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The Oglala Pet Project
For many on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, life can be tough. The same is true for the animals there. Some pets are abandoned, malnourished and running rampant. But a new organization is reaching out to help both pets and pet owners.  Pine Ridge5/20/2013
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Pine Ridge tribal prison worst for sex abuse
(South Dakota) -- A tribal prison at Pine Ridge was the worst among several prisons and jails cited in a national study for having a high rate of sexual abuse behind...
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Lease Revoked For Pine Ridge's Only Grocery Store
(South Dakota) -- The company that runs the only grocery store in Pine Ridge may be on its way out. It's been one year since the store Sioux Nation Shopping Center...
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OST revokes lease for only grocery on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe has revoked the building lease for the only grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota because of...
5/17/2013
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Creative Solutions May Help Fix Housing Crisis
(South Dakota) -- In Thursday's Eye On KELOLAND, we introduced you to people living through a housing crisis on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It's a big...
5/9/2013
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Vargas brings Dance Fever to Rapid City
(South Dakota) -- A dance event organized by Vaughn Vargas, student at the Oglala Lakota College and board member of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention was held...
5/2/2013
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Native Sun News: Children in Pine Ridge village get place to play
(South Dakota) -- At last count, there were 70 residents living in the community of Red Shirt Village. The colorful HUD houses of the small community are set against the...
4/29/2013
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Native Sun News: Tribes oppose uranium mine near Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- With an April 22 deadline for people to intervene in Powertech (USA), Inc.’s permit application for a tribally- contested uranium mine 50 miles...
4/14/2013
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'Trail of Hope' aims to bring message
(South Dakota) -- A mud-spattered heavy duty pickup hauled away one of the oldest houses on the Pine Ridge reservation on Saturday. The two-bedroom home, a gray wooden...
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South Dakota American Indian tribe hauls house to Washington to showcase housing problems
(South Dakota) -- Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe loaded an old home on a truck trailer and began hauling it to the nation's capital Saturday to demonstrate...
4/8/2013
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Eight Pine Ridge residents indicted on federal drug charges
(South Dakota) -- Eight residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were recently indicted on federal charges for conspiring for 10 years to distribute cocaine and...
4/7/2013
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Naughty names nixed on Pine Ridge reservation
(South Dakota) -- A South Dakota panel charged with scrubbing the state of offensive place names has recommended that two creeks, a dam and two other geographical...
4/2/2013
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Internet Library Opens In Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The Internet has made the world seem like a very small place. But it's a world that's been out of reach for many on the Pine Ridge Indian...
3/29/2013
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Patrick Lee: Why I filed complaint against Oglala Sioux Tribe
(South Dakota) -- Some of you may have heard that the Tribal Council has terminated me as Chief Judge of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Courts on March 11, 2013. As a former...
3/23/2013
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Dozens Tested for HIV on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Native HIV/AIDS Day
(South Dakota) -- Dozens of Oglala Sioux Tribe citizens lined up to be tested on National Native HIV/AIDS Day on at the tribal offices in Pine Ridge, South Dakota on...
3/18/2013
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Native Sun News: Pine Ridge basketball team battles to end
(South Dakota) -- Pine Ridge’s Lady Thorpes picked up two quick wins but that third one would simply be out of reach for a championship. Playing for their first...
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Judge orders jail and probation for Labeaux
(South Dakota) -- The former cultural coordinator for a community development group on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation who was arrested on a drug possession charge...
3/15/2013
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Ivan Starr: Racism rears its head in reservation border towns
(South Dakota) -- As a life-long resident of the Pine Ridge Reservation, and like every tribal member, I have to interact with the people of surrounding communities.
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Meet Richard Black Elk: Lakota Warrior, Proud Teacher for Little Wound School on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- Richard Black Elk’s career path has been a marathon. But the former All-American long-distance runner maintained a steady course to a rewarding...
3/13/2013
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Violence Awareness Walk set for Saturday at Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The public is invited to participate in a Violence Awareness Walk that will be held at noon Saturday at the TERO Office on Main Street in Pine Ridge.
3/11/2013
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A report from Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The last few days of February have been observed on the Pine Ridge reservation every year since 1973 by a four directions walk onto the gravesite at...
3/8/2013
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Dept. of Labor issues warning about Pine Ridge bank
(South Dakota) -- The South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation is warning people that a bank operating on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is not licensed,...
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Native Sun News: Oglala leader prods White House on education
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Tribal President and longtime educator Bryan Brewer has called upon the Obama administration to fulfill its campaign promise to support...
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Pine Ridge reservation school honoring volunteers
(South Dakota) -- A school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is honoring the work of its volunteer staff next week.
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Native Sun News: Pine Ridge girls team lands in basketball final
(South Dakota) -- For the Lady Thorpes, who last year advanced to the State tournament, this win had to be nice. By dispatching a Winner squad who was 16-6, the Lady...
