On December 24, 2008, a delegation of Lakota leaders delivered a message to the State Department announcing that their people were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties signed with the US. No longer ...

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

The timing was coincidental, but Russell Means would have appreciated it: On the day he died, workers began removing the prominent "Home of the Fighting Sioux" signs from Ralph Engelstad Arena in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Russell Means spent a lifetime as a modern American Indian warrior. He railed against broken treaties, fought for the return of stolen land and even took up arms against the ...

(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 ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. -- Authorities arrested American Indian activist Russell Means, 65, on Saturday for failing to appear in federal court a day earlier to deal with some traffic tickets. Means, one of ...

No act of protest was too bold for American Indian activist Russell Means–not even urinating on George Washington’s head at Mount Rushmore. An Oglala Sioux who died at 72 on Oct. 22, Means became ...

Native American activist and actor Russell Means has gone to court over a Black Hills fishing protest. Prosecutors charged Means for fishing without a license after an August protest at Sheridan Lake.

At Wounded Knee To the Editor: In his review of Russell Means's autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread" (Oct. 15), Brent Staples says Wounded Knee showed an "exterminatory impulse" by the ...

Mr. Banks, a Chippewa, led often-violent insurrections to protest the treatment of Native Americans and to call attention to a history of injustices against them. By Robert D. McFadden A young ...