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• The Rapid City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1brp0s4 ) that the summit is designed for college faculty and for tribal college and university students interested in careers in health, science and research.
• The summit is being hosted by the Northern Plains Native American Research Center.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A group of South Dakota residents took to the streets of Sioux Falls on Saturday to show off their guns.
• The march by the Sioux Falls chapter of South Dakota Open Carry was meant to highlight responsible gun ownership and the right to bear arms. It is legal in the state to carry firearms in public as long as the gun is visible. There are no proposals to change the law.
• "We're trying to change the public perception of firearms," said event organizer Jesse Rierson, who carried several guns, including a semi-automatic rifle.
• One of the marchers, Dain Hofstee, pushed his 1-year-old twin daughters in a stroller while carrying a rifle and a handgun.
• "A right that isn't exercised is a right that is lost," Hofstee said.
• A handful of people showed up along the route to protest the group's message. One of them, Jack Mortenson, said he wanted to show there's another side of the issue.
• "Being able to carry guns is great. I did that. I used to hunt a lot," Mortenson said. "But in society, we should carry because we're hunting. Not because we can, to show strength."
• Sioux Falls resident and Mitchell pastor Kristi McLaughlin had planned to hold an alternative demonstration but cancelled her protest after reading several harshly worded posts on Internet blogs. She said she does not question the right to bear arms, but only wanted to question the need for guns in people's daily lives.
• Rierson said he wanted people to see gun owners being peaceful and walking down the streets just like everybody else.
• "We want the public to see what law abiding gun owners look like," he said. "What they see on the news is criminals using the guns for wrong things. They don't show law abiding citizens using them for the right things."
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Police say a Rapid City teen is hospitalized in critical

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