3/7/2013
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Hill crusader trying to save Lakota language – 13 years on Native American reservation in South Dakota
(South Dakota) -- If he went in search of a lifestyle completely different from the privileged one he experienced growing up in Chestnut Hill, with romanticized visions...
3/6/2013
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Native Sun News: 'Last of Hostiles' youth movement takes hold
(South Dakota) -- In the middle of a raging blizzard Shane Montgomery an Oglala Lakota and the founder of ‘The Last of the Hostiles’ youth movement,...
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SDSU, Pine Ridge school create mentoring program
(South Dakota) -- South Dakota State University is partnering with a school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to establish a mentoring program for students.
3/5/2013
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux woman works to protect culture
(South Dakota) -- For Joyce Whiting, who became disconnected from her Lakota culture when she went through the Catholic Boarding Schools, the Oglala Sioux Tribal...
2/27/2013
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Celebrating Native culture, benefiting Native needs
(South Dakota) -- Twenty years earlier, the infant Thomas-Builds-the-Fire was rescued from a house fire by Victor’s father. He sees him as a hero, but Victor only...
2/26/2013
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Former Pine Ridge official pleads guilty to drug charges
(South Dakota) -- A former economic development official on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has pleaded guilty to drug charges.
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Native Sun News: Elders of Oglala Sioux Tribe take on abuse
(South Dakota) -- “What practical steps can be taken to ensure that more healing communication occurs between the Elders, children, and youth of the Oglala Lakota...
2/23/2013
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Bringing Hope To Pine Ridge
(Nebraska) -- Seventeen North Platte St. Patrick's High School students are getting ready to go on a service mission to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Taize brings prayer, reconciliation to Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- When a famous religious community in France brings its worldwide pilgrimage to a tiny church on the Pine Ridge Reservation this May, it hopes to start...
2/7/2013
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Henry Red Cloud Leads the Renewable-Energy Charge at Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- There is a revolution under way to bring renewable resources to Native American people. Led by modern-day warrior Henry Red Cloud, a direct fifth...
1/27/2013
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California coat drive provides jackets for SD kids
(South Dakota) -- Officials on a South Dakota Indian Reservation say a campaign led by an 11-year-old California boy has resulted in the delivery of about 150 winter...
1/22/2013
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Native Sun News: Rage Rocc joins Oglala hip-hop movement
(South Dakota) -- The era of Native American hip hop has arrived with the recent emergence of homegrown Oglala Lakota artist Rage Rocc of Kyle.
1/18/2013
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Programs seeks to train musicians on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- A unique program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation aims to give Oglala Sioux youth an outlet through music.
1/16/2013
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Native Sun News: Pine Ridge rapper starts hip-hop movement
(South Dakota) -- The difficulty of breaking into the music industry is often finding a niche or something new and unique that no other possesses. For underground Oglala...
1/15/2013
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Oglala Sioux president set to return to work
(South Dakota) -- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is scheduled to be back in his office on Wednesday after spending more than two weeks in a hospital.
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Review of reservation deaths complete
(South Dakota) -- The U.S. attorney’s office in South Dakota has finished reviewing a handful of unsolved death cases on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and...
1/13/2013
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US attorney finishes review of a few SD reservation deaths, says some cases should be closed
(South Dakota) -- The U.S. attorney's office in South Dakota has finished reviewing a handful of unsolved death cases on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and...
1/11/2013
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux president remains in hospital
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Tribal President Bryan Brewer continues to recover from injuries he sustained in a one car accident the night of Dec. 29.
1/9/2013
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Review of handful of reservation deaths completed
(South Dakota) -- U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says his office has determined that "some" of the four or five unresolved death cases on the Pine Ridge Indian...
1/8/2013
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Brewer recovering in hospital
(South Dakota) -- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe is scheduled to undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a broken pelvis.
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OST President Brewer to undergo surgery for broken hip
(South Dakota) -- The injuries Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan Brewer suffered last week in a one-vehicle accident are more severe than previously thought, according...
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Lakota daycare gets $4,000 grant
(South Dakota) -- A Lakota language immersion childcare program for infants and toddlers has received a $4,000 grant.
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Lakota Healthy Start Needs Support To Continue Helping Moms and Reducing Infant Mortality
(South Dakota) -- An IndieGogo campaign to raise funds for a new home for the Lakota Healthy Start Program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation needs more than $24,000...
1/4/2013
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Oglala Sioux Tribe president recovering from wreck
(South Dakota) -- The newly elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has been moved to a rehabilitation unit at a Rapid City hospital following a one-vehicle accident...
12/31/2012
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Oglala Sioux Tribe president injured in car accident
(South Dakota) -- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe broke his hip Sunday in a traffic accident, according to a tribal official.
