Lower Brule

So greetings from Aberdeen.

Uh, I should say this season we are covering Aberdeen, Pier, Phillip, Lower Brule, Agency Village, and Spearfish.

So greetings from all of those communities is the intro

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The fence was merely a string of barbed wire miles long which marked the boundary of our territory and separated it from the Indian reservation.

I glanced at the paper announcing the great opening of the Lower Brule by the United States government which was to take place that fall, some hundred thousand acres of homestead land.

Here we were at the very door of that opening and had to be told about it by eastern newspapers so completely cut off from the world we were.

What good will that do us, practical Ida Marie inquired.

But there is a great satisfaction in doing simple, fundamental things with one's hands.

That evening, however, I picked up the pamphlet on the opening which Wilhelmine had left.

It announced that the United States government would open the Lower Brule reservation to entry for homesteading on a given date.

At this time any American citizen eligible as a claim holder could register as an entry in the drawing for a homestead.