This week, officials from the Crow Creek Sioux Nation and seven other tribes in the state sent an extensive report to Congress accusing South Dakota of systematically violating the 35-year-old ...

And among some tribes, the rates of fetal alcohol syndrome are as high as 1.5 to 2.5 per 1,000 live births, compared to the general population, which is between 0.2 and 1.0.

Three American Indian tribes in South Dakota have sued the country's top opioid manufacturers and distributors, accusing them of concealing and minimizing the addiction risk in tribal communities ...

I hope all the tribes are looking at this and taking it to heart. It could change their future." The Indian Child Welfare Act is in line with similar laws to bolster tribal sovereignty, Abourezk said.

Historians have long known that in the early American South, Indian tribes often conducted slaving raids on other tribes, on behalf of Europeans and sometimes accompanied by them. Alan Gallay is ...

Three Indian parents and two tribes in South Dakota today stood up against these unlawful and disgraceful practices by filing a class-action lawsuit in Rapid City, South Dakota. The ACLU filed the ...

Three Indian parents, the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe filed a class-action lawsuit to challenge the continued removal of Indian children in Pennington County, South Dakota from ...

Ever since the U.S. Department of Justice released a memo in December of 2014 that seemed to open the door for the 566 federally recognized American Indian tribes to begin growing and selling ...

PIERRE — South Dakota's nine tribes are projecting a message of "unity" going into the 2025 state legislative session. Part of the change necessary to bridge state and tribal relations will come ...