Tim Johnson (1946–2024), longtime U.S. senator from South Dakota

Tim Johnson was a longtime U.S. senator from South Dakota who was the last Democrat to win statewide election in the state.

James Abourezk (1931–2023), first Arab American U.S. Senator

James Abourezk was a Democratic politician from South Dakota who became the first Arab American elected to the U.S. Senate.

Kevin Locke (1954–2022), Native American musician and hoop dancer

Kevin Locke was an acclaimed Native American musician and hoop dancer who worked to preserve native musical traditions.

Nick Clifford (1921–2019), last surviving Mount Rushmore carver

Nick Clifford was the last surviving worker from the team that carved the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Real Little House on the Prairie

On Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 150th birthday, we take a modern-day look at a few of the places she described in her books.

Chief David Bald Eagle (1919 - 2016), Dances With Wolves actor

David W. Bald Eagle, a Lakota chief and actor whose film credits include "Dances With Wolves," died July 22 at the age of 97.

He Saved Her Life; Now She Honors His

Transplant recipient on mission to fulfill her organ donor's bucket list.

Lakota Woman

Mary Ellen Moore-Richard knew early on there were pieces of her past amiss and missing as she grew up on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Her mostly white dad left the family and her step-father taught her to drink at age 10. At a boarding school on the reservation, she was abused, taught to practice Christianity, and admonished not to use her native tongue. No wonder, then, that by the 1970s she had joined the American Indian Movement—AIM—an activist group that protested, sometimes violently, for Indian rights.

Rose Wilder Lane, Pioneer of Liberty

We take a look back at Libertarian pioneer Rose Wilder Lane.