EditorialIvan Looking Horse, who had relatives killed at Wounded Knee, S.D., speaks at a ceremony on Dec. 29, 2022, to mark the anniversary of the massacre and the return of Lakota cultural objects and belongings. (Tara Rose Weston/The New York Times)
EditorialGreat Sioux War of 1876. Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876). Armed engagement between combined forces of the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho tribes and the forces of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, under the comma...
EditorialTwo members of the Oglala Lakota tribe visit a mass grave of the victims of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, July 1, 2013. (Kevin Moloney/The New York Times)
EditorialFrancis Whitebird, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, in Rapid City, S.D. on July 21, 2021, who says that Lakota spirituality is being misused by non-Native establishments. (Tara Weston for The New York Times)
EditorialLakota (Teton Sioux), North or South Dakota, Sun Dance, ca. 1895, muslin, pigments, 24 x 66 in. (61 x 168 cm), Lakota paintings on muslin traditionally hung inside tipis or log cabins in order to shield living spaces from cold winds. This ambitious and...
EditorialPall bearers with the coffin of Jesse Taken Alive, a Lakota member of the Standing Rock Tribe who died of COVID-19, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge, S.D., on Dec. 26, 2020. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialGreat Sioux War of 1876. Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876). Armed engagement between combined forces of the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho tribes and the forces of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, under the comma...
EditorialThe base of the white granite monument at the Sitting Bull Camp, the site of the murder of the revered Hunkpapa Lakota leader, in Fort Yates, N.D. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialGreat Sioux War of 1876. Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876). Armed engagement between combined forces of the Northern Cheyenne, Lakota and Arapaho tribes and the forces of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, under the comma...
EditorialBeaded Child's Vest, c 1890-1900. America, Native North American, Plains, Lakota(Sioux), Post-Contact. Beaded leather; cotton lining; overall: 43.2 x 40.6 cm (17 x 16 in.).
EditorialCradle Board, c. 1900. America, Native North American, Lakota (Sioux), Post-Contact. Leather, quills, beads; overall: 20.3 x 22.9 cm (8 x 9 in.).
EditorialHide Shirt, c. 1890. America, Native North American, Central Plains, Lakota Sioux, 19th century. Hide, pigment, glass beads, human hair; overall: 97.8 x 150 cm (38 1/2 x 59 1/16 in.).
EditorialCuster's last charge. Lithograph; 19th century. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army. It occurred June 25???June 26, 1876, near the Li...