Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

Think of it as a tawny ocean stopped in time, a vast landscape of grass, here and there mustache-like strips of trees darkening creek beds or running along the ridges like an old headdress unfurled in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase 40 acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, the site of one of the deadliest ...

The Wounded Knee Massacre, the murder of Lakota refugees by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890, was inevitable. This atrocity was the culmination of the centuries-long effort by European immigrants to ...

Reprint of the 1896 ed. published by the Govt. Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as pt. 2 of the fourteenth Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KELO) — The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act bill passed the Senate this week. This bill led by U.S. Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and U.S.

Introduction: Photographing the Western Frontier, c. 1865-1890. Stanley J. Morrow: A Photographer's Journey -- Minnesota Uprising, 1862. Bitter Harvest -- Warriors. A Victim in Kansas. Chronicles of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department ...

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Michael Rounds, R-S.D., urged DOD to loosen a deadline for its review of Medals of Honor awarded for the Wounded Knee Massacre. (National Museum of American ...