12/30/2012
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Oglala Sioux Tribe president injured in car accident
(South Dakota) -- Brian Brewer, the recently elected Oglala Sioux Tribe president, was involved in a one-vehicle accident Saturday evening near Red Shirt Table on Pine...
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Oglala Sioux Tribe President Injured In Car Wreck
(South Dakota) -- The newly elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has been injured in a one-vehicle wreck on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South...
12/27/2012
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Construction moves ahead on $31 million justice center on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- For more than a year, employees of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety have been working in cramped conditions, with some even...
12/26/2012
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Report: Pine Ridge jail most overcrowded in nation
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribal Offenders Facility in Pine Ridge operated at 432 percent of its rated capacity in June 2011, making it the most overcrowded...
12/23/2012
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Teen Hope, Not Suicide, Subject of Lakota Voices Exhibition
(South Dakota) -- Teen suicide has been a major topic of concern for many reservations, but in Rapid City, South Dakota, an exhibition of photographs, taken by...
12/22/2012
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Community Building and Cappuccino: A Creative Café Opens on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- They fell in love while snowed in six years ago in the Black Hills and discovered they shared deeply held beliefs about caring for the natural world...
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Lakota Moms and Babies Need Help: Support Lower Infant Mortality Through Healthy Start Program
(South Dakota) -- The Lakota Healthy Start Program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota dramatically lowers the infant mortality rate (IMR) by providing...
12/19/2012
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Mitakupi Foundation Working With Others to Battle Youth Suicide on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- It was an exciting year for Jennifer Jessum and Simon Joseph, the creative minds behind the award-winning documentary film “Holy Man.”
12/18/2012
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Native Sun News: Uranium mine near Pine Ridge not a done deal
(South Dakota) -- An Oglala Sioux Tribe natural resources technician guaranteed listeners at a recent Fall River County Commission hearing that the protection of...
12/14/2012
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Study examines programming at Pine Ridge school
(South Dakota) -- Representatives from a New York-based consulting firm visited a school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as part of a U.S. Department of Education...
12/12/2012
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Contractors donate new shoes to students in Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- A big smile spread across 9-year-old Cante Long Soldier’s face Tuesday afternoon as she held the brand-new pair of white and purple Nike tennis...
12/9/2012
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Brewer sworn in ahead of Dec. 7 inauguration
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe is making final preparations for its presidential inauguration ceremony, which will take place on Friday, Dec. 7, at the Pine...
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Growing Up Indian: Hope on the reservation
(South Dakota) -- Two years ago, they symbolized the hope, the tragedy and the struggle of growing up Indian on South Dakota’s reservations.
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Obama honors Native progress on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- Nick Tilsen is working to bring affordable housing to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and somebody has taken notice — the president of the United...
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Gardens Flourish on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- John Yellow Hawk’s garden is one of many new feeders of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation’s developing economy. This past year, Yellow Hawk and...
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A Star Is Born: Pine Ridge Gets Its First Movie Theater
(South Dakota) -- Owning and running a sleek new twin theater is a dream come true for movie-lovers Angel Reddest and her mother, Monna Patton, both Oglala Lakota.
12/6/2012
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux Tribe election lawsuit dismissed
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Tribe Chief Judge Pat Lee dismissed a suit filed by the OST Law and Order Committee and outgoing tribal council member James “Toby...
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New jail on SD reservation to open in January
(South Dakota) -- A new $25 million jail will open on the Rosebud Indian Reservation next month that provides for the cultural and spiritual wellness of tribal members...
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Christmas Relief Needed For Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
(South Dakota) -- "Hurricane Broken Treaty", a man made calamity, began when the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty that was made between the "Great Sioux Nation...
12/5/2012
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South Dakota man sentenced to prison in baseball bat killing
(South Dakota) -- A Pine Ridge man accused of using a baseball bat to beat another man to death after the two had argued has been sentenced to more than five years in...
11/30/2012
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Lakota Federal Credit Union up and running
(South Dakota) -- The Lakota Federal Credit Union in Kyle officially opened its doors Wednesday. Within 24 hours staff had signed up 26 new members and made their first...
11/29/2012
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OST President-elect Brewer to appear on Focus
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Tribe President-Elect Bryan Brewer will be sworn into his new post on Tuesday, with his formal inauguration coming a week from Friday....
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First Credit Union opens on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
(South Dakota) -- The first credit union on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota has opened its doors for business. The Lakota Federal Credit Union opened...
11/28/2012
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Lifting Alcohol Ban
(South Dakota) -- The newly elected President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe Brian Brewer says he does not support legalizing alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
11/26/2012
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Brewer Ready For Challenge Of Tribal President
(Nebraska) -- Long recognized for his ability to organize and make things happen, Bryan Brewer is about to take on the biggest job of his life. He will become the...
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New OST president wants change
(South Dakota) -- The newly elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe says he's ready to hit the ground running once he's sworn into office next month.
