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Dakota tribal members have completed an annual 330-mile ride on horseback to honor 40 of their ancestors killed in 1862

MINNEAPOLIS — Prayers and grit kept a team of Dakota riders going through two snowstorms and long, frigid days on horses this month, through South Dakota and southern Minnesota to reach Mankato on Dec. 26 — to mark the 160th anniversary of the largest mass execution in American history, and…

Critics have accused South Dakota's Kristi Noem of "playing games with vulnerable children"

Dakota storytellers, Teresa Peterson writes, are "loved and respected," seen as keepers of culture, tradition and history. Their stories were rarely written down but were passed down through the telling, until modern times began to change this.

Dakota and Navajo actor Dallas Goldtooth joins other influencers — people who have earned the community’s trust — in a two-phase public outreach effort by nonprofit organizations IllumiNative, the Urban Indian Health Institute, and 13 Native groups in states including Alaska, Minnesota, and California