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...local actions have revolved primarily around the South Dakota reservations and the Black Hills. Of all the Indian treaties, AIM points to the 1868 Laramie treaty, which supposedly guarantees Indian control over the Black Hills. But the United States, through a series of shady maneuvers, took this scenic land from the Indian grasp...
Route 16 winds slowly through South Dakota's Black Hills, meandering leisurely toward the Pine Ridge reservation and Wounded Knee. The road is the same one that Sitting Bull traveled on his way to Canada in the 1880s, and it goes through some of the most scenic land in the United States...
...farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before, and food production dropped by more than 2%. Nixon's chosen executor of this policy, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, performed zealously. "You won't get me to apologize for high meat prices," Butz told North Dakota wheat growers last year. "I'm spending money like a drunken sailor...
Throughout the takeover, Bad Cob stayed in his tepee, even during a blinding snowstorm that struck the Dakota reservation in the third week of the occupation. He moved to the trading post, the nerve-center of the village, for only one night, when winds caused snow drifts up to five feet...
...limited extent, graduate programs are already being overhauled. Last summer South Dakota State University dropped doctoral programs in agricultural economics, chemistry, entomology and plant pathology because they were drawing few students. For similar reasons, the six state colleges and universities in Kansas are considering eliminating 63 graduate programs. And in New York, a commission has recommended that the board of regents abolish all doctoral programs that fail to meet "standards of high quality and need." Adoption of the Newman proposals would accelerate the trend toward reform-and make it nationwide...