Devils Lake Sioux News Today

Chris Stearns has two distinct memories from his childhood in the late 1960s. The first is somewhat hazy: a crowded New York City picnic for white families who had adopted native American boys and girls, somewhere at a hilly park.

The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 sought to keep Native children in tribal communities. The Supreme Court may change that this spring.

12/27/2005: This week, we’re bringing you stories of North Dakota in December 1926. Today’s is a tragedy involving fire and heroism.