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Widow Of Civil Rights Activist Wants Him Home

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 04.27.2012

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their f...

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Native And Rural Communities Face Devastating Post Office Closures

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2012

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Georgianne Nienaber

While winter has spared remote areas of Minnesota this year, proposed budget cuts will slam the North Country if the U.S. Post Office abandons its location in Ponsford.

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'60s Memoir Troublemaker Speaks to Us Now

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.17.2011

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Michael Sigman

My sense that there's an inverse relationship between the draft and war -- more of the former produces less of the latter.

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The Moon of the Popping Trees

Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tim Giago

The Lakota people say that only 50 people out of the original 350 followers of Sitanka (Big Foot) survived the massacre.

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