Pipestone National Monument student trainee park guide, Jessica Arkeketa, has been selected as a Udall Native American Congressional Intern. She will begin her internship in Washington D.C. on May 25, and will return July 30 to the Pipestone area. According to the Udall Foundation website, the program ‘provides American Indian and Alaska Native students with the opportunity to gain practical experience with the federal legislative process in order to understand first-hand the government-to-government relationship between tribes and the federal government.’ Currently a senior at South Dakota State University, Arkeketa, an enrolled member of the Otoe-Missouria (Jiwere Nut’achi) Tribe in Oklahoma,...

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