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4 hrs ago | KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Signs Of Suicide Struggles

It's a topic many people deal with, but not many are willing to talk about. That may be a large part of the problem contributing to the growing number of teenage suicides.

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Tue Feb 09, 2010

KOTA

SD Senate OKs nursing home for Pine Ridge

Sen. Jim Bradford, R-Pine Ridge, said the reservation needs a nursing home so elderly people don't have to live in facilities located far away.

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

Omaha World-Herald

Alcohol lobbyists oppose bill

Even lobbyists for the liquor industry agreed Wednesday that it was a good idea for the state to help establish an alcohol detoxification center near Whiteclay, Neb.

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Fri Feb 05, 2010

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Snow Removal Business Going Through The Roof

Where most of us think of winter's snow and ice as a homeowner's headache, one Brandon man, instead, sees opportunity.

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Wed Feb 03, 2010

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

SD Senate Panel OKs Nursing H...

A South Dakota Senate committee has endorsed a plan to build a nursing home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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Tue Feb 02, 2010

KOTA

Pine Ridge Students help Eagle Butte storm victims

Even though crime rates on South Dakota's Indian Reservation's have been an ongoing problem.

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Wed Jan 27, 2010

StartupJournal

Storm Takes Toll on Destitute Tribe

Close U.S. NEWS By JOEL MILLMAN Fallen power poles at a community pow-wow ground after a storm hit Ziebach and Dewey counties in South Dakota.

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Tue Jan 19, 2010

The Camden Chronicle

Auto Zone delivers local goods to Lakota Indians

David Noles teaches at Little Wound School, located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

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Sat Jan 16, 2010

Char-Koosta News

SKC Bison and Lady Bison games on tap Saturday

The Salish Kootenai College Bison and Lady Bison will take to the court Saturday, Jan.

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Thu Jan 14, 2010

ArgusLeader.com

Indians urged to get vaccine

H1N1 flu has been more than twice as deadly for Native Americans than South Dakotans as a whole because of other risks the tribal population faces.

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Tue Jan 12, 2010

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Pine Ridge

My friend and esteemed Keloland colleague, Cory Heidelberger, alerts us to an article we ought to notice in the British Guardian.A The article is about the Pine Ridge Reservation, and it is dispiriting reading.

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The Huffington Post

Tim Giago: Theresa Two Bulls: A lady of distinction

There are those who choose to take jobs that almost immediately make them unpopular, at least unpopular to those factions that are always on the opposing side.

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Mon Jan 11, 2010

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Pine Ridge: Unemployment 80%, Life Expectancy 50; Candidates Mostly Quiet

Conditions on the reservation are tough. More than 80% unemployment. A desperate shortage of housing a ' on average, more than 15 people live in each home and others get by in cars and trailers.

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Guardian Unlimited

Two young men from Pine Ridge at the local cemetery where five members of their gang are buried.

The US president has pledged to improve the lives of Native Americans. But he faces huge challenges, such as those on Pine Ridge Indian reservation where unemployment is more than 80%, the average wage is A 4,400 a ' and life expectancy is 50 Two young men from Pine Ridge at the local cemetery where five members of their gang are buried.

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Thu Dec 31, 2009

Examiner.com

Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre

December 29 marks the anniversary of the Battle of Wounded Knee. This 1890 conflict is what many people call the last battle of the Indian wars in the United States.

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Wed Dec 23, 2009

Asheville Citizen-Times

Does not understand the brouhaha over Indian mascots

Regarding the story "Indian mascot ire simmers/Commission wants schools to nix names" : I grew up in Nebraska during the 1940s to the early 1960s, near the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.

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Mon Dec 21, 2009

Rabble.ca

What I'm riding for this year -- on horse -- during my anti-colonial holiday season

Jessica Yee is a multiracial youth of Native descent who was called to the line of action by raising controversy in her Catholic school and began volunteering at Homeward Family Shelter at the age of 12.

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Wed Dec 16, 2009

The Huffington Post

Tim Giago: Dee Brown's book on its 40th anniversary

When Dee Brown wrote his book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," he could not have known that it would become a classic.

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Mon Dec 14, 2009

The Dispatch

Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation

Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang.

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The Ledger

Indian Reservations See Increase in Gang Activity

Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:52 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:52 p.m. PINE RIDGE, S.D. At 24, Richard Wilson is practically an elder of the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips gang and one of 5,000 young men from the Oglala Sioux tribe involved with at least 39 gangs on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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