The Oglala Sioux Tribe is receiving a boost in internet connectivity, thanks to a $35 million federal grant to develop high-speed access. The move will benefit 3,300 people, 47 businesses, 55 farms ...

PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, S.D. (KELO) – The Pine Ridge Reservation has a poverty rate of over 50%, according to the 2020 census, which is higher than the national average of just over 12%. Some of the ...

Join Levi Rickert, editor of Native News Online, as he sits down with Sarah Eagle Heart (Oglála Lakota). The winter season is when Native communities traditionally come together to share stories and ...

A new public high school will be constructed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Gov. Kristi Noem and Oglala Lakota County School District officials announced on Thursday that the school is slated ...

Misty Dawn Lakota (Oglala Lakota) has been a member of the National Guard and a special agent with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services. She currently serves as a Chief Warrant ...

The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a fight for ...

Tayah Running Hawk stands with her father’s family at Canyon Lake Park in Rapid City, S.D., in April 2021. Credit: Arlo Iron Cloud for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

Oglala Lakota Tribe members are voting Tuesday on the legalization of medical and adult-use cannabis and allowing alcohol at the tribe's casino on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, according to ...

, meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people, who along with the Nakota and Dakota, make up the Great Sioux Nation. A majority of the Oglala ...

Charles Trimble, a journalist, activist and member of the Oglala Lakota, will receive the Word Sender Award from the John G. Neihardt Foundation. Neihardt received the title Word Sender from Oglala ...

This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. Almost every historical atrocity has a geographically symbolic core, a place whose name conjures up the trauma of a whole ...

Data is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hospitalization data is a daily average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Oglala Lakota County, an area ...