The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle — and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For ...

The jubilant sounds of music and fireworks on the “Centennial Fourth” had barely faded away when newspaper editors and telegraph operators began spreading alarming reports of a major defeat suffered ...

Though the 150th anniversary of Lt. Col. George Custer's defeat by Lakota Sioux, Arapaho and Northern Cheyenne warriors — ...

The June 1876 firefight resulted in the deaths of George Armstrong Custer and 267 of his men. Historians continue to debate exactly how the Lakota Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne secured their victory ...

KEARNEY, Nebraska — Father Art Faesser considers his living room his sanctuary. A small crucifix hangs on the wall. So, too, does an elaborate Sioux dress, a cradle board, drums, a buffalo head and ...

Red Horse, “Untitled from the Red Horse Pictographic Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn” (1881), graphite, colored pencil, and ink (NAA MS 2367A, 08571100, National Anthropological Archives, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When Peter Hill’s daughter was born two years ago, he made a conscious decision to only speak Lakota to her. Hill, who is fluent in Lakota after learning it as a second language, ...

The return of artifacts from the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota will help Lakota Sioux elders start to heal from their trauma, and give young people a chance to learn about their history, says ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Members and friends of the Oglala Lakota Sioux want Denver-area students to know more about the tribe than its battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

On June 25 and 26, 1876, warriors of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho nations defeated Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Americans ...

FORT POLK, La. (Army News Service, Sept. 23, 2008) -- Fort Polk's 5th Aviation Battalion has been flying the Army's new utility helicopter for a year, and Monday pilots had a chance to meet the ...