On March 27, the Rapid City Area Schools district in South Dakota received a letter from the Trump administration’s Office of Civil Rights. Having concluded a 14-year investigation into school-based ...

Governor Larry Rhoden visited the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on his Open for Opportunity Tour. He was joined on the visit by ...

Revised textbooks on the Mandan, Hidatsa, & Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes), the Spirit Lake Nation, the Standing ...

The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at ...

The U.S. Department of Education has canceled a civil rights agreement with the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district ...

The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading comprehension.

Leaders of all nine Native American reservations in South Dakota voted ... s appointment to the Interior presents “unique opportunities” to the tribe, North Dakota and South Dakota, and he hopes the ...

The Trump administration just scrapped an agreement aimed at addressing disparities involving Native students in South Dakota.

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota sent a team of volunteers ... Amelia Schafer is the Indigenous Affairs reporter for the Rapid City Journal. She is of Wampanoag and Montauk ...

A South Dakota airman accused of killing a Native American woman at Ellsworth Air Force Base has now been charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.