Wounded-Knee News

Who are Ohetica Win Elyxis Gardner, 13; Alexandria White Plume, 14; and Winter Rose Thomas, 15? If you don't know you are not alone.

Posted by: David Newquist - 10/17/2009 11:21 PM South Dakota likes to claim inspiration for L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on which the movie, The Wizard of Oz was based.

This isn't the first time the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee has passed a resolution apologizing to Native Americans for past injustices by the United States government.

This isn't the first time the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee has passed a resolution apologizing to Native Americans for past injustices by the United States government.

The Fourth Annual Wounded Knee Memorial Motorcycle Ride will honor and remember those killed in Wounded Knee, S.D. in 1890 Friday and Saturday with a two-day motorcycle ride on the Chief Big Foot trail.

The ride is conducted in memory of the estimated 300 American Indians who were killed by the U.S. Cavalry in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota.

South Dakota's history makes the state stand out; Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, and The Lewis and Clark Trail all put us on the map.

This is a letter to the young man in a red hat driving a silver, open-topped jeep with two young women passengers on 21st Street in Sioux Falls on June 9 who shouted to my daughter, 'White power!' and gave the Hitler salute.

Written by DWAIN CAMP This is not a story of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in that cold winter in 1973.

The University of South Dakota is inviting middle and high school teachers to the 2009 Dakota Writing Project Holocaust Institute July 26-31. The institute explores the Holocaust and Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 and aims to help teachers and their students appreciate the importance of tolerance, acceptance and respect of all cultures, organizers ...

A Native American woman from Wounded Knee won a historic ruling in federal court based on a century-old treaty between the U.S. government and the Oglala Sioux Tribe after she was sexually assaulted by a military recruiter.

A free special viewing of the recently aired final episode of the PBS five-part series 'We Shall Remain' will be shown at 4 p.m. on Thursday in the ballroom of the Muenster University Center, at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion.

On Monday in Rapid City, protestors line up in front of the Federal Courthouse, arguing on behalf of a man in federal prison, saying his constitutional rights were violated.