...

The return of artifacts from the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota will help Lakota Sioux elders start to heal from their trauma, and give young people a chance to learn about their history, says ...

THE Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, the site of the battle of Wounded Knee, contains one of the poorest counties in America; and every one of its residents is affected, in some way, by ...