The call to activism may have been born into Nick Tilsen, literally as part of his DNA. Tilsen's parents met during the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, where Oglala Lakota Sioux people and American ...

PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, S.D. (KELO) — Pain and trauma weigh heavily on the hearts of the people who call the Pine Ridge Reservation home. “I’m tired of all this unnecessary pain and hurt here on this ...

The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a fight for ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. An organization that 15 years ago helped to open the first ...

Campaign slogans and political promises ring hollow here on the Pine Ridge reservation, in part because residents say they’ve seen it all before. In 1999, then-President Bill Clinton visited this ...

VENTURA - A North Iowa school district is reaching out to help impoverished people living on a South Dakota Indian Reservation. Nineteen Ventura High School seniors leave today on a senior trip to the ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- In July 1999, President Bill Clinton honored Geraldine Blue Bird for taking in anyone who needed a meal or a place to stay, despite her own poverty. Twenty-eight adults and ...

Local film production company Linn Productions was involved in the making of a 20/20 special report with Diane Sawyer that will air Friday night on ABC. They are planning a local event where people ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The only suicide prevention outreach program on a South Dakota Indian reservation where at least 15 young people have killed themselves this year will end in December due to ...