Lower Brule News

A sign marks the Lower Brule Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The tribe is making its mark on Wall Street with the acquisition of the Westrock Group.

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota has been selected to receive a grant of $940,000 from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Prior Lake, Minn.

South Dakota tribal leaders meeting this week with President Obama in Washington, D.C., will ask for help in agriculture, housing, health, law enforcement - even the return of the Black Hills.

At some point, the dolls that Linda Nelson was creating became real to her. High Bear evolved into a chief, the leader of his people.

Stimulus dollars are going to build a $25 million adult jail on the Rosebud Reservation, but the money for properly operating it isn't guaranteed at this point.

A company owned by the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota says it has bought New York-based financial services firm Westrock Group Inc.

SIOUX FALLS - A holding company owned by the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe has purchased Westrock Group Inc., a New York-based financial services holding company.

A campaign conversation with the man who would become president of the United States has some Sioux leaders thinking they might finally get part of their sacred Black Hills back.

By Lucy Halverson A new school year kicks off Wednesday, August 19 at Lyman School sites.A Monday, teachers and staff gathered for a staff pre-school meeting and lunch.

The South Dakota Grasslands Coalition will host an instructional program on grazing methods Sept.

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe will from recently announced federal funding. The Indian Tribal Organizations and States operating the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations will receive about $1 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to purchase equipment and improve facilities needed to provide food assistance, U.S.

Ten miles south of Lower Brule, in a ramshackle collection of trailers called Melfunction Junction, Peggy Michalek is selling beer and wine coolers again.

The 65-year-old Jandreau says he has watched many people - including his own relatives - die of alcohol abuse.

Certainly, prohibition is nothing new. As a matter of fact, there are several counties across the nation that currently ban alcohol sales.

The Army Corps of Engineers will soon be kicking off a series of public meetings in the Missouri River basin on a plan to restore the river's ecosystem.

MISSION - When Russ Masartis drives by the ball diamond at Horse Creek, he sees young people with few other options for entertainment using it.

South Dakota's long legal fight with the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe over the tribe's ability to buy land and place it in federal trust could affect tribal economic development across the country.

To be honest, I wasn't sure how many would actually show up at the Shrine Mosque in Sioux Falls Sunday evening for the very first South Dakota Rock and Roll Music Association hall of fame induction ceremony and dance.

A South Dakota teenager is on the threshold of a promising career as a professional boxer.

" Chamberlain High School. Erica plans to major in Pre-Pharmacy at SDSU. Megan Meier - " Lyman High School.