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Shaun Nielsen stands for a portrait in Sioux Park in Rapid City, S.D. Nielsen, a middle-school social studies teacher in the Rapid City Area School District, was part of a commission formed to help develop new social studies standards in South Dakota. Nielsen said before the group began its work, he got a thick packet of materials from Hillsdale College, a conservative Michigan school, that ultimately formed what the state's public schools students could be expected to learn about American history and civics. (Matt Gade/Rapid City Journal via AP)

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Conservative college's curriculum gets foothold in S. Dakota
By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press
Sun,09/11/22-8:36AM , 163 Reads
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A few days before middle school teacher Shaun Nielsen joined a work group to develop South Dakota's social studies standards, he got a thick package in the mail.
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This Feb. 7, 2012 photo shows a cross on a grave at the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in South Dakota. Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have agreed to purchase 40 acres of land near the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (Rapid City Journal via AP)

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South Dakota tribes buy land near Wounded Knee massacre site
By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press
Sat,09/10/22-10:34AM , 135 Reads
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to purchase 40 acres around the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, the site of one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks on Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A South Dakota ethics board’s finding that Noem may have engaged in misconduct by intervening in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license is likely not the last word on the matter. But exactly how much more comes out on the episode may be up to the Republican governor herself. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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Gov. Kristi Noem tried to avoid ethics hearing, seal records
By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press
Fri,09/09/22-9:58AM , 124 Reads
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked a state ethics board to dismiss a complaint against her without a public hearing and to seal off certain records, documents released Friday by the state’s Government Accountability Board show.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks on Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A South Dakota ethics board’s finding that Noem may have engaged in misconduct by intervening in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license is likely not the last word on the matter. But exactly how much more comes out on the episode may be up to the Republican governor herself. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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SD Gov. Kristi Noem weighs response to ethics complaints
By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press
Wed,08/24/22-2:43PM , 125 Reads
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota ethics board’s finding that Gov.
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