Pine Ridge News

December 29 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Wounded Knee. This 1890 conflict is what many people call the last battle of the Indian wars in the United States.

Regarding the story "Indian mascot ire simmers/Commission wants schools to nix names" : I grew up in Nebraska during the 1940s to the early 1960s, near the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

Jessica Yee is a multiracial youth of Native descent who was called to the line of action by raising controversy in her Catholic school and began volunteering at Homeward Family Shelter at the age of 12.

When Dee Brown wrote his book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," he could not have known that it would become a classic.

Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.

Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:52 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:52 p.m. PINE RIDGE, S.D. At 24, Richard Wilson is practically an elder of the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips gang and one of 5,000 young men from the Oglala Sioux tribe involved with at least 39 gangs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

It's a place where an estimated two out of three people live below the poverty line, where an average man won't live to see his 50th birthday, and children are four-times more likely to be born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for [God] has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.

Several tribal groups in South Dakota are getting grants through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Nebraska lawmakers plan to hold another hearing on alcohol-related problems around Whiteclay where four stores sell about 4 million cans of beer annually.

The lawsuits are beginning to mount up against "spiritual warrior" James Arthur Ray and the latest suit is coming from someone who wasn't even at the sweat lodge retreat that left three people dead and dozens injured.

Two Pine Ridge women have pleaded guilty to stealing from the Red Cloud Indian School's Heritage Center on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Telling Native American leaders, "I'm on your side," President Obama issued an order Thursday instructing federal agencies to do a better job of consulting with tribes on numerous policies affecting Indian Country.

Walter Littlemoon, left in overalls, approximately age 8, poses with his family for a portrait on the Pine Ridge, South Dakota reservation.

Who are Ohetica Win Elyxis Gardner, 13; Alexandria White Plume, 14; and Winter Rose Thomas, 15? If you don't know you are not alone.

Providing clean water for the world is the objective of a silent auction and concert on Nov.

Raquel Rolnik is the U.N.'s new Special Rappoteur on the Right to Adequate Housing.

If one takes a deep look into tribal politics one would find a broad spectrum of inter-relationships that overlap.

28, 2009 PIERRE , S.D. A winter storm developing across much of western and central South Dakota Wednesday evening could bring heavy snow, strong winds and difficult travel conditions.

A federal appeals court is being asked to order a hearing for an 88-year-old federal prisoner who's trying to erase his conviction because he says the alleged child victims in a sexual assault case have recanted their testimony from 16 years ago.