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...reason is coal. Beneath the prairie sod of Montana and the neighboring areas of Wyoming and North Dakota lie an estimated 1.3 trillion tons of coal and lignite-40% of the U.S.'s reserves, enough to power American industry and heat American homes for decades. Moreover, since the Western coal contains little sulfur or sodium, it will produce relatively little air pollution when it is burned. This is especially important in cities with strict air-quality laws at a time when other clean fuels (natural gas and oil with low sulfur content) are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Best...
After the Civil War, the U.S. government sent a treaty commission to Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory, now Wyoming. The commission was headed by Newton Edmunds, governor of the Territory, well-known for his ability to swindle the Indians...
...treaty commission set up shop in 1875 on the White River-at a site that is now the border between Nebraska and South Dakota-not far from the agencies given to Red Cloud and Spotted Tail by treaty with the U.S. (Agencies were parts of a reservation assigned to an Indian chief and his tribe...
...beginning of Big Foot Trail, some 45 miles west of Wounded Knee, S.D., a yellow, slightly faded billboard stands frozen against the bleak Dakota horizon. "45 miles to Wounded Knee," the billboard screams. "The historic site and mass grave of the last battle between the Indian and the white...
...speed limits for the village, 5 mph in downtown Wounded Knee and 20 mph in the suburbs. The new government also followed a prohibition policy. All liquor, which is illegal on Indian reservations, was poured out onto the brown Dakota soil...