What started out as a small roundup attended mainly by ranchers has expanded into a spectacle that includes a Buffalo Roundup Arts Festival, exhibits of Native American and Western arts, crafts, musicians, dancers and poets, and educational programs.
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Oglala Lakota community leader, Nick Tilsen, envisions a vibrant future for his people. He sees elements of that transformation already in place on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Frank LaMere, human-rights advocate, executive director of Four Directions Community Center, in Sioux City, Iowa, and member of the Winnebago Tribe...
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
"Visitors always ask, 'where's the turquoise?' " said Myrtle Cedar Face, the manager of a Pine Ridge Indian Reservation gift shop. You won't find Navajo rugs or Pueblo pottery either.
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
During a recent special session of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation's Shannon County Commission, images of another encounter slipped across the action. B...
Stephanie Woodard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Native Americans have long faced police harassment and illegal voter challenges in South Dakota. Those problems may soon be over because South Dakota has no plan to provide any voting at all in this fall's election.
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
There has been a big push of late to re-awaken the language, and it has been a fight for the Lakota instructors to get the young people to respond to their message.
Tim Giago | Posted 12.02.2011 | Culture