Latest Stories: Buffalo Nation - Native Americans in Pine Ridge: lakota09

A scene of Wakpamni Lake Annual Powwow on the 4th of July. In the late 19 century to the 1970s, the practice of native American religious ceremonies had been banned, even the use of their language in public. Now they can freely practice any faith or tradition, but the cost of losing their identity is big: most practitioners are now the elder or children, not the youths.