SIOUX FALLS | A shortage of donated firewood supplies is hampering sweat lodge purification ceremonies for South Dakota State Penitentiary inmates. The sweat lodge ceremonies are usually held six ...

Inmates chop wood for a sweat lodge ceremony at the South Dakota State Penitentiary on Aug. 17, 2018, in Sioux Falls. (Briana Sanchez photo/courtesy Argus Leader) The South Dakota Department of ...

WINNEBAGO, NEB. -- Charles Sully may be a second grader but he already knows the important role Native Americans played in the very first Thanksgiving. "Pilgrims didn't know how to feed themselves," ...

Lawmakers on an audit committee got a rundown Monday about a weekslong lockdown at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, but every word that hadn’t already appeared in state prison press ...

DAYTON, Wyo. (AP) - An Oglala Sioux Indian who says fire is essential for his traditional sweat lodge religious ceremonies was cited for a second time for violating a town ordinance against open fires ...

The South Dakota Department of Corrections says it will rebuild three sweat lodges dismantled during a weekslong lockdown at the state penitentiary in Sioux Falls. The DOC started what it described as ...