FORT YATES, N.D. – Leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe asked governors of North Dakota and South Dakota for help Monday ...

The federal agency has withdrawn from an agreement meant to reduce discipline disparities for Native American students in the ...

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

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

The rollback of the South Dakota case reflects the department ... a former superintendent said high truancy rates owed to some Native American tribes not valuing education, and that they operate ...

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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.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A 24-year-old airman has been charged with killing a Native American woman who went missing in South Dakota about seven months ago. Quinterius Chappelle, 24, made his ...