George S. Mickelson

Exactly.

He reached out to the governor of South Dakota at the time, George Mickelson, who was a Republican, and proposed a year of reconciliation.

So Diago suggested replacing the state's existing October holiday with one honoring Native people.

And Governor Milkelson agreed.

Peter Norbeck founded Custer State Park.

George Mickelson had his year of reconciliation to strengthen relationships between the state and Native Americans.

Bill Janklow used prison inmates to rewire the state's K-12 buildings and university buildings for internet access.

What is your big specific idea for South Dakota?

Does it go to the public safety division, or is the data center gonna get it? And those are questions we need to maybe slow down, take a look at this thing, and do maybe some type of a moratorium or a slow, uh, process so we get it right the first time.

Uh, Governor George Mickelson, uh, put on a moratorium on the Black Hills mining, the uranium mining.

I don't know if you remember that or not, and that was one year.

And by golly, it worked.

Rodin relied on his record as governor during recent legislative sessions.

Earlier this year, he signed legislation that put restrictions on the Future Fund, which was created in 1987 at the request of then-Governor George Mickelson, a Republican.

South Dakota employers pay fees into the fund through unemployment payroll taxes.

The fund was placed under the governor's exclusive control to spend from when economic opportunities in the state arise.