Buffalo is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and grew up in Bridger, a tiny town in the southwest corner of the Cheyenne River Reservation.

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To spend a day crossing the reservation is to see a place stunningly beautiful and seemingly forgotten all at once, small, poor communities tucked into the hollows of western South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation.

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Wolves in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, the John D Rockefeller Jr Memorial Parkway and the Wind River Indian Reservation will be protected from hunting.

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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) agreed to purchase all of the electricity generated by the K Road Moapa Solar plant, a 250-megawatt project slated to be built on the Moapa River Paiute Reservation, located northeast of Las Vegas.

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Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding in Dewey, Perkins, and Ziebach Counties, and the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

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Conscious efforts are made in and around the town to ensure that visitors explore such attractions without spoiling them, so it is forbidden to set foot on any trail or enter any river without making a reservation and each attraction limits the number of tourists that can visit at any time.

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Other high-risk sites facing work delays are the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Idaho National Laboratory.

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