This is where Theodore Roosevelt became Theodore Roosevelt and if ever there was a sacred place in North Dakota, this would be it.

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The locations featured in these paintings are unrecognisable today but the dual meaning of the beach - a place that is both semi-sacred in its natural beauty and also verging on the profane with its good times - has only continued to grow more powerful.

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For the Gwich'in, the calving ground of the Porcupine herd is a sacred place.

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And as we look for our adjustments to the budget and our cuts, could you please speak to some of those very programs that are not necessarily sacred but must stay in place to even have a ripple effect for those who benefit from them?

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