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can get a job, he said.
• Yet that media coverage on poverty and alcoholism has drawn many people from outside the reservation to donate their time and money to travel to Pine Ridge to try to help.
• "It's the sort of story that Al Jazeera does. It fits very much with our mission," said Brian Wheeler, a producer with Al Jazeera English based in Washington, D.C., who traveled to Pine Ridge in May with two others to report on the alcohol lawsuit. It was Wheeler's first time to South Dakota and the reservation, he said.
• "The level of poverty here is striking," he said outside the tribal headquarters as he set up an interview with Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear.
• Poor Bear asked the Al Jazeera reporters why they were coming to Pine Ridge just to report about the issue of alcoholism.
• "Why don't you guys write anything good about us," he asked?
• Still, some tribal members said they are grateful for any media coverage.
• Helen Red Feather, who lives in the Wounded Knee district of the reservation, said a few select people in power tend to keep the rest of the tribe down.
• "I want people to see what's going on in this reservation," the 57-year-old said as she hawked beaded jewelry near the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, where hundreds of men, women and children were killed by the 7th Cavalry in 1890. "We have nothing."

• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department says it will ask for an increase in several nonresident hunting license fees to bring in more than $1 million in additional revenue next year.
• The proposal will be presented to the state Game, Fish and Parks commissioners in Deadwood on Thursday.
• A nonresident 10-day small game license would increase by $10 to $120, while an annual shooting preserve license would go up by $10 to $95. Two nonresident shooting preserve licenses would go up $5, with a 1-day costing $40 and a 5-day costing $70.
• Non nonresident waterfowl licenses would go up $10, with a 10-day running $120 and a 3-day costing $85.
• South Dakota's hunting industry commonly draws outdoor enthusiasts from Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming.
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