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their multiple owners and give them to the tribes.
• The program began with South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation and so far has spent $72 million to restore 203,000 acres of land to tribes.
• Officials say that Standing Rock is the second most fractionated location in Indian Country, with nearly 230,000 purchasable fractional interests.
• This spring, Interior Department officials said the program would expand to 21 reservations.
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$250K awarded for GED tutoring on Standing Rock
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says AmeriCorps is providing more than $250,000 in federal funds to provide GED tutoring and testing services to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members through Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates.
• The reservation of 2.3 million acres straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
• The money will support 15 full and part time AmeriCorps members to tutor residents of eight communities on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for three years. The goal is to help 100 people between the ages of 16 and 46 years old who have not finished high school successfully complete the GED test and earn a certificate.
• Heitkamp says only about 50 percent of Native American students graduate from high school, compared to more than 75 percent for the general population.
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Groups work to draw women into SD state government
NORA HERTEL, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Susan Wismer, challenger of incumbent Gov. Dennis Daugaard, is the first woman to be nominated by a major party for the state's high office.
• Wismer says that had nothing to do with her decision to run, but she knows it matters to some of the women who support her. "I'm understanding more and more how much it means to women across the state," said Wismer, a state representative from Britton.
• About 23 percent of South Dakota's 105 legislative seats are currently occupied by women -- 1 percent below the national average cited by the National Conference of State Legislatures -- and about 26 percent of the candidates that made it through the June primary are women.
• Also, six of the 22 members of Daugaard's cabinet are women, as well as many (Continued on page 20)
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