FORT YATES — The Standing Rock Sioux Nation, where thousands of people flocked in 2016 to protest the installment of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, was once part of what was known as the Great ...

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 created the Great Sioux Reservation, shown in gray, and included unceded lands, shown in yellow, in parts of Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska territories that were ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.--Another great Indian reservation, marked upon the Land Office map by a green spot, surpassed in size only by the reservations of the Indian Territory, is to be thrown open to ...

Treaty reservations. Members of all seven tribes of the Great Sioux Nation came together for the first time since the protest at Standing Rock to highlight the 150th anniversary of the Fort ...

The U.S. government in 1868 officially designated all the land west of the Missouri River as the Great Sioux Reservation. But the discovery of gold in the Black Hills led to a new treaty in 1877 ...

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, which is part of the Great Sioux Nation, requested that the judge immediately issue a temporary restraining order to stop construction, with a hearing to be held at ...

The Lakota consider the Black Hills, or Paha Sapa in Lakota, to be the spiritual center of the Great Sioux Reservation where their culture began, and it was home to seven Lakota tribes.

The chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is calling for the removal of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, arguing that it is carved in an area that is considered sacred land to Natives.

The Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where the great chief lived his last years, straddles the Dakotas, and for the first half of the 20th century, his remains lay at Ft. Yates, N.D.

FORT YATES, N.D. — The Standing Rock Sioux were struggling to adjust to newly constrained lives as farmers when word came that a large herd of buffalo had wandered onto the Great Sioux Reservation.

The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was once part of the Great Sioux Reservation, which was established under the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Signed in 1868, ...