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Storyteller to speak at Fort Union Rendezvous
• WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) -- An Oglala Sioux storyteller, poet and scholar will speak at the Fort Union Rendezvous in North Dakota.
• Jerome Kills Small of Pine Ridge, S.D., is a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the South Dakota Humanities Council and a Reconciliation Award from former South Dakota Gov. George Mickleson.
• The event runs Thursday through Sunday. Kills Small will speak at 2 p.m. CDT Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• The rendezvous will feature a dozen traders along Trader's Row extending out the reconstructed post's north gate. The traders will feature an array of furs and handcrafted items for sale.
• Re-enactors will demonstrate a variety of 19th century fur trade skills including blacksmithing, beaver skinning, brain tanning, bow making, and flint knapping.
• Several Rendezvous Run events will take place on Saturday morning.
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SD officials say state GDP up 1.9 percent in 2012
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota officials say a preliminary estimate indicates that the state's gross domestic product rose by 1.9 percent last year.
• GDP statistics are released by the U.S. Commerce Department as a measure of comprehensive economic activity. GDP is the sum of all goods and services produced.
• Pat Costello, commissioner of the Governor's Office of Economic Development, says South Dakota's increase in 2012 was not as high as it was in the previous year. But he says South Dakota's manufacturing sector had the fifth highest increase in the nation.
• Costello says the agricultural sector's GDP was down by 16 percent last year in South Dakota, mostly because of the drought that hit the entire state.
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Minimum-security inmate missing in South Dakota
• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- Authorities are searching for an inmate who went missing from a minimum-security prison in Yankton.
• Corrections officials say Richard Beckwith signed out of the Yankton Minimum (Continued on page 22)
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