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...renaissance of the Cheyenne River Sioux began with a drunk in a dumpster. One day, 11 years ago, a man passed out while foraging for food in Gregg Bourland's garbage. Bourland was minding his own business--a video store in Eagle Butte, S.D.--when he found the guy. "Why do people drink like that?" Bourland asked himself, but he knew the reasons: unemployment and despair. Bourland went to the tribal chairman to ask what he was doing about all of the above. Answer: nothing. "He was interested in government handouts, not development," says Bourland. Later that year, 1990, Bourland...
...handful of Harvard students or their families are plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The plaintiffs are predominantly members of the Sioux and Blackfeet tribes...
...opened two New Iowan Centers--referral agencies providing immigration help and job tips--in Muscatine and Sioux City. Rosa Mendoza, 44, the deputy director of the Muscatine center, says Iowa has come a long way since she moved to the Mississippi river town in 1977. "Everywhere I went, people stared," she says. "It was so bad, I didn't want to go out." Today the town of 23,000 is 12% Hispanic. On Mulberry Avenue, Mexican groceries compete for customers, and the El Cabrito restaurant dishes up taquitos. It's a glimpse of Vilsack's vision for a multicultural Iowa...
...rescue project. Instead, it's the name given in advance to the clone of a dead gaur, an endangered wild ox found in India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia. The new Noah is expected to be born any day now to Bessie, a cow living on a farm near Sioux City, Iowa. Cows have given birth to gaurs before, but this is the first time that one animal species is acting as surrogate mother to a clone--an exact genetic duplicate--of a different species. "The gaur is developing well," says Emily Poe, a spokeswoman for Advanced Cell Technologies. A small...
...only one who performs abortions after 16 weeks. He says that if the Nebraska law stands, he will shut his practice down rather than risk a $25,000 fine and 20 years in prison. Some women travel more than 25 hours by bus from the Pine Ridge Sioux reservation to get his help, which he advertises with an immense new sign on the side of the building. A smaller, older sign is taped to a window--WHAT PART OF NO TRESPASSING DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND...