The world had largely forgotten about Native American people by the early 1970s, said Marcella Gilbert. Native populations had been decimated by disease and colonization; their sprawling homeland where ancestors
50 years ago, hundreds of Native Americans and Indigenous activists began 71-day standoff against U.S. government at Wounded Knee on Pine Ridge Reservation.
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A health center dedicated to alcohol rehabilitation is "the best insurance policy we have to keep the beer stores from returning to Whiteclay,” said activist John Maisch, who facilitated the
In the middle of the Badlands National Park lies Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. Tatewin Means, who is with the Oglala Lakota tribe, says they decided to take on the project to create a self-sustaining community.