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The Unfashionable
In the year of "Dances with Wolves," everybody wanted to be on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Nearly a decade later, it can hardly get a quorum. Reporter Peter Carlson looks at the problems still plaguing America's Indian reservations, from extreme poverty to an inefficient bureaucracy at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Tags: Indians; BIA; treaties; Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell; gaming; poverty; Black Hills
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"Inside a Sioux Reservation: Villages of Despair. Injustice at Rosebud"
This three-part series paints a vivid portrait of the struggling inhabitants of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, a community decimated by alcoholism, crime and crumbling social institutions, despite $7 million annual handouts from the federal government.