Donate to the Original Peoples of Wind Cave
Wind Cave, a national park in South Dakota, has become a tourist attraction in modern times. But for centuries before its discovery and population by outsiders, this place was home exclusively to several Indigenous nations and known by Lakota Peoples as the sacred place of creation.
Please use the donation form to the right to help fund the sacred defense of Lakota nations and other Indigenous communities associated with Wind Cave — and click Read More below to learn more about its original inhabitants. Your contribution of $100 or more comes with a trial membership to the Lakota People's Law Project!
In alphabetical order, here are tribes traditionally associated with the lands occupied by Wind Cave National Park:
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Fort Belknap Tribe
Fort Peck Tribe
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
Lower Sioux Indian Community
Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation
Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Santee Sioux Tribe
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
MHA Nation - Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara)
Yankton Sioux Tribe