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The Oglala Lakota live on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, near the Black Hills. The area has a pretty tragic history of violence, broken treaties, and culture clashes, beginning in 1874, when prospectors discovered gold in the Black Hills and the U.S. government seized the land previously guaranteed to the tribe. Today, what…