South Dakota

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A Cheyenne historian whose grandfather was in the battle sheds new light on the slaughter of Custer and his troopers</span> </span></p>

<p>No battle in American history has won more attention than the relatively insignificant defeat at the Little Bighorn River in 1876.</p>

<p>Caught between two cultures, a young Sioux sought to make himself a hero—by killing an army officer</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The granite was tough—but so was Gutzon Borglum</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> AFTER CENTURIES OF CONFLICT OVER THEIR RIGHTS AND POWERS,</lead_in> Indian tribes now increasingly make and enforce their own laws, often answerable to no one in the United States government. Is this the rebirth of their ancient independence or a new kind of legalized segregation? </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A life-long fascination with the stories of a famous pioneering family finally drove the writer to South Dakota in hopes of better understanding the prairie life that Laura Ingalls Wilder lived there and later gave to the world.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">From its first boom during America’s biggest gold rush to its current gamble on gambling, Deadwood, South Dakota, has managed to keep itself very much alive.</span></p>