I. agents in a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation, in South Dakota.

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The Pine Ridge reservation exemplifies the extreme opposite: the tragic consequence of defending a way of life in impossible circumstances.

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Day by day, family by family, community by community, Nick and his non-profit have helped inspire a new beginning for Pine Ridge.

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At present, the state has only one clinic that offers abortions, and that is in Sioux Falls, nearly six hours from Pine Ridge.

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Right now, about 700 cars a day pass that way, mostly towards the nearby Badlands National Park or to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 6 miles away.

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Emergency crews were working Thursday to reach isolated tribal members near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to get help to those with medical needs, such as dialysis.

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So Nick heads up a non-profit in Pine Ridge.

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Mr. WALLY COVINGTON (Northern Arizona University): To try to extrapolate results from hemlock, Douglas fir, western ridge cedar to Ponderosa pine or to loblolly pine is nuts.

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