By Chet Brokaw
Pierre, South Dakota (AP)
The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe has created a new company called Sioux Wind to generate electricity from wind turbines that would be built on or near the tribe’s reservation in central South Dakota.
The tribe will own 80 percent of the new company. The other 20 percent will be owned by Dalton Creations of Houston, which will lead the effort to raise $15 million from investors to launch the wind farm.
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Fort Thompson, South Dakota (AP)
South Dakota’s Crow Creek Tribe recently celebrated a settlement it reached during February with the Internal Revenue Service.
The tribe will regain about 11 square miles of land seized and sold by the IRS in December to help pay off a...03-12-2010, 05:04 PM -
Sioux Falls, South Dakota (AP)
A tribe in Minnesota says it is giving $1 million to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe in eastern South Dakota to build an independent living project for senior citizens.
The money is from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
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Pierre, South Dakota (AP)
Dueling companies are threatening to take each other to court over the right to generate electricity from wind turbines that would be built on the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe’s reservation in central South Dakota.
Dalton Creations of Houston announced...06-01-2009, 01:01 PM -
Lower Brule, South Dakota (AP)
The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe has banned alcohol sales on the impoverished central South Dakota reservation – a move critics say will kill the tribe’s Golden Buffalo Resort and Casino.
Tribal Chairman Michael Jandreau said he has seen too...08-28-2009, 12:19 PM -
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Meatpacking plant a success for South Dakota tribe
Thursday, July 8, 2004
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota isn't having any problems selling meat processed and...07-09-2004, 11:20 PM