South Dakota was the first state to officially recognize Native Americans' Day instead of Columbus Day 35 years ago.

Three Indian parents, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe filed a class-action lawsuit to challenge the continued removal of Indian children in Pennington County, South Dakota from ...

Sioux descendants have filed a lawsuit against the United States for federal recognition of their tribe, and for monetary ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase 40 acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, the site of one of the deadliest massacres in ...

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) — As North Dakota residents resoundingly decided to scrap their flagship university’s Fighting Sioux nickname, the response was far murkier in Sioux County ...

The voters of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe elected their first female president on Thursday. According to unofficial results posted late Thursday night, tribal council member Kathleen Wooden Knife ...

After all nine South Dakota tribes unified over the banishment of Gov. Kristi Noem, one tribe is again asking for solidarity as it takes a stance against the state's highest elected official. Oglala ...

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 ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is the latest tribal government to ban South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from their reservation in response to allegations she's made that some ...

Leaders of 11 northern Great Plains Indian tribes have voted to reaffirm their support of the NCAA's policy calling for elimination of American Indian nicknames, logos and mascots at member colleges ...