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Today's lead stories:
Surviving the Stream: The State of South Dakota is home to
the Lakota Sioux People
Holiday Special Documentary:
Surviving the Stream: The State of South Dakota is
home to the Lakota Sioux People
The Lakota are one of just a few nations to beat the United
States in battle when they took out General Custer's 7th Cavalry
at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. But shortly afterward
the land Treaty of 1868 was broken by the US government, and
the Lakota were subjected to reservations. But today they
survive despite the broken treaties, cultural genocide, economic
oppression, and racist hatred of the last 200 years. The Lakota
still stand strong in calling for the return of their lands
and the restoration of their human rights.
While the Lakota remain culturally very rich they live in
what is economically the poorest area of the country. Many
Lakota's try to escape the 80% unemployment on the state's
reservations by traveling to Rapid City, the second largest
town in South Dakota. But when they arrive they find only
a wall of racist hatred and economic oppression awaiting them.
FSRN's Charles Michael Ray has this special Thanksgiving documentary
"Surviving on the Stream" on the plight of Homeless
Lakota people in Rapid City.
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