Lee Brightman News Today

From a distance,  the green pines and the blue-gray haze that gently hug the valleys of the Black Hills merge into a deep black. The Lakota name “He Sapa” — meaning “black ridge” — describes this visual phenomenon. This is a place of origin for dozens of Native peoples and a revered landscape for more than 50 others. The land’s most recent, and perhaps longest-serving, stewards — the Oceti Sakowin, the Dakota, Nakota and Lakota people — hold the mountains central to their co...

>> all right, there you have it. our grass dancers. how about that? all right now were going to go into our contemporary style of dancing. thats our fancy mens dance and were going to start with our fancy shawl dance category. we have a couple young ladies, three of them that are going to come out. this is a modern style, contemporary style. it evolved into 1950s to present and they danced with a fancy footwork style of dancing. sometimes called the butterfly dance. so were going to go...

alcatraz, a takeover of wounded knee and led the occupation of mount rush more in south dakota in 1970. he was also one of the national coordinators in the longest walk in 1978 and a long walk for survival in 1980. president the -- at the present time mr. brightman is writing a book on the history of indian civil rights movement from the 1960s to the present. id also like to add a note that helen would like to thank lehman. he was called upon to advocate and represent the friendship ho...