Join George Mason University’s Mason Speaker Series for a talk on a famous literary Native American hero! Most of us know about Hiawatha from Longfellow’s long poem, The Song of Hiawatha. But there ...

CANTON, S.D. (KELO) — The U.S. is planning a national investigation into hundreds of Indian boarding schools that operated across the nation. South Dakota once had 25 of them. The motto was “kill the ...

On May 8, 1897, South Dakota Senator Richard F. Pettigrew introduced a bill on the floor of the senate. Its purpose was to establish “an Indian insane asylum” at Canton. The bill was read twice and ...

An insane asylum for Native Americans once stood on the eastern edge of Canton, SD. What it was supposed to be and what happened there are two very different stories. On this edition of Inside ...

The amber-colored waters of the Tahquamenon River cascade over its Upper Falls, sending 40,000 gallons of water down a 50-foot vertical drop every second. The river and its two falls (the smaller ...

10 years in Spokane and I had yet to explore one of our region’s greatest resources. But last week, we changed that and my husband and I took our boys on the Trail of the Hiawatha. It was everything I ...