As flashbulbs pop to record the formal signing of the Takings Act of 1949, tribal chairman George Gillette chokes back his emotions as Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug signs the bill that would flood the ancestral home of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people. (AP/Worldwide photos) The Senate vote was close, 51-40, but […]
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COVID has been expensive. Not only has it cost me my employment, forced all my everyday expenses to bloat, and eaten away my savings while starving my retirement, but it has also forced me to pay a toll in personal identity and humility. Prior to COVID, I frequently used my career as an excuse to
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In the mid-fifties a nation-wide re-release of the 1939 block buster, Gone With The Wind , hit the screens. In our small town, you could easily spot the sole movie theater on Main Street by the vee-shaped marquee that protruded over the sidewalk above the double doored entry. Movies remained one of the main
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