Tag Archives: Sioux

Lessons learned from the Little Big Horn

We can learn many lessons from the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer’s Last Stand). If we can remember history, we are less likely to repeat it. Whether in Iraq, Afganistan, Iran, Canaan, or again in Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. Here are a few. Continue reading

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A little discussion of election politics in South Dakota

South Dakota, with the usual 2 senators and just 800,000 people (therefore just a single US Representative) is small potatoes as residential elections go. But still, these things add up. Especially with all the mud-slinging about the Electoral College, and … Continue reading

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Naive or just making a point?

By Nathan Barton For the past several weeks, many of us have been watching events on Standing Rock Reservation, homeland of one of the modern Lakota nations in the Dakotas, as a “grassroots” coalition fights against the Dakota Access Pipeline … Continue reading

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