11/21/2012
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Native Sun News: New Oglala leader announces language plan
(South Dakota) -- Just weeks before he officially takes office, Oglala Sioux Tribe President-elect Bryan Brewer has already made an unprecedented move. Brewer on...
11/19/2012
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Deadly Pine Ridge Reservation road gets makeover
(South Dakota) -- Roadside memorials that stand in silent testimony to six miles of a dangerous road on the Pine Ridge Reservation spoke loudly to the Oglala Sioux Tribe...
11/16/2012
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Oglala Sioux Chairman Discusses Sale of Alcohol on Reservation
(South Dakota) -- As Indian Country Today Media Network reported in mid-October, the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s (OST) Law and Order Committee has proposed legalizing the...
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Proponent expects Oglala Sioux Tribe to allow sale of alcohol
(South Dakota) -- The council of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will vote November 27 on a proposal to legalize alcohol on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
11/15/2012
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Brewer official winner of OST presidency
(South Dakota) -- Challenger Bryan Brewer was officially declared president-elect of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on Wednesday.
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Native Sun News: Oglala man focuses on reservation teachers
(South Dakota) -- Reservation schools across the country score lower on standardized tests, have lower graduation rates than off-reservation schools and often struggle...
11/7/2012
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Native Sun News: Bryan Brewer wins Oglala Sioux Tribe election
(South Dakota) -- In a somewhat surprising turn of events, novice politician Bryan Brewer defeated John Yellow Bird Steele in the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s biennial...
11/6/2012
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Kyle man admits to selling alcohol on the reservation
(South Dakota) -- A Kyle man has confessed in federal court to illegally selling alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
11/4/2012
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1st movie theater opens on Pine Ridge reservation
(South Dakota) -- Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe will finally be able to see the latest Hollywood blockbuster without leaving the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
11/2/2012
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Kevin Killer of Pine Ridge Seeks Third Term in South Dakota Legislature
(South Dakota) -- In today’s American political climate, partisan issues are unfortunately becoming the norm in both federal and state elections. Yet South Dakota...
10/26/2012
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Native Sun News: Pine Ridge man seeks 3rd term in S.D. House
(South Dakota) -- Kevin Killer, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a resident of Pine Ridge, is hoping to successfully defend his seat in the South Dakota...
10/23/2012
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Native Sun News: Lakota Voice Project confronts youth suicide
(South Dakota) -- Where do you find hope in a place where people do such a great job of hiding it? For Jason Alley and Karrissa Eifert of the Lakota Voice Project and a...
10/19/2012
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Lifting Of The Pine Ridge Alcohol Ban Is Proposed
(South Dakota) -- The sale of alcohol has been illegal on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for more than 30 years, but some tribal leaders say it's time to life the...
10/18/2012
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Native Sun News: Official results for Oglala Sioux Tribe primary
(South Dakota) -- The official results of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s primary election, which was held Tuesday, Oct. 9, were recently posted on the tribe’s...
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Oglala Sioux Tribe to choose leader on Nov. 6
(South Dakota) -- Residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation will choose a leader in the Nov. 6 general election.
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Honor the Lakota NYC Marathon Runners and Help Brighten the Future of Lakota Youth on Pine Ridge
(New York) -- Five young Lakota runners are taking on the NYC Marathon November 4 in an effort to raise awareness and funds for the proposed Allen Youth Center on the...
10/17/2012
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Tribal election results confirmed: Steele to face Brewer for tribe president
(South Dakota) -- Official results from the Oglala Sioux Tribe's primary elections released last week confirm that incumbent John Yellow Bird Steele will run against...
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Pine Ridge man sentenced for bringing alcohol onto reservation
(South Dakota) -- A South Dakota man has been sentenced to three months in prison for possessing alcohol on the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
10/16/2012
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Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux Tribe starts veterans cemetery
(South Dakota) -- On Thursday, Oct. 4, the Oglala Sioux Tribe in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs broke ground on a new tribal veterans cemetery.
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The Sioux-Premes: Pine Ridge Start-Up Business Shoots for the Stars
(South Dakota) -- “This is as big as the moon landing,” said millworker John Romero, speaking of Sioux-Preme Wood Products, in Manderson, South Dakota....
10/15/2012
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Pine Ridge casket company brings jobs, hope
(South Dakota) -- Roby Cottier always wanted to own a woodworking business, but kick-starting any venture on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is like walking up the...
10/11/2012
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Oglala Sioux Tribe Primary Election Results
(South Dakota) -- On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Oglala Sioux Tribe held its biennial primary election. The top two vote-getters for the offices of president and vice president...
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Yellow Bird Steele, Brewer to face off for tribal presidency
(South Dakota) -- Incumbent John Yellow Bird Steele will face Bryan Brewer in the Nov. 6 election for president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, according to unofficial...
