Saturday,  June 9, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 331 • 15 of 36 •  Other Editions

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tification Association's annual conference on July 24 at 8:30 a.m. MDT in Rapid City.
• Grandin is a livestock-handling facilities designer and animal handling expert. Almost half of all slaughter cattle in North America are handled using the center track restrainer system that Grandin designed.
• The ILIA's annual conference runs July 22-25.

Annual march from Pine Ridge to Whiteclay Saturday

• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- An annual Justice March from Pine Ridge to Whiteclay, Neb., to honor and remember two men found dead is slated for Saturday.
• The bodies of Wally Black Elk Jr., and Ron Hard Heart were discovered June 8, 1999, near Whiteclay. Their deaths are unresolved.

• Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear is Black Elk's brother and Hard Heart's cousin. Poor Bear has organized a march every year since 1999 to bring awareness to their unresolved deaths.
• Saturday's march will start at 12 p.m. at Billy Mills Hall in the village of Pine Ridge. Supporters will then trek two miles to cross into Whiteclay.






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