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• "This isn't about getting into the middle of these issues of bison and property rights," he said. "No matter what political stripe you come from, we can all agree on the important role that bison have played."
• Other sponsors of the campaign are the Intertribal Buffalo Council, which includes 57 tribes, and the National Bison Association.
• In recent years, federal and state agencies, wildlife advocates and Indian groups have revived efforts to put wild bison on more parts of the Western landscape.
• That includes the transfer in March of about 60 Yellowstone bison to northeastern Montana's Fort Peck Reservation.
• The Interior Department also has been considering bison for public lands, including Badlands National Park on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and

Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado.
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• DELL RAPIDS, S.D. (AP) -- A 39-year-old Dell Rapids man is accused of raping a 5-year-old girl.
• KDLT-TV reports that 39-year-old Adam South is being charged with eight counts of rape in the first degree and two counts of sexual contact with a child

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