Watch the YouTube video below to see unedited footage showing voter suppression at the Roosevelt County Courthouse in Montana on Friday, October 25, 2024. Later that day, courthouse workers threatened to have Four Directions Native Vote workers arrested for helping with voter registration.

A century after the Indian Citizenship Act made their ancestors US citizens and acknowledged their right to vote, Indigenous Americans still face barriers to casting their ballots On June 4, Western Native Voice organizers fanned out across downtown Billings, Montana, to register voters. Wearing sky-blue T-shirts that read “I Can Help You Register to Vote,”…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has directed the Pentagon to review 20 Medals of Honor awarded for actions during the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fire on hundreds of Native Americans, including women and children. The effort is meant to ensure no soldiers were recognized for “conduct inconsistent with the nation’s highest…

BILLINGS — Fort Peck tribal members said Thursday they are planning to file a lawsuit against two northeastern Montana counties because of how far away voting polls are from the reservation.  The lawsuit — which hasn’t been filed yet — will ask Roosevelt and Valley counties to establish satellite polls on Fort Peck lands in…

Bodies frozen in the snow, a baby with five bullet wounds, small children shot at such close range their clothes and bodies were singed with gunpowder. Army general Nelson Miles was shocked by what he found at Wounded Knee. He arrived several days after the carnage, which occurred December 29, 1890. A battle-hardened Civil War veteran, he was appalled by…