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• Tribal members hold ceremonies and rituals on the land, which is owned by Leonard and Margaret Reynolds. The couple declined comment Tuesday.
• Sara Jumping Eagle, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, started a website where more than 3,500 people had donated more than $158,000 as of Tuesday. Her husband, Chase Iron Eyes, is the founder of Last Real Indians, a website that promotes indigenous writers and is trying to raise $1 million to help purchase the land. He's also trying to spread the word through social media.
• Iron Eyes said he wasn't aware that the Rosebud Sioux Tribe has increased the amount allocated, but called it "amazing" news.
• "That is extremely heartening for us to hear that," he said.
• Walking Bull said $800,000 will come from the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Land Enter

prise, which was established to piece back together the tribe's lands. The other $500,000 will come directly from the tribe, he said.
• He also said Bordeaux was talking with leaders of other tribes to put in money, though he wouldn't comment on details of those discussions. Roughly 20 tribes make up the Great Sioux Nation, which was fragmented when Native Americans were pushed to reservations and now spans several states including Montana, Wyoming, the Dakotas and Minnesota, and Canada.
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• EAGLE LAKE, Minn. (AP) -- The head football coach at Minnesota State, Mankato, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child pornography, sheriff's officials said.
• Todd Hoffner, 46, was in custody on suspicion of using underage people in a sexual performance and possession of child pornography, Blue Earth County Sheriff's Capt. Rich Murry told the Mankato Free Press (http://bit.ly/RAygjY).
• Hoffner had not been formally charged by Tuesday evening, and it was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney. His home phone number was disconnected.
• Messages left for sheriff's officials and prosecutors were not immediately returned to The Associated Press.
• Hoffner was escorted off the football practice field Friday and has been on leave from his coaching position since then, the university said in a statement. Spokesman Dan Benson added that a university investigation is pending.
• "The University is not aware of any allegations affecting university students or

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