Disaster Declaration Months Late for South Dakota http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/03/disaster-declaration-months-late-for.html

FEMA DISASTER: Spring is just around the corner and South Dakota is finally designated a disaster from December storms.In one of the most pitiful delayed actions, the Obama administration's FEMA declared a disaster in South Dakota, months after the winter storms that first devastated the state in December.While Lakotas from Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River Sioux and elsewhere in the Dakotas pleaded for aid in January and February, their pleas were ignored by the Obama administration.

Cheyenne River Sioux were without electricity for weeks and fresh water for more than six days.Indian Nations and individuals rallied to help the Lakotas blasted by repeated winter storms in December, January and February. An online campaign urging CNN to cover the disaster in the Dakotas only resulted in one brief mention.While most attention was focused on Haiti, Lakotas suffered.