My mother dedicated her life to teaching.   Not just teaching,  but reaching out to those left behind in America’s broad educational...

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The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota was in the headlines last fall and winter because of Native American demonstrations...

When I fall in love with an author – which I do with some regularity – it is passionately, deeply, obsessively. I set out immediately to...

At a recent history conference I learned – among other things – that the stereotypical movie depiction of circling the wagons against an...

October is pow wow time here in the Black Hills. One of the largest annual pow wows in the country is staged right here in Rapid City the...