BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Rapid City Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Rapid City Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:da9c9b73-2616-4bf3-930b-aa5b3572a794 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260812T160313Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230629T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230629T190000 SUMMARY:Chapter Chat Book Club LOCATION:Rapid City Public Library Downtown\nRapid City Public Library Dow ntown X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Rapid City Public Library Downtown;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Rapid City Public Library Downtown:geo: 44.0783478,-103.2289463 GEO:44.0783478;-103.2289463 DESCRIPTION:We will be reading about a community's efforts to halt the pro posed displacement and elimination of several Native American tribes in th e 1950s in this month's book..\nhttps://rapidcitylibrary.libnet.info/event /7259127 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at t he jewel-bearing plant\, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountai n Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new &ldquo\;emancipation &rdquo\; bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn&rsquo\;t abou t freedom\; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a &ldquo\;termina tion&rdquo\; that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land a nd their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in go od faith with Native Americans &ldquo\;for as long as the grasses shall gr ow\, and the rivers run&rdquo\;?

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Registration is limited to 12\, b ut walk-ins are welcome! \;

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