The Sioux were not the original inhabitants of the Black Hills. Their people were originally from the Northern Great Lakes and moved westward. Beginning in the early 18th century, the Sioux engaged in ...

In 1868, the United States government promised the Sioux the Black Hills “forever” in the Fort Laramie Treaty. But the discovery of gold unleashed a flood of miners and settlers, and the U.S ...

Officials in South Dakota are pushing hard to build President Donald Trump's proposed National Garden of American Heroes in ...

In the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, ... In 2023, the Black Hills National Forest undertook an intensive Light Detection and Ranging, or LIDAR, project, ...

The Black Hills have long been a flashpoint in disputes between South Dakota and its Indigenous tribes. The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie formally recognised the Black Hills as belonging to the Sioux ...

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie formally recognised the Black Hills as belonging to the Sioux people. Yet, less than a decade later, the US government seized the land for gold mining.

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie recognized that the Black Hills belong to the Sioux people, but the U.S. government seized the land less than a decade later to mine for gold.