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• In Minnesota, the leader of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe said the tribe was concerned that it won't receive normal reimbursement for health services and that health workers might go unpaid for some hours.
• Tribal chairwoman Erma Vizenor also said plans to stock local lakes with sturgeon and other species in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service might have to be postponed.
• The Navajo Nation, which spans parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, so far has seen no major impacts from the shutdown. But that could change if the shutdown persists, said Erny Zah, a spokesman for the tribe.
• For example, the tribe is exploring the purchase of a coal mine in northwestern New Mexico. Zah said the federal Office of Surface Mining needs to approve certain aspects of the plan over the next month for it to move forward.
• The NCAI said even if the shutdown is resolved soon, budget cuts already planned for 2013 will mean less money for the Indian Health Service, education programs, law enforcement, housing and road maintenance work.
• "The (federal government's) trust responsibility to tribal nations is not a line item, and tribal programs must be exempt from budget cuts in any budget deal," the group said in a statement.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Rapid City woman who served in the South Dakota Legislature in the late 1970s has died.
• The governor's office says Patricia Kenner died Saturday at age 84.
• She served from 1975 to 1979 in the state House of Representatives.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard ordered flags lowered to half-staff at the Capitol Thursday, the day of Kenner's funeral.
• According to her obituary, she worked as a registered nurse and night supervisor and raised seven children with her husband, Robert, who managed Howard's Body Shop in Rapid City.
• Patricia Kenner also served on the Rapid City School Board for nine years and on other committees.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A prosecutor says a Rapid City man shot by a trooper

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