By the late 1880s, the Native American Lakota tribe was confined to reservations, their traditional ways of life forbidden, and the buffalo, critical to their survival, were decimated. Left to ...

The next year, at the urging of the region’s Indian agent, President Pierce pardoned the Lakota warriors. The bloody episode ...

This painting, made by a follower of Sitting Bull, shows warriors—figures on horseback carrying lances and shields—within the Lakota way of life. (National Museum of the American Indian ...

We call these folks "Pretendians." To be Native American, you don't claim a tribe; a tribe claims you. I am an enrolled Sicangu Lakota, and my reservation is the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in ...

Morphy's January 24 auction of Western and Native American art, relics and memorabilia held at the Westgate Casino & Resort in Las Vegas drew an engaged roomful of bidders, each intent on claiming a ...

Made by Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota, b. 1958) and Valerie Pourier (Ogala Lakota, b. 1959). Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. 27/215. On view at the National Museum of the American ...

From the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1891, volume 1, pages 179-181. Extracts from verbatim stenographic report of council held by delegations of Sioux with Commissioner of ...

By their fruits you will know them' Out our way, in the heart of what we all (including Native people) call "Indian Country"; ...