The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff.

Editor’s note: When L. Frank Baum and other white settlers arrived in Aberdeen, South Dakota in the 1880s, they were entering land that had been part of the homeland of the Western Sioux or Lakota.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase 40 acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, the site of one of the deadliest ...

U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, has reintroduced a bill to Congress that would place 40 acres at the Wounded Knee Massacre site in South Dakota into restricted-fee status ...

RAPID CITY - Rapid City rolled out the red carpet Thursday evening for the premiere of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," the new HBO film adaptation of historian Dee ...

WOUNDED KNEE, South Dakota — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed each night in a frontline ...

The tribe says on Feb. 7, the body of a 24-year-old man was found in the Wounded Knee community. The man had been last reported seen on Feb. 6. The incident is currently under investigation by the ...

A bill reintroduced by Sens. Mike Rounds and John Thune to protect land at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre is advancing through the Senate. Rounds reintroduced the bill, SB 105, to the ...

June 18, 2011 — -- Police in South Dakota are trying to figure out how an Old West shootout that was supposed to be the entertainment at a fundraiser wound up putting three people in the ...

Hunts Horse, of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, was sentenced Tuesday, July 30 to at least 88 years in prison for the 2023 murder of Todd Scherer of Lincoln at Fonner Park in Grand Island.