Museum Earns South Dakota’s 2023 Great Places Award

Museum Earns South Dakota’s 2023 Great Places Award

The Aktá Lakota Museum has been named one of South Dakota’s Great Places for 2023, a prestigious award it has received since 2002 when it was formerly known as the Great Star Award. This recognition, given annually by the state’s Department of Tourism,...
South Dakota DOT Construction Update

South Dakota DOT Construction Update

1-90 West and 190 East near Chamberlain is nearing the end! Nov. 9, 2023: A traffic switch took place on the Interstate 90 project at Chamberlain, on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. Traffic is currently traveling in a two-way configuration in the westbound lanes. In the...
Holiday Open House!

Holiday Open House!

The Museum’s Gift Shop supports local and regional American Indian artists.  The store features unique original art from handmade jewelry to colorful pottery, hand-made star quilts, American Indian history books, cards, and artistically designed t-shirts . . .  all...
Opening in November

Opening in November

Wóyake: Language in Lakota Art Curated by David A. Meyer II, ALM Assistant Curator Open November 13, 2023 Opening Reception November 16, 2023 | 4 – 6 PM Wóyake: Language in Lakota Art exhibit shares paintings and works that express wóyake the act of storytelling...