they created lowo, or lakota people caring for our children. it's the tribes' own child protection agency, and it empowers tribal courts in a unique way. >> lakota people, we've always lived crowded. you know you look at the teepee thing and so you can get four or five girls lying on the floor in the bedroom and as long as they were safe and as long as they were loved and as long as they were protected and fed that's acceptable. dss would not allow that in any placements. using our tradition and culture we were able to find a lot of kids permanency with extended family. bernice's great grandchildren have been able to live here together, go to school and retain their connection to lakota culture. >> say sappa. >> sappa. >> there you go. >> the best thing in life is that we love each other. we share with each other. we care for each other. and our wolakota ways of life is very precious, very sacred way of life for us. for young people who don't have extended family who can take them in, the transitional living program, or tlp, creates a tiospaye

it was valuable to the lakotas as well.so it's no wonder the black hills, the lakotas called the black hills to meet back. there were lots and lots of bison in 18th century. later, the black hills became sacred to the lakotas, the first place created on the world's surface, they say. and the point from which the lakotas people emerged. in 1876, so a century after the lakotas discovered it, the training seize control of the black hills. and then in early 20th century the lakotas sued, and there was an extended lawsuit. they were eventually successful in 1980. they were awarded by the supreme court $102 million for the black hills. but this sits untouched to this day and interest-bearing account. it is now worth well over $1 billion. but standing bull descendents won't touch it but holding out for the return of the black hills themselves. so this is a legacy of 1776, which is still with us today. here is this massive photograph i described to you earlier. you can see how serpentine -- this is one section. this is where the ar

arrest me, he thought he was just coming in for a talk and that is when he was stabbed, maybe by a lakota or maybe by an army military. there has never been 100%. he talks about it a lot and it was something that he wrote about. but he didn't personally write about it. at that time sometimes he wrote in sometimes fanny wrote it. fanny was writing the journal and she didn't mention anything of bringing this into camp robinson that day and shouldn't say anything about his role in caring for him that day. however, she did mention that he died late in the evening, 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. at night. and after he died, he went back to his quarters there and the crowd went with him and slept on the porch of their home. mostly because he probably feared for the safety of mcgillycuddy. it was a very volatile day and night. and so by his presence there, it was like he tried his best to help. so fanny wrote about this with mcgillicuddy coming home late in the evening. but that they slept on the porch that evening to watch over them. so that is all that was written by the two of them, personally. so

they get across the bridge and not even a mile away and they are ambushed by the lakota, cheyenne, and arapahoe gathered together to get revenge for sand creek. they wheel around and raced back to the fort. casper collins and four other soldiers are killed. amazingly, the other guys made it back. about four hours later, the army supply wagons show up on the horizon. this is called the battle of red butte and the army sees the wagons show up and fire a warning shot with their cannons . the tribes see them and race out in that direction and attacked the wagon supply train. it was led by commissary sergeant amos custard. there were 25 guys with that group. there were five of them an -- in an advanced guard and they wheel to the right and raced down to the river and get rid of their horses and three of those guys actually made it back to the fort. all the rest of the people at the supply wagons were killed. shortly after that because of the battles and because we have a young lieutenant named caspar collins who was the son of the regimental colonel, the army changes the name of this fort.

a death wind blew across the prairie, wrote the lakota suetax warrior. >> the skinning yards, just to know they were slaughtered just for their tongues or their hides. it makes me angry. >> it was a shame, something we should be ashamed of. even though we are not this generation, we should be ashamed that human beings did this to the buffalo. >> but slowly but surely thanks ocareful managements the buffalo are coming back. at custer state park the herd has grown so it must be culled every year. the buffalo inspected and innoculated against infectious diseases. then branded. so the animals can be tracked over time. craig pugsley helps coordinate the annual roundup in the 40th year. >> we would do the roundup whether anybody showed up or not. we need to bring in the the herd and get an accurate number of the animals we have. we vaccinate the heifer calves for brucellosis. >> how long will you keep riding here? >> until the day i die. my goal is to be riding and hit the ground dead as i right my horse. >> chasing the buffalo? >> chasing the buffalo. >> now the herd number nearly 400,000.

. >> and for mary ann edinger proud of her lakota heritage. >> it almost made me cry watching them runt, something pulls at my heart. >> soon over a ridge top the first buffalo break the horizon, barely visible at first butter then the whips crack and the cowboys holler the way they always have. >> get up there! hey, get up there! come on bulls, come on bulls. >> and the vast empty planes come to life. the ground itself shaking from the thundering hooves. a sound so ominous it terrifies a herd of wild elk and sends them scattering for safety. if the scene seems somehow familiar, no wonder. it was right here, in this valley, with the ancestors of these very buffalo, where a star studded cast filmed the classic, "how the west wan won." and for these modern cowboys even with modern help, trying to herd the buffalo on their turf and not getting their way -- >> watch her jeff, watch her. >> was a heart pounding thrill. buffalo are fierce and fast, able to outrun a man bursts. >> when you are out there in the thundering herd what is it like? >> very exciting, racing along, wind flying, buffa

they're interchangeable; it's like the seminoles, the cherokees, the lakotas, the navajos, you know?ou know, whoever it might be, at the end, they... you know, that's the hollywood version of indians in movies. and so i said, you know, "what's different about this?" and what's different about it is that, you know, we went, you know, inside the house. we actually showed wes studi, you know, as a slave owner, which is not a great moment in cherokee history. but it's inside where we're seeing something we haven't ever seen before. and when i'm shooting the scene with wes studi riding a horse, and he comes down and he's talking to his slaves in cherokee, i say to myself, "this has never been seen before, filmically, i don't think." and so it's those images-- you know, the good, the bad, the ugly, the humorous-- that, you know, as native people, i want to pull back and start to see, you know? and we shall remain really took some strides in showing something different about native people. >> hinojosa: were you surprised when you got that call to have you direct that kind of a film? >> i'm

dating back to 1859 built on the north platte river to protect telegraph lines against race from the lakota and cheyenne nations. together with our cable partners, our staff recently visited to explore the city's history. learn more about casper all weekend long on american history tv. >> i would like to welcome you to the salt creek museum. we have rooms full of wonderful history of the salt creek lateeld going back to the 1880's. 1934 miller schultz in save a pen and a quill from her high school desk. she asked her teacher if she could have it, and her teacher said yes. why would you want that pauline? she said, someday, i want to have a museum. she saved things and save things her entire life. her husband walter was a very large man. she was short and kind of feisty. he said, pauline, why are you saving this old stuff? was, because, walter, someday it is going to be important. there is evidence there in the corner of pauline's reward when she went to washington, d.c. and received the national humanities medal for history from president bush, the culmination of a dream. pauline had a grea