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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
CONTACT: Terry Woster, Public Information Officer, 605-773-3178
 
Presidential Disaster Declaration Approved
 
Pierre, S.D. – Gov. Mike Rounds announced today that 29 South Dakota counties and three Indian reservations will get federal financial assistance to help recover from the crippling ice storm that struck the state in late January.
 
The public assistance is [...]

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March 10, 3:13 PM San Diego News Examiner Dave Thomas
 
 

Police are searching for the son of a murdered Valley Center woman.
Sheriff’s homicide detectives are searching for the adult son of a 53-year-old woman whose bloody body was discovered at an upscale home in Valley Center.
According to authorities, Margo Jean Lucero was discovered dead by her [...]

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I spoke with Terry Woster from Governor Rounds office this morning, regarding their press release that was issued yesterday http://www.state.sd.us/governor/ (see below). 
The press release inadvertently left out Ziebach, Dewey & Corson Counties, which encompass Cheyenne River & Standing Rock Reservations. Woster did confirm both Reservations were included in the January disaster declaration request from the [...]

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By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN (AP) – 4 hours ago
SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. — The U.S. Interior Department’s assistant secretary for Indian Affairs says the federal government and tribal law enforcement officers cannot simply arrest their way out of the problems that plague Indian country.
Former prosecutor and law professor Larry Echo Hawk says the solution to [...]

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By KSFY Staff

Story Created: Mar 9, 2010 at 6:40 PM CST
President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration that will help South Dakota recover from a Christmas blizzard.

Tuesday’s declaration makes federal aid available to state and local governments and certain nonprofits in affected areas.
The declaration covers 12 counties and two reservations that were hardest hit.
Federal [...]

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Charlie Soap regrets to announce his wife Wilma Mankiller has been diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer.  Mankiller is an author, lecturer and former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.  Mankiller has served 12 years in elective office at the Cherokee Nation, the first two as Deputy Principal Chief followed by 10 years as [...]

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Ex-Cherokee chief Mankiller diagnosed with cancer
By MURRAY EVANS (AP)
OKLAHOMA CITY — The husband of former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller says his wife has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. 
Mankiller’s husband, Charlie Soap, made the announcement Tuesday in a news release issued by the tribe. 
Soap said the 64-year-old Mankiller has stage 4 metastatic pancreatic cancer [...]

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By PAUL FOY and MIKE STARK (AP)
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah businessman who worked a two-year sting operation for federal officials investigating looting of American Indian relics across the Southwest has died, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot. 
It appears to be the third suicide connected to the case. 
Ted Dan Gardiner, an antiquities dealer and former [...]

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Nuclear Waste on Native American Reservations
By Earthtalk
Feb 20, 2010 – 12:38:55 PM

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Native tribes across the American West have been and continue to be subjected to significant amounts of radioactive and otherwise hazardous waste as a result of living near nuclear test sites, uranium mines, power plants and toxic waste dumps.
And in some cases [...]

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New Tribal Radio Station Launhes in Alaska.  
 
Tribal Voices Radio lauches new internet radio show in 2010.
Their  mission is perserving our sovereignty, enhancing our economic and culture resources, and promoting self-sufficiency and self-governance for our citizens through collaboration, service and advocacy.
Please log onto www.tribalvoiceradio.com or contact us 1800-344-1432 ext 7348 to discuss any stories you may have, songs, [...]

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