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 ...

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 ...

The owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline has become the latest party to join the defense against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s new lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The lawsuit ...