This National Native American Heritage Month, our editorial board would like to take this opportunity to remember the late ...

PIERRE | A South Dakota "Right of Publicity" bill designed to protect the legacy of the late Native American activist Russell Means needs a Senate vote in the final week of the legislative session if ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dennis Banks (Ojibwe, left) and ...

Means, perhaps best known as a political activist and early leader of the American Indian Movement, could barely talk because of a cancerous tumor pressing against his throat. He and his wife, Pearl, ...

(AP) Russell Means, a former American Indian Movement activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in several Hollywood films, has died. He ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Russell Means never shunned attention. Whether leading Native Americans in railing against broken federal treaties, appearing in a Hollywood blockbuster or advocating a sovereign ...