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Battle rages over Sitting Bull memorial
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STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. -- Drive from the town of
Mobridge west across the Missouri River, clatter four miles down a
winding path, and you find it -- a modest monument on a lush green
bluff.
This simplicity is striking because of the complex history of
what lies beneath: The remains of Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief said
to have foretold the defeat of Lt. Col. George Custer at the Battle
of Little Bighorn in 1876.
But it is more striking because of the state of extreme disrepair
that befell the resting place of one of the best-known American
Indians for half a century, until ...
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