BIA Seizes OST Citizen's Cattle

PINE RIDGE --A citizen of the Oglala Sioux Nation feels that his rights were violated after the Bureau of Indian Affairs seized more than 250 of his cattle over a dispute regarding grazing rights.

Curtis Temple has raised cattle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for decades on the same grazing units monitored by the BIA and on privately owned lands in his possession located near each other on the north end of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As part of planning process leading up to a potential Tribal National Park, Temple lost the lease to three of his grazing units in 2012 by tribal council committee action.

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