The LAKOTa 
White Plume Family
Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way)
The White Plume family's site highlights their activism work and lists ways that people can contact and help them.
Inter-Tribal Coalition to Defend Bear Butte
This Lakota website supports protection of the sacred Mato Paha — Bear Butte Mountain — in South Dakota, an effort the White Plume family champions.
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Debra White Plume serves as a delegate to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The forum's website includes a Declaration of Rights as well as records of proceedings regarding indigenous-population issues around the world.
Oglala Sioux Tribe
The Oglala Sioux Tribe's website includes information about their government, history, schools and land, as well as news. Alex White Plume was a member of the Tribal Council from 1982-1984 and from 1990-1992.
Natives Unite: Hemp at Pine Ridge
This part of the Natives Unite website focuses on the White Plume legal case and includes a downloadable copy of the final judgment explaining the court's position.
Organizations
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
There are 561 federally recognized tribal governments in the United States. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is responsible for administering services and managing land held in trust by the U.S. government for American Indian tribes. Due to litigation, most of the website's resources are currently offline.
The Native American Rights Fund
This nonprofit law firm is dedicated to defending Native American rights. The website includes the National Indian Law Library, an extensive collection of legal documents, including documents related to events featured in the film.
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
The website of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation includes historical and current information about tribal land rights and sovereignty issues.
History
New Perspectives on The West: Events
The website for Ken Burns' documentary about the American West includes a detailed timeline highlights major events in American history, including the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty, in which the United States government agrees to divide several tracts of land between the Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Arikara, Assiniboin, Mandan, Gros Ventre and other tribes pledging that the tribes will retain possession of their land forever.
Circle of Stories
Four Native Americans share stories about their culture in this beautiful site. Rosella Archdale, a Lakota medicine lodge woman, tells the story of the cooking spirit. Learn about Lakota culture and cuisine in this engaging site.
Articles
Washington Post: On Pine Ridge, a String of Broken Promises
Written during the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, this article describes the harsh conditions and economic impoverishment among the Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Promised federal help fails to materialize again and again, infant mortality is twice the rate of the rest of the country, life expectancy is the nation's lowest and progress on the reservation, as the article points out, is "best measured in inches." (October 21, 2004)
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