There the Native Americans would live on the newly-created Great Sioux Reservation. But not all of them went. Although many did move, they frequently traveled seasonally to pursue better hunting ...

In 1874, when gold was discovered in South Dakota’s Black Hills—the heart of the Great Sioux reservation—thousands of prospectors swarmed into the region. Eventually, the Lakota and Cheyenne left the ...

in exchange for the Great Sioux Reservation in what’s now South Dakota, including the Black Hills. The U.S. nonetheless facilitated mining expeditions into the Black Hills. Once gold was ...

A federal judge has allowed 13 more Republican-led states to intervene as co-defendants in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s new lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.