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Oglala Sioux Tribe Celebrates Homeownership Month

June 29, 2011 Tammi Schone, USDA South Dakota Public Information Officer

John Yellow Bird Steele, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) signed a proclamation declaring June 2011 National Homeownership Month. The signing event took place in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, earlier this month with Partnership for Housing and USDA Rural Development on site for the ceremony....

Rural

USDA Helps Renovate a South Dakota Rural Housing Complex to Improve the Quality of Rural Life

February 07, 2011 Tammi Schone, South Dakota Rural Development Public Information Officer

Parkview Apartments, Inc. in Arlington, South Dakota, is a nonprofit organization that consists of nine buildings. The first building on this project was built in 1964 and the other buildings were later added in the 1970s. The project had seen an increase in vacancy rates prior to the renovation...

Rural

Recovery Act Funds Help a South Dakota Region Improve Water Service

February 03, 2011 Tammi Schone, USDA South Dakota Public Information Officer

Kingbrook Rural Water System, Inc. in Arlington, South Dakota, (KBRW) is spread over a service area of nearly 3,000 square miles, larger than some states. The distances involved create opportunity for failures of equipment or facilities due to natural or man-made causes. Any calamity can cause...

Initiatives Rural

Thanks to USDA, Vision Becomes Reality for Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate

November 01, 2010 Tammi Schone, South Dakota USDA Public Information Officer

In the mid-1970’s, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (Sioux Tribe) relocated from a small tribal office building in Sisseton, SD, to establish a new tribal government at the Old Agency Dakota community in Agency Village, SD. Since then, the tribe has grown immensely in population and in services provided...

Rural
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