10/10/2012
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Native Sun News: Salway seeks return to Oglala Sioux politics
(South Dakota) -- A former two-time president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has made the decision to return to politics on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
10/9/2012
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Reporting From The Rez
(South Dakota) -- For years, the lives and struggles of people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have generated international interest. Now, thanks to social media,...
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Pine Ridge Officials Propose Legalizing Alcohol
(South Dakota) -- Last week, a federal judge dismissed the Oglala Sioux Tribe's lawsuit against alcohol distributors. The case has since been opened in Nebraska.
10/5/2012
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Tribe Considers Lifting Alcohol Ban in South Dakota
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe will propose lifting an alcohol ban on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota as a way to regulate the flow of beer...
10/3/2012
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SD reservation sees barrage of media attention
(South Dakota) -- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota has for years attracted journalists and activists eager to tell the stories and share...
10/1/2012
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BLOG: Secession! Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves The Union! (Again)
(South Dakota) -- President Barack Obama has an unexpected foreign policy problem – in the Western United States. The Lakota Sioux nation has seceded from the...
9/27/2012
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Big Crow shooting for 12th term on OST Council
(South Dakota) -- A lifelong resident of the Pine Ridge Reservation is seeking a 12th term on the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council. Gerald “Jump” Big Crow, who...
9/26/2012
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Congressional Staffers Tour Pine Ridge Housing
(South Dakota) -- Professional staff members for the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committees have spent the past few days on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation...
9/25/2012
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Law and Order Committee meets with Oglala Sioux Tribe representatives
(Arizona) -- The 22nd Navajo Nation Council's Law and Order Committee (LOC) met with two members of the Oglala Sioux's Law and Order Committee on Sept. 18 to...
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Oglala Lakota Elders Protest Theft of Funds
(South Dakota) -- On Aug. 31, approximately 22 Oglala Lakota elders occupied the Oglala District Community Action Program (CAP) office in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to...
9/12/2012
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First FEMA trailer arrives on reservation
(South Dakota) -- A furnished, three-bedroom mobile home provide by the Federal Emergency Management Administration arrived Tuesday on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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One FEMA Trailer Home Arrives on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
(South Dakota) -- It took almost two months. Regardless, the first FEMA trailer arrived Tuesday for one of the families that lost their home from the straight-line wind...
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Native Sun News: Educator throws hat into ring at Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- A longtime Pine Ridge educator has decided the time has come to bring new, honest and educated leadership to the government of the Pine Ridge Indian...
9/10/2012
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Tribe Says Interior Department Withholding Crime Data
(Washington D.C.) -- Oglala Sioux tribal officials are alleging that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the U.S. Department of the Interior has withheld from the...
9/6/2012
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A Year Later Oglala Sioux Tribe Still Waits for BIA
(South Dakota) -- The failure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to produce and provide the unmet needs assessment, as promised, has had a direct...
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Oglala Sioux Tribe says BIA report is delayed
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota says they are upset that the Bureau of Indian Affairs has failed to assess the tribe's unmet needs of the...
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Native Sun News: Elders from Oglala Sioux Tribe continue protest
(South Dakota) -- Elders of Oglala District on the Pine Ridge Reservation extended a weeklong sit-in at district staff headquarters begun Aug. 28 into the week of Sept....
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West Chester resident contributes to National Geographic project
(Pennsylvania) -- One night in July on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Sarah Alderman of West Chester was sitting in Norbert and Shirley Bell’s home...
9/5/2012
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Native Sun News: Fast moving fire enters Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- A fast-moving wildfire has jumped Nebraska’s state line into the Pine Ridge Reservation, searing almost 30,000 acres more as it winds its way...
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Nebraska’s Wellnitz Fire on Pine Ridge Reservation Nearly Contained, Authorities Say
(South Dakota) -- Charred remains were what was left of a chunk of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Tuesday September 4 after a Nebraska wildfire bled over the state...
9/3/2012
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Preparation Pays Off In Fire Fight On Reservation
(South Dakota) -- Over the weekend, a prairie fire that started in northwestern Nebraska moved onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Wellnitz Fire has burned more...
9/2/2012
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Wildfires Overrun Nebraska Border Onto Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- Wildfires crossed over Nebraska’s northwestern border onto the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation over the weekend, forcing evacuation from several...
9/1/2012
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Fire Fighters Gain Control of Fires on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The wild prairie fires that hit the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been contained. There are still a couple fires burning South of Highway 18...
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Oglala Sioux President "Beaver Walls" Fire Burns on to Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- The President's Office of the Oglala Sioux Tribe this afternoon released a Public Service Announcement relating to a wildfire burning in...
8/31/2012
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Native American Credit Union Receives Charter Approval
(South Dakota) -- For the second time this week, the National Credit Union Administration's (NCUA) Office of Consumer Protection has approved the charter of a de...
