KYLE, S.D. — The yearning to be on family land was so strong for Leatrice Wilson that she left thriving metropolitan Denver to live in the nation’s poorest county on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
What images come to mind when you think of life on a reservation? Isolated lands, scarce resources, and hardship? It’s time to challenge these stereotypes. Long before European settlement, Native ...
Tribal leaders from Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas are calling for a federal Marshall Plan to deal with the growing health crisis on High Plains Indian reservations. They ve rebuilt Germany, they ve ...
MORONGO INDIAN RESERVATION (Dec. 8, 2023) – The Morongo Band of Mission Indians gathered today with public safety officials and elected leaders to break ground on a new state-of-the-art Morongo Fire ...
FORT MOJAVE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. – The barren landscape of the Fort Mojave reservation south of Hoover Dam receives less than seven inches of rain a year. It’s a tough place to eke out a living, ...
BROWNING — They call it Moccasin Flats, though the street sign marks it as Third Avenue Southwest. This neighborhood, just a few blocks away from Browning Elementary School, represents the worst of ...
Set in early 20th-century Oklahoma on the Osage Indian Reservation, Martin Scorsese’s film “Killers of the Flower Moon” highlights how newly discovered oil became a curse for Osage who held ...
The speaker might have been Negro militant James Forman. Except that his face was not black; the state he was attacking was South Dakota; and instead of a beard, his distinctive marks were a red ...
PINE RIDGE, S.D. Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang. One 15-year-old member ...