(Reuters) - Oglala Sioux Tribe members have voted to end a widely ignored prohibition on alcohol at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, one of the poorest areas in the United States.

The latest suit was filed last week and again cites the United States' failure to honor its treaty and trust responsibilities ...

For the third time since 2022, the Oglala Sioux Tribe has sued the federal government over inadequate funding for its reservation’s public safety operations. The case filed last week in U.S. District ...

FILE - A sign hands outside the entrance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Sioux tribe, Sept. 9, 2012. A tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the ...

Buying groceries can take Doug Pourier the better part of a day. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Pourier lives on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwest South Dakota, where he says local ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an unusual speech last month to top brass — ordering nearly 800 admirals and generals to ...

Kiya's experience highlights the challenges faced by youth on the reservation and the importance of providing safe and ...

PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. -- The top federal prosecutor in South Dakota, stepping into the middle of a bitter dispute between the Oglala Lakota Nation and the FBI, has reopened a series of ...

Ten thousand Christmas gifts, including 8,700 Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes, will be distributed today through Tuesday, Dec. 19, in what organizers are calling the largest holiday gift ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The only suicide prevention outreach program on a South Dakota Indian reservation where at least 15 young people have killed themselves this year will end in December due to ...

For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Last week, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said the Republican governor was no longer ...