Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Chair J. Garret Renville speaks Aug. 19, 2025, to the North Dakota Tribal and State Relations Committee at Dakota Magic Casino near Hankinson, North Dakota. (Photo by Jeff ...

J. Garret Renville, chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, speaks to visitors from the State-Tribal Relations Committee about the tribe's artifacts on July 31, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota ...

BISMARCK — Just three weeks after Amos LaFromboise arrived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879, the 13-year-old became the first of at least 233 young Native Americans to die while ...

Indigenous people account for roughly 60% of missing persons cases in South Dakota, which is still an undercount according to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate’s tribal victims ...

AGENCY VILLAGE, S.D. - Gabriel Renville was an Army scout who knew something about how to navigate the rapidly changing world around him on the Lake Traverse Reservation. The year was 1867, when the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The area of South Dakota off limits to Governor Kristi Noem continues to grow, as the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe has become the fifth South Dakota tribe to ban Noem from ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe says Joe Donnell’s comments about Mount Rushmore are “not based on any traditional Dakota teachings.” Donnell, a Republican Representative ...

SISSETON, S.D. -- Toshina Oneroad's infant daughter has sparkling eyes and a sunny disposition, but her tiny cough caught the nurse's attention. Jodi Lutjens, a visiting nurse with the Indian Health ...

SISSETON, S.D. (AP) -- Four giant Fiberglas drummers were placed atop a new vocational educational building under construction at Sisseton-Wahpeton College last week. The $1.7 million octagonal ...

HANKINSON, N.D. — Members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribal nation met Tuesday, Aug. 19, with North Dakota officials and legislators, an event the tribal chair said “demonstrates respect” for the ...

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Chairman J. Garrett Renville criticized a social media post by Rep. Logan Manhart as “inflammatory” and “racially charged.” The post, which has since been deleted, referenced ...