Oglala News

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tribal representatives walked out of a meeting with U.S. State Department officials who came to Rapid City to discuss concerns about the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Last month, a new building joined the Washington Monument and the Capitol building on the National Mall.

In February of 1973 the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization , led by Vern Long and Pedro Bissonette invited the American Indian Movement to the Pine Ridge Reservation to help fight against massive human rights violations being committed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police and the Tribal Government.

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A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by dilapidated structures and hundreds of gravesites - many belonging to Native Americans massacred more than a century earlier.

Leonardo DiCaprio is revealing why he wanted to play F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic character in the anticipated big-screen spin on The Great Gastsby.

Brookings senior Elliot Johnson is visiting the NYSE tomorrow to mark Allstate Insurance's 20th anniversary of being listed on the exchange.

Two South Dakota priests disagree. They have been on the road for the last couple days on a huge bike ride.

The Veterans Administration Midwest Health Care Network director, Janet P. Murphy, ends the flap over confederate flags at the Hot Springs VA Medical Center.

7, 2012 file photo shows a cross on a grave at the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in South Dakota.

A Rapid City man who's owned the piece of Native American history for more than 40 years hopes the Oglala Sioux Tribe will take over the land and buy it from him.

RAPID CITY – Native American activists say they will protest if someone buys and tries to develop a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark that sits next to where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890 are buried.

The battleground site Wounded Knee is up for sale. Should it be developed as a landmark or left in peace out of respect for the Sioux people who died there? Almost as soon as the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee was over, the battle to define what happened on that bleak December day began.

MARTIN — A woman has won more than $1 million playing a slot machine at a South Dakota casino.

In February of 1973 the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization , led by Vern Long and Pedro Bissonette invited the American Indian Movement to the Pine Ridge Reservation to help fight against massive human rights violations being committed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police and the Tribal Government.

A landowner trying to sell a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in South Dakota said Monday he has three offers from West Coast-based investment groups for the land that sits adjacent to where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890 are buried.