The call to activism may have been born into Nick Tilsen, literally as part of his DNA. Tilsen's parents met during the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, where Oglala Lakota Sioux people and American ...

PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, S.D. (KELO) — Pain and trauma weigh heavily on the hearts of the people who call the Pine Ridge Reservation home. “I’m tired of all this unnecessary pain and hurt here on this ...

VENTURA - A North Iowa school district is reaching out to help impoverished people living on a South Dakota Indian Reservation. Nineteen Ventura High School seniors leave today on a senior trip to the ...

Campaign slogans and political promises ring hollow here on the Pine Ridge reservation, in part because residents say they’ve seen it all before. In 1999, then-President Bill Clinton visited this ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Overall poverty and health issues continue for the Native American people in South Dakota on this annual Native Americans’ Day in the state. One example of health challenges ...

Local film production company Linn Productions was involved in the making of a 20/20 special report with Diane Sawyer that will air Friday night on ABC. They are planning a local event where people ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The only suicide prevention outreach program on a South Dakota Indian reservation where at least 15 young people have killed themselves this year will end in December due to ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — In July 1999, when a sitting U.S. president visited an Indian reservation for the first time in 63 years, Geraldine Blue Bird was in the spotlight. As he heard about conditions on ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Nellie Two Bulls clearly remembers Robert Kennedy’s visit to the Pine Ridge Reservation more than 30 years ago. On that day in the 1960s, Kennedy intensely watched an elderly woman ...