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As part of the Obama Administration's continued investment in economic development in communities around the country through the Recovery Act, Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Director Donna J. Gambrell today announced $8 million in financial assistance awards for 10 CDFIs committed to serving economically distressed ...

Activists plan a blockade on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation north of Whiteclay, Neb., home to several outlets that sell beer to residents of the dry reservation.

An appeals court says the Oglala Sioux Tribe cannot pursue a legal challenge that sought to prevent the federal government from transferring land along the Missouri River to the state of South Dakota.

An appeals court on Friday refused to reinstate the Oglala Sioux Tribe's lawsuit that sought to prevent the federal government from transferring thousands of acres of land along the Missouri River to the state.

Published 26 Jun 2009, 10:22 am - - Filed under Subversive Historian The Incident at Oglala Back in the day on June 26th, 1975, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams followed a red pick-up truck onto the Jumping Bull Ranch on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

The Office of Indian Education became the Bureau of Indian Education on Aug. 29, 2006.

South Dakota tribal leaders have listened for years to federal officials who promise to confront the challenge of providing adequate health care to Native Americans, primarily through the chronically underfunded Indian Health Service.

About 100 protesters took part Saturday in the 10th annual March For Justice from Pine Ridge, SD, to Whiteclay, NE.

The Oglala Sioux and Crow Creek reservations are getting help with timber and dentistry through a military training exercise.

Watch "Dirty Dancing" at 10 p.m. on WE. PREV of NEXT VESTRON PICTURES 1987 Cynthia Rhodes and Patrick Swayze star as dance instructors at a Catskill Mountain Resort in the musical love story "Dirty Dancing." Television RSS feed "Dirty Dancing" A great movie for a summer night.

The United States House Appropriations Committee approved representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's proposed $1.2 million in tribal law enforcement funding for the 2010 budget.

OKMULGEE, Okla. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Muscogee Nation Festival in Okmulgee, Okla.

Horses and riders have left Fort Robinson State Park on their way to Pine Ridge as part of the 12th annual Crazy Horse Ride.

The federal government is taking the Oglala Sioux Tribe to court, claiming the tribe owes nearly $360,000 from a federal grant.

Former United States Senator Jim Abourezk once said, "There are only two jobs in this country that I would never want: president of the United States and president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe." The man knew of what he spoke! Theresa "Huck" Two Bulls was elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe by majority vote over Russell Means less than six ...

Visitors approaching the Badlands from the east will be struck by the panorama of weird rock formations and the apparently endless sea of prairie.

Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists had seized the few major buildings in town and police had cordoned off the area.

A 1963 poster for a Joan Baez/Bob Dylan concert at New Haven Arena; a pair of 18th-century silk shoes purportedly worn by one of George Washington's dance partners; and a collection of 200-year-old Wedgwood pottery buttons.

A 1963 poster for a Joan Baez/Bob Dylan concert at New Haven Arena; a pair of 18th-century silk shoes purportedly worn by one of George Washingtona s dance partners; and a collection of 200-year-old Wedgwood pottery buttons.

TV critic Mike Hughes offers his top choices for Monday night viewing A week before the finale, crises pile up.