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From a Native American web site, name and URL not recorded, spring 1999
Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is the poorest place in the United States.
Daily Brief 15-Feb-99
The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reported yesterday that American Indians are more than twice as likely as other people in the U.S. to become victims of violent crime.
Daily Brief 22-Jul-99
Ground breaking ceremonies for the National Museum of the American Indian have been scheduled for September 28 [1999]. The five-story structure will occupy a site between the
U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument [in Washington, D.C.].
USA Today 26-Apr-02
There are 1.9 million Native Americans in the USA.
USA Today 24-Aug-04
American Indian tribes with the largest populations, according to the 2000 census:
- Cherokee 729,533
- Navajo 298,197
- Latin American Indian 180,940
- Choctaw 158,774
- Sioux 153,360
- Chippewa 149,669
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