where Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribes are spread out among nine reservations. Currently, teaching Native American history is optional in South Dakota, with educators reporting that more than half ...

PIERRE — A bill to move Native American culture and history from a permitted to a required part of South Dakota’s curriculum ... in the state’s nine tribes be involved in the next rewrite ...

Authorities have identified a body found on a South Dakota reservation in January as Michelle Elbow Shield, a Sioux woman who ...

SB 196 also requires the South Dakota Board of Education Standards ... said he was disappointed the state didn’t include “our Native American brothers and sisters” in the social studies ...