Tribes protest expansion of military fly zone

LAME DEER, Mont. –– In the wake of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval of what could become the largest military training airspace over the continental United States, the Northern Cheyenne Nation still hopes to block the proposal, tribal Development Director Steve Small told the Native Sun News on March 27.

The FAA approved the four-fold expansion of the U.S. Air Force Powder River Training Complex on March 24, to allow large-force exercises with B-1 and B-52 bombers in an area half the size of the state of South Dakota, including land under the jurisdictions of the Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Standing Rock Sioux, and Cheyenne River Sioux Indian tribes.

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