Titonwan Tours
Not a Monument.
A Living Nation.
Private Indigenous-led interpretation tours through the Black Hills, Pine Ridge Reservation, Wounded Knee, and Fort Robinson, led by award-winning Lakota journalist James Giago Davies
More Than a Tour
Titonwan Tours was created with a simple purpose: to provide thoughtful historical interpretation rooted in Indigenous perspectives rather than conventional sightseeing. Our experiences connect the landscapes of the Black Hills, Pine Ridge Reservation, Wounded Knee, and Fort Robinson through history, treaty relationships, culture, and lived experience.
Our tours are intentionally limited to small groups. This allows for conversation, questions, and a level of engagement that is impossible on a large bus tour. Guests are invited into an experience that is personal, immersive, and intellectually meaningful.
Led by award-winning Lakota journalist James Giago Davies, each tour is designed to provide historical context rather than scripted entertainment. We believe understanding these places requires context, not just observation.
This is not simply a tour of landmarks—it is an opportunity to better understand a living nation and the history that continues to shape it today.
Explore Our Experiences
Each experience follows a different historical journey across Lakota homelands. Rather than conventional sightseeing, these experiences connect landscape, treaty history, culture, and lived experience through an Indigenous perspective. Explore the experiences below to discover the stories behind the places
Black Hills and Fort Robinson Experience
Journey Itinerary
Full Day Experience | Approximately 8-9 Hours
A full-day private tour through Black Hills history, treaty lands, Fort Robinson, and places connected to Lakota resistance, survival, and memory.
This experience connects the Black Hills, Fort Robinson, and surrounding treaty lands through Indigenous-led interpretation rooted in history, place, and lived experience.
Key stops and themes may include the Black Hills, Fort Robinson, treaty and military history sites, places connected to Lakota homelands, the life, death, and legacy of Crazy Horse, and the continuing presence of Lakota people and history.
Fort Robinson occupies a central place in Lakota history. The tour examines the final days of Crazy Horse, the military campaigns that transformed the northern plains, and the lasting consequences of federal expansion into Lakota homelands.
Throughout the day, historical events are connected to place, allowing visitors to experience the landscape itself as part of the story rather than simply its backdrop.
A lunch stop is included during the tour. Guests are responsible for purchasing their own meals.
Private tour for a minimum of 2 guests at $350 per person. For larger groups, please contact us to discuss availability and options
Wounded Knee & Pine Ridge Experience
Journey Itinerary
Full Day Experience | Approximately 8-9 Hours
A full-day private tour through Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge, and places connected to Lakota history, memory, community, and contemporary life.
For James “Jimmy” Giago Davies, this is not distant history. His Mniconjou ancestors survived the events of 1890. His mother was born at Wounded Knee in 1930, and she and her siblings attended Holy Rosary Mission boarding school, now Mahpiya Luta ( Red Cloud ) Indian School. His Giago grandparents also worked for many years at Gildersleeve’s Trading Post near Wounded Knee.
This experience provides Indigenous-led interpretation of Wounded Knee and the Pine Ridge Reservation, connecting public history with family memory, treaty history, and the lived realities of Lakota people today.Stops throughout the day explore Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation, education, sovereignty, treaty history, cultural continuity, and contemporary Lakota life.
A lunch stop is included during the tour. Guests are responsible for purchasing their own meals.
Private tour for a minimum of 2 guests at $350 per person. For larger groups, please contact us to discuss availability, and options.
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Meet Your Guide
James Giago Davies
Founder | Lead Interpretor
James Giago Davies is a noted Lakota journalist, writer, and commentator whose work has focused extensively on Lakota history, treaty rights, federal Indian policy, the Black Hills, and contemporary Indigenous affairs.
An enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, James brings a lifetime of connection to Lakota history, communities, and homelands to every Titonwan Tours experience.
He is the nephew of the late Tim Giago, founder of the Lakota Times—the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States—and a founder of the Native American Journalists Association.
Through Titonwan Tours, James combines journalism, historical research, lived perspective, and storytelling to offer guests something rarely available in traditional tourism: a deeper understanding of the Black Hills and Lakota homelands through Indigenous interpretation.
These are not scripted sightseeing tours.
They are place-based conversations rooted in history, memory, landscape , and perspective—for travelers seeking meaning beyond the monument.
Tours
Pricing
$350 per person.
2-guest minimum for online booking
Online booking reserves your tour for 2 guests ($700 ). If your party has more than 2 guests, or if you are travelling solo, please contact us before booking so we can arrange your reservation.
Every tour is private and reserved exclusively for your party. We never combine unrelated groups.
- 700 US dollars
- 700 US dollars