The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at ...

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

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

where Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribes are spread out among nine reservations. Currently, teaching Native American history is optional in South Dakota, with educators reporting that more than half ...

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

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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.

The Education Department has backed out of an agreement to address disciplinary imbalances affecting Native American students in a South Dakota school district, stating that the initiative was imprope ...

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 ...