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• Police say 30-year-old Rudolph Gabe and 23-year-old Bradley Lightfoot were arrested early Sunday morning following a vehicle pursuit.
• Police one man pointed a handgun at a casino clerk and demanded money shortly before midnight on Saturday. The second suspect brandished a sword. The pair fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
• The suspects led authorities on a pursuit toward Box Elder. During the chase, the suspects threw cash out the windows. Police says the suspects' van crashed through several fences before coming to a stop.
• One man was found in the vehicle and the other was found hiding in a field. Police say a handgun and sword were located on scene.
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Sioux tribes to discuss foster care, sacred sites
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Enforcement of the Indian Child Welfare Act, protecting sacred sites and the Keystone XL pipeline will be among the topics discussed at a gathering of Sioux tribal leaders next week in Rapid City.
• The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is hosting the three-day meeting that starts Monday. The meeting is the third in a series between the seven Sioux tribes in South Dakota and the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota. The tribes began meeting on a regular basis earlier this year to better focus their resources.
• "Experience shows that all going in separately -- whether it's Congress or meeting with state officials -- it just doesn't carry as much weight," said Terry Yellow Fat, the Indian Child Welfare Act director for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. "But as a group, and we are called the great Sioux Nation, basically we are one family."
• South Dakota's adherence to the Indian Child Welfare Act is a major issue for the tribes, Yellow Fat said. The federal law was passed in 1978 with the intention of keeping American Indian children from being taken from their homes and routinely placed with non-Native American adoptive or foster parents. The tribes say the state has often broken the law; state officials say they haven't.
• Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn attended a summit about the law in May in Rapid City, and Monday's meeting will be the first time since then that the tribes have met to discuss the results, Yellow Fat said. Tribal leaders will be discussing how to get direct funding from the federal government to run the tribes' child protective services.
• "It's not going to go away. It's not going to correct itself," Yellow Fat said.
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