Wounded-Knee News

It's been 40 years since American Indian activists ended their occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., but thanks to them, life has improved in Indian country.

A 27-year-old Rapid City man has been sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a teenage girl.

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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.

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.

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.

Forty years after the 73-day occupation at Wounded Knee, there is still lots of pain and many questions about what truly happened.