9 hrs ago | KOTA-TV Rapid City
Pine Ridge's only grocery store to be vacated
The Oglala Sioux Tribe has revoked the building lease for the only grocery store on Pine Ridge because of continued complaints about spoiled food.
9 hrs ago | KOTA-TV Rapid City
Test results prove ignition interlock devices are effective in SD
It's a program aimed to combat drinking and driving in South Dakota. But is it working? The ignition interlock devices were added to the 24/7 Sobriety Program in October.
2 Pine Ridge students earn Gates Millennium Scholarships
PINE RIDGE — Two students at a school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have been awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
BIA Summit Focuses On Child Placement
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.
New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions
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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To whom does Wounded Knee belong?
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.