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Pine Ridge Gets New Credit Union on Reservation With ‘No Other Access to Federally Insured Financial Services’
(South Dakota) -- Lakota Federal Credit Union, approved yesterday by the National Credit Union Administration, will hit the ground running with an office opening its...
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Fast-moving fire threatens Pine Ridge communities
(South Dakota) -- A fast-moving fire on the Pine Ridge reservation Friday afternoon wiped out at least two structures and forced evacuations of several reservation...
8/30/2012
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Pine Ridge to get first credit union
(South Dakota) -- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is getting its first credit union. The National Credit Union Administration has announced that it has...
8/28/2012
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USDA, Oglala Sioux Tribe dedicate new building
(South Dakota) -- Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Oglala Sioux Tribe have dedicated a new building on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to help...
8/22/2012
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Wounded Knee: Still Wounded After All These Years
(South Dakota) -- When American poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee in 1931, his poem made no mention of the massacre of Lakota Indians that...
8/18/2012
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Case Reopened On Pine Ridge Reservation Deaths
(South Dakota) -- A deadly occupation at Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973 left a legacy of violence. Now a U.S. attorney is re-examining 45 related deaths that tribal...
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Case Reopens On Dozens Of Pine Ridge Res. Deaths
(South Dakota) -- In the late 1960s, Native Americans fed up with what they called years of mistreatment by the federal government formed an organization known as the...
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Near Wounded Knee, Years Of Alleged Injustice
(South Dakota) -- In South Dakota, the U.S. attorney is re-examining a number of unsolved deaths that occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation that some say stemmed from...
8/13/2012
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Illinois MBA group returning to Pine Ridge reservation
(South Dakota) -- A dozen graduate students from Illinois are headed to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation this week to fix roofs, repair trailer skirts...
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NPR: Slideshow: The Light And Dark On Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- In 2005, photographer Aaron Huey set out to do a project on poverty in America. "I literally found Pine Ridge because it was just another poverty...
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Shannon County school gets addition
(South Dakota) -- When students at Rockyford Community School return to classes this month, they will do so in a school more than double its original size.
8/10/2012
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Problems of liberty and justice on the Plains
(South Dakota) -- Whoever wins the 2012 U.S. presidential election faces multiple, serious problems in the U.S. prison system. One issue is the soaring prison population...
8/8/2012
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New scrutiny for Indian homicides
(South Dakota) -- The top federal prosecutor in South Dakota, stepping into the middle of a bitter dispute between the Oglala Lakota Nation and the FBI, has reopened a...
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Top Federal Prosecutor in South Dakota Takes Over Review of 56 Tribal Reservation Homicides From FBI
(South Dakota) -- Stepping into the middle of a long-simmering tension between the Oglala Lakota Nation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that has ignited strong...
8/3/2012
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Annual Oglala Lakota Nation Powwow starts today
(South Dakota) -- It's a weekend full of events on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The 27th annual Oglala Lakota Nation Powwow and Rodeo in Pine Ridge continues...
8/2/2012
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Native Sun News: Two Bulls is running for Oglala Sioux president
(South Dakota) -- One of the most recognized Native American tribes in the United States – the Oglala Sioux Tribe – has only had two female leaders in its...
7/28/2012
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Pine Ridge Reservation Photos Show Storm Devastation
(South Dakota) -- In a report prepared by the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Home Improvement Program, it was disclosed 14 other homes sustained heavy damage.
7/25/2012
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Native Sun News: High winds rip through Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- On Saturday, July 21, several homes near Oglala on the Pine Ridge Reservation were damaged and destroyed during a severe thunderstorm that brought with...
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Tribe says storm damages nearly 20 homes
(South Dakota) -- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has declared a state of emergency after several homes were damaged or destroyed during a weekend storm.
7/24/2012
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National Geographic launches a ‘ballsy’ online project
(South Dakota) -- When Aaron Huey started photographing the lives of Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, he did not imagine he would...
7/23/2012
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Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project
(South Dakota) -- This collection tells the story of life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, told by the people of Pine Ridge in their own unedited words. Click on an...
7/22/2012
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Strong winds cause damage, injuries on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- Strong winds that tore through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Saturday night damaged several homes in the Oglala community and sent residents to a...
7/20/2012
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Tribe proclaims drought emergencies
(South Dakota) -- Vanessa Red Cloud uses wet towels and a single fan to keep her 94-year-old grandfather, Chief Oliver Red Cloud, cool in the 100-plus degree...
7/19/2012
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Oglala Sioux Tribe Declares Drought Emergency
(South Dakota) -- The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has declared a drought emergency for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota.
7/17/2012
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Awareness walk planned on Pine Ridge reservation
(South Dakota) -- A sexual assault and domestic violence awareness walk is planned for July 25 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
7/8/2012
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Pine Ridge has small-town charm
(South Dakota) -- When the summer weather gets steamy, the Higher Ground cafe in Pine Ridge is a great place to cool off.
