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Sioux share and struggle in Rapid City camp life
Hal Boyle reports on Sioux families leaving reservations for work near Rapid City. A system of sharing, once vital, now strains under crowding as 2,500 Indians camp along Rapid Creek with high tuberculosis and pediatric pneumonia rates. Health workers worry as sanitation clashes with nomadic roots and poverty.
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Rapid City
S. D
Sitting Bull
Eton Donovan
Donovan
Ben Sedelaeck
Rapid Creek
Black Hills
Sedelaeck
Surry
Camp
Crane