The White House answered by sending in several thousand troops. Indian agent James McLaughlin believed Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull was “the high priest” and chief instigator of the ...

newspapers were quick to place the blame on the Lakota. “Indian treachery once more made manifest,” the headline in the Lincoln, Nebraska, State Journal read. Federal troops had killed between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants ... conflict between the American government and Plains Indians. At his second presidential inauguration in 1873, Ulysses ...

Joseph Marshall III, a member of the Sicangu Oyate tribe, grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, ...

The filmmakers of this emotionally powerful documentary followed Delwin Fiddler Jr. as he returned home to South Dakota after years in Philadelphia — then kept revisiting him for more than a decade.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN “I Chose to Serve Because of My Mother. I Wanted to Make Her Proud.”—Chief Warrant Officer Two Misty Dawn Lakota Misty Dawn Lakota (Oglala Lakota) has ...