When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty, he also sees a scar cut deep into the heart of the universe.

Two Bulls also respected the work being conducted by some of the world’s top minds inside the Black Hills, and he wanted to find a way to show them that this place was important long before its value ...

a former gold mine in the Black Hills, in Lead, S.D., Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Kate Shelton/SURF via AP) ...