Native Affairs

Native POP in Rapid City is an annual indigenous art market that has traditionally included a catwalk, where artists of the Great Plains showcase their fashion designs.

The U.S. treasury secretary announced the appointment of a Native American woman to a top post and the creation of a new office Tuesday while visiting a South Dakota reservation.

A Two-Spirit Wacipi in Sioux Falls honors indigenous LGBTQ community members.

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe has filed a lawsuit against Lyman County for delaying a redistricting plan that would ensure the election of Native candidates to the county commission.

The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty pledged that the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, would be "set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians."In the 1980 case United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the U.S. Supreme Court found that 1868 treaty had been repeatedly violated by the U.S. government and white settlers.

For two months in 1973, Wounded Knee, in the Pine Ridge reservation, was occupied by members of the American Indian Movement. Leaders of the siege declared the territory an independent Oglala Nation. Members of AIM set up barricades in opposition to racism, corruption, and the policies of then-tribal president Dick Wilson.

Months before the Rapid City demonstrations, city leaders and others were already organizing a tour of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Though many people make the 80-mile drive from Pine Ridge to Rapid City on a weekly basis, the same often isn't true for citizens of Rapid City. The tour was intended as the first step toward better relations between the two communities.

Siouxland Reads author David Heska Wanbli Weiden discusses Winter Counts and why crime fiction might be the current form of social justice literature.

The Heart of All Oral History project is an audio series developed by Little Wound School with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project aims to preserve the oral traditions of the Lakota people and preserve the stories of elders in the community.In a new episode, elders share memories of time at Indian boarding schools, and how those experiences shaped their childhoods.

Mniluzahan Okolakiciyapi Ambassadors worked with leadership of the Red Cloud Indian School to provide Rapid City leadership a tour of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.