7/7/2012
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Pine Ridge IHS concludes hantavirus response
(South Dakota) -- With no new cases of hantavirus appearing, the Pine Ridge Indian Health Service Hospital has concluded its public health response to the May 30 death...
6/29/2012
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Michigan man donates money for tribal foster home
(South Dakota) -- A Michigan man has pledged to donate as much money as it takes to build a 40-bed children's home on the Pine Ridge reservation.
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Pine Ridge reservation close to getting first credit union at Kyle
(South Dakota) -- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation may soon have its first credit union. Debbie Matz with the National Credit Union Administration said the association...
6/28/2012
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Credit union official supports Kyle charter
(South Dakota) -- The National Credit Union Administration is “very close” to approving a charter for a credit union that would serve the Pine Ridge Indian...
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NCUA Eyes New CU to Serve the Sioux Indian Tribe
(South Dakota) -- NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz told credit union executives here yesterday the agency is very close to approving a charter for a credit union that will...
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SD reservation close to getting first credit union
(South Dakota) -- The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation may soon have its first credit union. Debbie Matz with the National Credit Union Administration said the association...
6/26/2012
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Economic Development Revs Up on Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- Supporting them is an expanding infrastructure, with public transit throughout the 2 million-plus-acre reservation, good cell-phone coverage in most...
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Oglala Sioux Transit Keeps Pine Ridge Moving
(South Dakota) -- “Our 10 buses, each holding 16 to 22 riders, start as early as 4:30 in the morning, heading for 35 stops around the reservation,” said Emma...
6/22/2012
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Pine Ridge’s Heritage Center Ready to Go Global
(South Dakota) -- The Heritage Center of Red Cloud Indian School, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, is already one of the country’s most important exhibitors...
6/21/2012
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Hope is theme of Pine Ridge reservation campaign
(South Dakota) -- A campaign on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to raise awareness about the high rate of suicide among the reservation's youth is reminding them...
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KENT: Accounting for Pine Ridge killings
(South Dakota) -- Perhaps the most common phrase in the FBI’s May 2000 publication “Accounting for Native American Deaths -- Pine Ridge Reservation -- South...
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Pine Ridge satellite center lonesome during forced early voting
(South Dakota) -- As lonesome polling places go, it would be difficult to top the satellite voting center on the Pine Ridge reservation during the six weeks leading up...
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One-week clinic brings veterinarian expertise to Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- Black wire kennels filled the area under one basketball hoop, surgical tables lined up beneath the other, and center court became a patient recovery...
6/20/2012
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Native Sun News: US Attorney talks unsolved cases at Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- As part of an ongoing effort to re-examine numerous deaths on and near the Pine Ridge Reservation, most during the 1970s, U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson...
6/19/2012
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New Inquiry of Deaths on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1970s
(South Dakota) -- The United States attorney for South Dakota said Tuesday that prosecutors would re-examine the circumstances surrounding dozens of deaths that occurred...
6/15/2012
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Oglala Indians want justice
(South Dakota) -- Representatives of the Oglala Sioux tribe in the United States are seeking the reopening of criminal proceedings into dozens of killings that took...
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Tribe Seeks Reopening of Inquiries in ’70s Deaths
(South Dakota) -- Forty years after the siege at Wounded Knee by members of the American Indian Movement, the Oglala Sioux tribe has demanded that the federal government...
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Oglala Lakota College concludes weeklong bow camp
(South Dakota) -- More than 30 people are participating in a weeklong archery camp on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to learn about the historical significance of the...
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Pine Ridge Loses Suicide Prevention Program
(South Dakota) -- It's a problem everywhere, but on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, people are committing suicide at more than twice the national rate.
6/13/2012
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US Attorney meets with Oglala Sioux about deaths
(South Dakota) -- Three attorneys from the U.S. Attorney's Office in South Dakota have been assigned to review the case files of nearly 40 deaths dating back to the...
6/11/2012
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US Attorney meeting with Oglala Sioux about deaths
(South Dakota) -- U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson is scheduled to meet Wednesday with members of the Oglala Sioux tribal council and family members of tribal members whose...
6/7/2012
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SD tribal VP says arrest had upside
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear believes that, in some ways, his alcohol-related arrest earlier this year on the dry Pine Ridge Indian...
6/6/2012
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SIDE STREETS: Neighborhoods with outhouses common in poverty-stricken pockets of U.S.
(South Dakota) -- I was shocked last week to learn there are neighborhoods that routinely rely on outhouses because their homes have no running water and lack...
6/5/2012
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2nd hantavirus case confirmed on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux tribal officials say a second case of hantavirus has been confirmed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The news comes days after lab...
6/4/2012
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Justice Dept. to monitor Pine Ridge vote Tuesday
(South Dakota) -- The Justice Department says it will be monitoring South Dakota's Tuesday primary election vote in Shannon County, on the Pine Ridge Indian...
