Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

On Dec. 29, 1890, the Lakota people began a religious ritual called the Ghost Dance that Congress had outlawed. The cavalry ...

This Day in History. On Dec. 29, 1890, one of the darkest chapters in United States history unfolded on the frozen plains of ...

Sunday marked 134 years since a "brutal, cold-blooded massacre" of the Indigenous Lakota Sioux people of the Great Plains, a tragedy that drew more scrutiny from the U.S. government in recent months.

United States President Donald Trump has signed (Dec. 19, 2025) legislation that permanently gives control of 40 acres of ...

Tradition can be such a misunderstood word. In popular parlance, it often refers to something incredibly old that has been passed down, unchanged, for centuries. Great age supposedly gives it weight ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (KTIV) - Jerome Kill Small, a retired Oglala Lakota educator, will speak during a presentation in South Sioux City. On Thursday, July 17, at 6 p.m., a presentation, named “Songs ...