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Mining has always added to the misery of reservation life. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, for instance, authorities looked away while prospectors dug on land owned by the Sioux. The sculptures of Mount Rushmore still speak with forked tongues to the large Indian population of the area. The late Lakota Chief John Fire Lame Deer claimed that the stone faces say, "Because we like the tourist dollars we have made your sacred Black Hills into one vast Disneyland...
Nowhere is the city's love affair with the University more apparent than with hockey UND's Fighting Sioux hockey squad has reached national prominence the last few years and is the town's top drawing card. The team won the NCAA championship last year but fell short this season...
...American Dental Association recommends sugar-free popcorn for snacking. The Illinois division of the American Cancer Society praises popcorn as one of the "eleven things that don't cause cancer." (Among the others: a good laugh, exercise, fruit and vegetables.) Says James Fowler of American Pop Corn Co., Sioux City, Iowa: "If you had asked a lady a few years ago whether she ate popcorn, she'd have told you, 'No, it's too fattening.' Ask the same lady today and she'll tell you it's part of her diet...
Managing Editor, Sioux City Journal Sioux City, Iowa...
Carol L. Addison Sioux Falls...