A ritual dance would reunite his people with their dead. The Ghost Dance swept across other North American tribes, until fear and violence brought it to a tragic end.

Perry Ray Robinson, a Black activist from Alabama, is believed to be buried near the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation where he participated in the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation ...

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (KELO) — 135 years ago around 300 Native Americans were massacred at Wounded Knee. This year marks the first time the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial is listed as a protected sacred ...

WOUNDED KNEE — During an event memorializing the 135th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, tribal leaders mentioned a recent victory — the passage of a bill that will keep the site on Pine Ridge ...

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This month marks the 135th anniversary of an iconic event in American history: the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Sometimes called the end of the “Indian ...

L. Frank Baum, author of “The Wizard of Oz,” is in the news again thanks to the blockbuster reworking of the film adaptation at the Sphere. As editor of the Aberdeen (S.D.) Saturday Pioneer newspaper, ...

The U.S. Senate sent President Donald Trump a bill Thursday, Dec. 11 that would protect a portion of the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation. U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic flowers and American flags are placed atop graves at the Wounded Knee Memorial and cemetery June 30, 2024, on the Pine ...

Plastic flowers and American flags are placed atop graves at the Wounded Knee Memorial and cemetery June 30, 2024, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds stopped by the KELOLAND News studio for a live interview Friday afternoon. Parkston man, USD student convicted on rape charge Rounds spoke ...

Chase Iron Eyes says his family’s lineage was nearly wiped out at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890, the day of the massacre. He lost his great-great-grandfather Iron Eyes, who was killed alongside ...