RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Tucked away in the pristine splendor of the Badlands resides a Lakota artist who has made a living from creating art through a unique style. Kevin Pourier has been making ...

To the Lakota, Mount Rushmore is the most visible scar on the mountains. The former gold mine beneath is another, and that’s what motivated Two Bulls to use his performance art to cleanse it.

“To see how that was put together, that floored me,” said Rylan Sprague, a botanist and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux ... he wants his art project, called Azilya — the Lakota word ...