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Government & Organizations

The Dakotas

Plains Folk by Prairie Public Broadcasting

Aug 15, 20264:16Government & Organizations

Not a native of the Flickertail State, nevertheless, in the course of decades, I have acquired a complex of defensive sensitivities about it. Phrases like “Flyover Country” and “Buffalo Commons” stir the little hairs on...

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