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COMMENTARY: Cold Case Pine Ridge Murders Review: A Step Toward Justice
(South Dakota) -- The persistence of the Oglala Sioux Tribe has paid off. Tribal leaders on the Oglala Sioux Tribe have persuaded US Attorney Brendan V. Johnson of the...
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Rodent virus kills girl on Pine Ridge reservation
(South Dakota) -- A wake was held Monday for the first person on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to die from hantavirus, while Ogala Sioux officials met to discuss...
5/28/2012
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Pine Ridge residents say drug indictments won't slow trade
(South Dakota) -- Some residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation say they don't believe the indictment of 17 people for drug-dealing will slow down the local...
5/25/2012
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People In Pine Ridge React To Drug Indictments
(South Dakota) -- Seventeen people are facing federal charges for distributing marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine on and around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Pine Ridge residents react to drug indictments
(South Dakota) -- Some residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation say they don't believe the indictment of 17 people for drug-dealing will slow down the local...
5/24/2012
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Feds to re-examine list of 40 deaths on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in S.D.
(South Dakota) -- The U.S. Attorney's Office in South Dakota will re-examine a list of nearly 40 deaths that Oglala Sioux tribal officials say were insufficiently...
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Oglala Sioux Tribe asks feds to reopen 39 cases
(South Dakota) -- Oglala Sioux tribal officials are presenting a list of nearly 40 deaths they want the federal government to reopen.
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US Attorney Will Look Into Tribal Deaths
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe wants the federal government to reopen dozens of death investigations over a 40 year period. The names go as far back as Wounded...
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‘Call Me,’ Says U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson to Oglala Demand for New Murder Investigations
(South Dakota) -- Cases of unexplained deaths occurring on or near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation since the 1970s should be re-opened and reinvestigated, the Oglala...
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People In Pine Ridge React To Drug Indictments
(South Dakota) -- Seventeen people are facing federal charges for distributing marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine on and around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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Three still wanted in reservation drug case
(South Dakota) -- Authorities are still looking for three of the 17 people recently indicted for selling drugs on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
5/22/2012
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Lakota culture focus of tourism diversity training
(South Dakota) -- As summer tourism season kicks off in South Dakota this weekend, staff from several of the state's most popular attractions are learning about...
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17 People Indicted for Drug Offenses on Pine Ridge
(South Dakota) -- U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says a federal grand jury has indicted 17 people for distributing drugs in and around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
5/21/2012
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Pine Ridge grocery store reopens Saturday after selling outdated meat
(South Dakota) -- After being closed for a week following allegations of outdated meat and fears of protests, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation’s sole grocery...
5/18/2012
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Oglala Sioux tribe in SD trying restorative justice technique called sentencing circles
(South Dakota) -- A South Dakota tribe has been testing a form of restorative justice called sentencing circles in hopes it will make community members more accountable...
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Pine Ridge grocery store remains closed
(South Dakota) -- The store director for the still-closed Sioux Nation Shopping Center said Thursday that store employees and Pine Ridge residents are eager to have the...
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Pine Ridge store under closure order
(South Dakota) -- Residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation might have to wait until next week before their sole grocery store is back in business because the tribe...
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Store could stay closed for weekend
(South Dakota) -- The Associated Press has learned that the Oglala Sioux tribe's president has filed a second injunction prohibiting the reopening of the Pine Ridge...
5/16/2012
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Oglala Sioux tribe looks to extend bus program
(South Dakota) -- For the people living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, traveling to Rapid City may soon be as simple as hopping on a bus.
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Pine Ridge grocery store waits to reopen after closure lifted
(South Dakota) -- An attorney for Sioux Nation Shopping Center said the Pine Ridge grocery store might reopen as early as Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe dismissed...
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SD reservation grocery store might reopen Thursday
(South Dakota) -- An attorney for the sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota says it might reopen Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe...
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Sioux Nation Superstore Claims Spoiled-Meat Problems Fixed
(South Dakota) -- Richard Whitmarsh, director of Sioux Nation Superstore, in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, has responded publicly to charges of spoiled-meat sales that...
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South Dakota Reservation Grocery Store Remains Closed
(South Dakota) -- The sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remained closed Wednesday despite the attorney general of the Oglala Sioux saying a...
5/15/2012
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Lone grocery store on South Dakota American Indian Reservation remains closed
(South Dakota) -- The sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remained closed for the fourth consecutive day, forcing residents to either shop at...
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Only Pine Ridge Reservation Grocery Store Remains Closed
(South Dakota) -- The only grocery store on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation remains shut down Tuesday because of food safety concerns.
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Pine Ridge Grocery Store Closes After Health Violations
(South Dakota) -- The only grocery store in Pine Ridge remained closed Tuesday night after nearly a dozen major health violations involving raw meat. "They'd...
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