The U.S. Department of Justice sued the owners of a Rapid City, South Dakota hotel on Wednesday, alleging that they violated the civil rights of Native Americans by trying to ban them from the ...

The Department of Justice is suing a hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota over a policy that allegedly prohibited Native Americans, federal prosecutors announced last week. The lawsuit alleges that ...

The Grand Gateway Hotel of Rapid City, South Dakota, was accused of banning Native people. After the owner said in March she was banning Natives, tribes issued the hotel a trespassing notice.

A South Dakota woman who said she would ban Native Americans from her hotel cannot manage the establishment for four years and must publicly apologize under agreement with the U.S. Justice Department.