SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – American Indian activist Russell Means kept busy with his Hollywood career even as he battled the cancer that finally took his life. Means died Monday in Porcupine, S.D. The Internet Movie Database reports that Means had recently completed projects, and had more in the works. Means appeared in a...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Former American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means has died. Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon says Means died Monday morning at his ranch in Porcupine, S.D. Means was 72. Means helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee, reveled in stirring up attention and appeared in Hollywood...

UNDATED – (DRG News) The Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council will be meeting in Gregory today. The meeting is being held in a different location than normal-to foster economic and governmental relations with non-tribal populations in Gregory and the area that surrounds the tribe’s eastern-most community of Milk’s Camp. The 10:00 a.m. meeting will take...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A federal lawsuit is seeking money for people whose land was flooded after South Dakota’s Oahe Dam was built. The Missouri River dam was dedicated in 1962. It took more than a decade to build. The Cheyenne River Sioux tribe recently got more than $400 million for more than...