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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 [...]

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Storm Takes Steep Toll on Destitute Tribe
By JOEL MILLMAN
 
Juanita Oros/West River Eagle News
Fallen power poles at a community pow-wow ground after a storm hit Ziebach and Dewey counties in South Dakota.
A tiny tribe of Lakota Sioux has been battling wind, rain and subzero temperatures this week as ice storms lash one of the U.S.’s [...]

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For Immediate Release:
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Incident Command System
For further information:
Joe Brings Plenty, Tribal Chairman (605) 964-4155
Leo Fischer, Tri-County/Mni Waste Water System (605) 365-6940
Natalie Stites, Public Information Officer, Incident Command System
(715) 896-0158, Natalie.stites@gmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 28, 2010
DISASTER DECLARED ON THE CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX INDIAN RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Severe Ice Storms and Freezing Tempratures Have [...]

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