
Challenging Mike Rounds for the Senate
A Democrat finally steps up
Thursday, September 17, 2020
Native Sun News Today Staff Writer
Dan Ahlers is a Democratic candidate running for United States Senate in South Dakota.
He is originally from Dell Rapids but he has also lived in Rapid City and Gillette, Wyoming, before settling in Dell Rapids permanently. He has been a small business owner and has served in the South Dakota House of Representatives from 2006-2008 and 2017-2019. He has also served in the South Dakota Senate 2008-2010.
Ahlers wants to see better relationships between the state and federal governments and Native Americans and he believes that it starts with treaties.
“One of the things that I want to see improved is doing something to honor the treaties between the United States and the tribes,” he said. “If that means we need to sit down at the table and discuss a new treaty then I am open to something like that. People look for symbolic things that they can do, but I want it to be meaningful.”

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