Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SOUTH DAKOTA (CNN) — Antoinette Poafpybitty wanted to come home. When Poafpybitty and her husband, Virgil, decided to return to Pine Ridge after 15 years living off the reservation, they were not just choosing a life on the reservation over life on what some refer to as “the outside.”

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has set up a way for those who want to conduct missionary work on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. On Tuesday, the council announced they passed an ordinance requiring all churches and missionaries to fill out a ...

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff. He is likely buried on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Perry Ray Robinson Jr. was ...

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 lack of funding, a tribal spokesman said Friday.

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. An organization that 15 years ago helped to open the first federally insured bank on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ...

We're going to turn to South Dakota now. That's where the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has been in a state of emergency for almost two weeks now. This is because of fallout from blizzards, snowmelt and high water. The floodwaters are receding, but still ...

Whiteclay, Nebraska, has become notorious for its alcohol sales to residents of the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. LINCOLN — The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation will remain officially dry after a vote to allow alcohol sales was called off at the ...