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Standing Rock in its latest suit argues that keeping the pipeline open without an easement is a violation of federal law. The tribe also alleges the Army Corps is at fault for a number of other ...
FORT YATES, N.D. – Leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe asked governors of North Dakota and South Dakota for help Monday as they face uncertainties with federal funding under President ...
Jim Gray says the Trump administration will confront an American Indian movement galvanized and united by Standing Rock. “In the old days, our people didn’t have much of a voice,” he told a ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Mary Sully: Native Modern (until 12 January 2025) features a recently rediscovered trove of works by the self-taught Yankton Dakota artist. In her ...
About the sculptor Charles Rencountre said he created the original statue in 2016 on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. “I was inspired by the sculpture on a small pipe,” he said.
MANDAN, N.D. — The nearly yearlong Dakota Access Pipeline protests that ended in early 2017 created tension at the border between the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and ranchers in the ...
Susan Kelly Power, whose Indian name meant "Storm Clouds Gathering," arrived in Chicago when she was only 15 years old from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 1942. She was sent to the ...
Credit: Elder Susan Kelly Powers, Standing Rock Sioux, attends the American Indian Center of Chicago pow wow in about 2015. Power was one of the founders of the center, which opened in 1953 as the ...
Retropolis Native Americans fight for items looted from bodies at Wounded Knee Getting them returned from an obscure museum outside Boston hasn’t been easy for the descendants of those slain ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims she experienced an “awakening” and got in touch with her indigenous ancestry in 2016 at Standing Rock.
Phyllis Young, a Standing Rock organizer for the Lakota People’s Law Project, however, believes that preventing non-Natives from teaching would contradict traditional tribal law, which calls for ...