History & Stories

In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the teepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young...

Almost any mention made of Custer's Last Stand today is a reference not to history but to myth. ~Excerpt from book.Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. IN CUSTERS LAST STAND,...

President U.S. Grant's national Peace Policy of 1869 set in motion the South Dakota Missionary movement. The peace plan assigned one religious denomination to each Indian Reservation to "Christianize and Civilize" the Indian. When religious groups...