WEST RIVER—While the federal government has extensive programs to help stamp out hunger on Indian Reservations, a system that large, with so many independent programs, there can be bureaucratic snags that prevent the food from getting to the hungry. At present, reservations in South Dakota are as much as a month behind on FDPIR deliveries. The Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations is a food supplement program that was created in 1977 with the limited scope of serving reservations in Oklahoma but has since grown to encompass all of Indian Country. However, for many reservation families it has become the...

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