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01/01/2005:

"How the Justice Department Continues to Screw the Sioux"

They Waste No Time Putting Indians in Prison;
Do Nothing to Protect Them from Corporate Plunder

An attorney who represented the Oglala Sioux Tribe in a Grand Jury probe says an official with the U.S. Attorney's office in Rapid City failed to follow up on the theft of documents, a loss that essentially destroyed the tribe's argument.

Part of the case involved claims against corporations that build homes on the reservation, dwellings that contain a disproportionately high level of mold. The head of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Housing Authority says that of the 1,700 housing units on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 73 percent have been found to contain mold, which can lead to sinus and respiratory infections.

Full Article : counterpunch.org