PIERRE — South Dakota's nine tribes are projecting a message of "unity" going into the 2025 state legislative session. Part of the change necessary to bridge state and tribal relations will come from ...

Advocates see it as an opportunity for tribes to connect visitors with the lands, medicinal plants and stories of their ...

All nine South Dakota tribes have officially endorsed the banishment of Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s executive council voted Tuesday in favor of banishing the ...

Four of South Dakota’s federally recognized Native American tribes have barred the state’s governor, Kristi Noem – a Republican whose name has been floated as a potential running mate for former ...

Four Native American tribes banned South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) from their land after she had made comments linking tribal leaders to Mexican drug cartels. Earlier this year, three tribes barred ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is the latest tribal government to ban South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from their reservation in response to allegations she's made that some ...

Relations between South Dakota tribes and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem have long been strained, but they have become even more contentious recently as Noem has pointedly criticized tribal leaders, ...

Excerpts from the Great Plains tribes’ request for emergency assistance from the federal government. Credit: Photo illustration by Peter DiCampo/ProPublica. Photograph by Anna Maria Barry-Jester.

After a series of controversial remarks about alleged drug trade on reservations, three more Native American tribes in South Dakota banned Gov. Kristi Noem from setting foot on their reservations, ...