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January 14, 2021
PIERRE, S.D. In the annual “State of the Tribes” address, this years speaker, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Mike Faith, encouraged cooperation between Native Americans and the state government. Faith spoke of economic benefits that cooperation could bring, and stressed the need for partnerships on things like infrastructure improvements.
“I wanna mend fences, I wanna make partnerships…it’s time to put differences aside – and we can do that – we just have to understand each other. We’re no different than the next-door neighbor. We can help each other for a better economy, better understanding, better education…but we have to be willing to do that,” he added.