Tag: Dakotas

Lakota leaders including (clockwise from top left) Standing Rock’s Phyllis Young, Oglala Sioux Tribe President Julian Bear Runner, Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier, and Rosebud President Rodney Bordeaux have come together to call for a public hearing on a proposal which would nearly double the oil running through the Dakota Access pipeline. The following is … Continued

The Dakotas—the modern states of North and South Dakota—are a part of the Northern Plains, an area which was buffalo country from the time of de-glaciation until modern agriculture in the nineteenth century. A few of the archaeological findings regarding the Dakotas BCE are described below. Early Pre-contact Period: The time from first settlement by … Continued