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RAPID CITY - The Rapid City man who got swept up in a national voter fraud controversy after South Dakota's 2002 U.S. Senate election was on work release from the Pennington County Jail when he paid friends to help him fill out voter-registration cards. Pennington County State's Attorney Glenn Brenner said Lyle Nichols has no political affiliations or passions and was motivated solely by money when he set up a system to fill out a few hundred voter-registration cards. Nichols paid friends $1 per completed card, and the United Sioux Tribes paid him $3 per card. On Wednesday, Nichols pleaded...

CROW AGENCY - The descendants of Crazy Horse trotted across 360 miles of prairie for a chance to charge up Last Stand Hill early this morning. The 20 riders of the Great Sioux Nation Victory Ride set out June 9 from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. They wanted to take a slow, contemplative path to the battlefield where their ancestors found victory 127 years ago. It was a chance to remind the tribe's young people of the one unmistakable outcome of the battle, rider Doug War Eagle said. "We're still here," he said. Tuesday night the riders...

by David Yeagley Ask Erik Enno what “Fighting Sioux” means. “Don’t be a victim,” Enno says, “fight victimhood.” It means following the great Sioux warriors of the past, not denying their courage. Enno believes the Sioux people today must honor their fathers by being like them, not trying to remove their name. Enno is Oglala Sioux. He is also an assistant basket basketball coach for the University of North Dakota, and works at the Ralph Engelstad Arena on campus. Enno is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. “Indians must approach our future in a positive, pro-active way,” he...

Latest Accounts of the Charge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Force of Four Thousand Indians in Position Attacked by Less Than Four Hundred Troops--Opinions of Leading Army Officers of the Deed and Its Consequences--Feeling in the Community Over the Disaster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Dispatch to the New York Times RELATED HEADLINES Confirmations of the Disaster: Dispatches From Gen. Terry Received at Sheridan's Head-Quarters--Theories of the Battle--Probably Ten Thousand Sioux in Position--The Attack Condemned as Rash by Officers of Experience--Disposition of the Wounded Dispatches from Gen. Terry: Particulars of the Plan of the Movement Under Custer as Agreed on Before the March The Causes and...