"I've been watching the struggle the Yankton Sioux tribe has been having with the new hog confinement being built west of Wagner.

My girlfriend said to me, "What's the problem? I don't see what the big fuss is about."

I said, "Do you see this thing going up in Deadwood, the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Pierre, any white neighborhood, Sioux Falls or next door to you?"

She said, "No, I don't see any of that."

And to me, that's the problem.

I asked her, "How would you like that thing to be right next to you?"

She said she wouldn't. None of us in any of those communities would like a hog confinement right next door."

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