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NCAI seeks aid for tribes

LEDYARD KING • Argus Leader Washington Bureau • January 30, 2010
WASHINGTON – The head of the country’s largest Native American advocacy group Friday called on the federal government to give tribes more aid for impoverished reservations and greater authority to use their lands as they see fit. 

In a speech to tribal leaders at the National [...]

Two weeks after mammoth storm, Cheyenne River Reservation still struggling

Wayne Ortman Journal staff 
Roger Lawien This Jan. 29, 2010 photo provided by the South Dakota Rural Electric Association shows Moreau-Grand Electric Cooperative crew digging a 4-mile long trench in the snow north of South Dakota’s Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe reservation to get to two broken wires following power and water outages caused by an ice [...]