The Lakota named the area Pahá Sápa — ”hills that are black” — for the looming, dark ponderosa pines that have been recorded to live as long as 700 years. When the Lakota and other tribes stewarded ...

Driving into the Black Hills National Forest, as the road gains elevation, raindrops hitting the windshield slow down and start swirling in the air. It’s snowing in late April, a welcome sight ...

This billionaire gold bug just made another big bet on the yellow metal. By Filip De Mott. Hedge fund manager John Paulson attending a Trump speech in New York in 2019. Spencer Platt/Getty ...

In this photo provided by SURF, Marty Two Bulls Jr., a Lakota artist, burns sage in a stove to cleanse the sacred land at the entrance of a shaft in the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a ...

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty.He also sees a scar cut deep into the heart of the universe. The mountain ...