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Appeals court upholds existence of SD reservation
August 26, 2009
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that found a small part of the once-huge Yankton Sioux Tribe’s reservation in southeastern South Dakota still exists and remains under the legal jurisdiction of the tribe and federal government.
The state and Charles [...]

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Native Americans and the Public Option
By TERRY ANDERSON
Bozeman, Mont.
Montana Sen. Max Baucus , a leading architect of national health-care reform, visited the Flathead Indian Reservation near Pablo, Mont., in May, and he was confronted with a surprising critique. “I hope any [new health-care] plan does not forget the nation’s first people,” Dr. LeAnne Muzquiz told [...]

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