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residents, and they expressed their opposition to the committee reviewing the bill. The
Minnesota Governor's Commission on Human Rights also opposed the legislation, indicating that it would "not adequately protect the interests of the Indians..." The bill died in committee, never reaching the Senate floor.
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introduced a bill (S704) to provide for termination of the named tribes. In addition to resistance within the tribes, non-Native
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the reservation and associated off-reservation trust land have a combined area of 2.35 square miles (6.1 km), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km) is water.
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by drastically reducing the sizes of two reservations along the river, in an attempt to force the Dakota out of the area. Many of the people did move westward, and many of their descendants live on reservations in South Dakota.
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was 52.1 inhabitants per square mile (20.1/km). There were 49 housing units at an average density of 21.3 per square mile (8.2/km). The racial makeup of the reservation and off-reservation trust land was 68.3%
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of any race. The 2020 census results may be inaccurate for locations like the Upper Sioux
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