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The bilingual radio station K·I·L·I operates out of this state’s town of Porcupine, (10[1])which was proposed (10[1])as the capital (-5[1])of a breakaway nation-state in 2007. The local grocery store chain Buche (“BOO-ee”) Foods, spelled B-U-C-H-E, and its convenience store affiliate Gus Stop operate entirely in this state. During World War II, the US evicted Indigenous residents for practice bombing runs in this state’s Stronghold District, which took off from Ellsworth Air Force Base. (10[2]-5[1])Each April, this (-5[1])state’s flagship university in Vermilion (10[1])hosts (10[1])a (-5[1])Wacipi (10[1])(“wah-CHEE-pee”) powwow. The Rosebud Indian Reservation (-5[1])is in (10[1])this state, where a rideable (10[1])jackalope statue sits outside (10[1])the road stop (10[1])Wall Drug. (-5[1])A region (10[3])with eroded buttes (10[2])(“byootz”) sacred to local Indigenous (10[1])people names Badlands National Park in, for 10 points, what state, where some Native residents object to Mount Rushmore? (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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