Pine Ridge News

A three day summit to explore complaints that a large number of Native American children are being unlawfully removed from their homes and put into non-native foster care wrapped up in Rapid City on Friday.

Oglala Sioux must find nearly $4m to prevent massacre site being sold off, the latest in a series of issues that has the South Dakota tribe's modernisers and traditionalists at loggerheads Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota is one of the poorest areas in the US, with unemployment above 80% and alcoholism rates high.

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The battleground site Wounded Knee is up for sale. Should it be developed as a landmark or left in peace out of respect for the Sioux people who died there? Almost as soon as the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee was over, the battle to define what happened on that bleak December day began.