U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, sponsored the legislation in the House, where it passed in January. Sen. Mike Rounds sponsored the legislation in the Senate, where it passed Thursday, with ...

This story has been updated with remarks from Rep. Johnson and the current two elected tribal leaders, Oglala Sioux President ...

A prayer for Leonard Peltier is sung to a drumbeat on June 20, 2024, outside the federal courthouse in Fargo, North Dakota. Demonstrators were calling for the release of Peltier, who was convicted at ...

For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Last week, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said the Republican governor was no longer ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Comments from the Governor’s Office have been added to the bottom of this story. The Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservations together make up an area of ...

(Reuters) - Oglala Sioux Tribe members have voted to end a widely ignored prohibition on alcohol at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, one of the poorest areas in the United States.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe banned South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) from the Pine Ridge Reservation due to her comments about the U.S.-Mexico border. In early February, Noem spoke up about wanting to send ...

We're going to turn to South Dakota now. That's where the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been in a state of emergency for almost two weeks now. This is because of fallout from blizzards, snowmelt ...

Renewable resources could help reservations struggling with power problems. It is a jump from doing office paperwork to building solar power systems, but that is the leap Lorraine Nez is taking to ...

Honoring the peace treaty between the Sioux Nation and the U.S. government. Six weeks covering Native Americans at Standing Rock, North Dakota, protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline presented a ...