The Indian Health Service yesterday transitioned its acting director for the Great Plains Area, Joe Amoitte (Oglala Sioux), to a permanent director. Amiotte has served as the acting director for the ...

Leaders of 11 northern Great Plains Indian tribes have voted to reaffirm their support of the NCAA's policy calling for elimination of American Indian nicknames, logos and mascots at member colleges ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It was 2022 when pediatrician Tom Herr realized just how many ...

KEARNEY — Nancy Gillis, the former executive director of the John Neihardt State Historic Site in Bancroft, will examine why and how the Homestead Act of 1862 changed the lives and altered the future ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the disappearance of the Indians of the North American Plains. Citizens and officials in both the United States and Canada agreed, of course, that the natives were ...

And that art gave a sudden flash of insight into what the Indian wars of the Great Plains felt like to those who fought them facing east, not west. For Klish, it was comparable to what she has ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts.

Florida has just joined Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia in passing resolutions expressing regret for its role in the "shameful chapter" of Southern slavery. Several other ...