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education, combat methamphetamine dealers, promote economic development and improve housing on reservations.
• "This election is about Indian Country," Obama declared six years ago.
• Some residents of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation said many of Obama's promises have yet to be met. Around Cannon Ball, a handful of houses sit with boarded-up windows, stray dogs roam and a group of young men hang out on a back porch in the early afternoon. The aroma of alcohol hangs in the air.
• "Around here, they need to do something, especially for the homeless," said Alma Thunder Hawk, who said her government-provided trailer home is uninhabitable, infested with mice and lacking running water. "I'm elderly. I've been trying to get help. Nobody will help me."
• Still, some on the reservation said they feel Obama has done better than his predecessors. Ron His Horse is Thunder, the tribe's former chairman, said he believes Obama has helped American Indians more than any president since Richard Nixon, assisting in settling lawsuits and prosecuting criminal offenders.
• Obama plans to note advances for Native Americans made under his administration, including litigation resolved, protecting Native American women from domestic violence, improved access to federal disaster assistance and tax breaks for tribal benefits.
• Curtis Brave Bull, a Cannon Ball resident, said he's seen people working ahead of Obama's visit to spruce up the town, which has seen hard times for many years.
• "This is like a ghetto on the prairie, but we now we have to clean things up," Brave Bull said. "So maybe something good will come out of it."

Dakotas schools to educate farmers on farm bill
BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press

• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Two universities in the Dakotas are each getting close to $50,000 in federal money to help educate farmers and ranchers about the new farm bill.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture is doling out $3 million nationwide to university extension services for outreach and education on the farm legislation signed into law in February, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
• The nearly $100 billion-a-year farm bill sets policy for hundreds of programs, ranging from farm subsidies to nutrition. New legislation usually is written every five years.
• "Helping farmers and ranchers understand new farm bill programs and what the programs mean for their families is one of USDA's top priorities," Vilsack said in a

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