1903 – The Hay-Herrán Treaty was signed by United States Secretary of State John M. Hay and Colombian Chargé Dr. Tomás Herrán ...

Spearfish residents were angered by the potential removal of several sections regarding Indigenous people, affordable housing ...

Spearfish City Council hosted a public study session Wednesday to hear community members’ thoughts on proposed changes to text in the city’s draft Comprehensive Plan.Proposed goal redactions from the ...

Grant secretly instructed officials not to enforce the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, allowing miners to flood the territory. "Congress attempted to buy the Black Hills in 1876, but the Sioux refused ...

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie gave the land to the Lakota but the U.S. repossessed the property after the Great Sioux War of 1876, spurred by the discovery of gold in the area. The Sioux ...

This was guaranteed to them by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, making the carving of Mount Rushmore a disrespectful encroachment on Native American heritage and land. “The purpose of the ...

Grant secretly instructed officials not to enforce the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, allowing miners to flood the territory. "Congress attempted to buy the Black Hills in 1876, but the Sioux refused to ...

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe claimed this agreement violated the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 and could possibly contaminate their water supplies: Oahe Reservoir and the Missouri River. As the state’s ...

The news that Custer’s expedition discovered gold started a rush for the Black Hills, which the federal government had declared would always remain with the Lakota in the 1868 peace treaty at Fort ...