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This Land Is Badlands, This Land Is Your Land
NPS considers returning half of Badlands National Park to Oglala Sioux |
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09 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:44 AM on 09 Jun 2008 The National Park Service is considering returning the southern half of Badlands National Park in South Dakota to the Oglala Sioux tribe. Under the proposal, the northern half would remain a national park, but the 133,000-acre southern half would be returned to the tribe. The land was seized from the Oglala Sioux by the military in World War II fo ... |
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