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Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
South Dakota's ag, cultural ties to China
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — China has upped the ante in its trade war with the United States by raising tariffs on goods from the U-S to 125%, starting Saturday. It's in response to President Trump's 145% tariffs on China. But there was a time when trade relations were much more cordial, if not cautious, between the two nations. South Dakota was on the front lines of building stronger economic and cultural ties to the communist country. South Dakota's Bill Janklow and Minnesota's Rudy Perpich were among the U.S. governors who visited China in 1983. At one point, Janklow blew up a balloon that read 'China and America are Friends' and gave it to a little girl. LIST: $9.1M in federal spending cuts in SD 'I think the biggest thing is people get to know each other. We get to know them, they get to know us,' Janklow said in 1983. Much of South Dakota's outreach to China involved getting the Chinese to purchase South Dakota ag products. A group from China checked out farm equipment during a tour of Sioux Falls in 1986. 'And here we have a t-rake, for raking hay,' was a comment shared within the group. In 1987, a Chinese trade delegation visited the South Dakota capitol to sign an agreement to purchase wheat grown in South Dakota. 'It is our overall policy to buy as much as possible U.S. wheat,' a delegate from China said in 1987. In that same year, a group from China visited the Rosebud Reservation to sample Native American culture. 'Everywhere, we've been met by very friendly American people,' a visitor from China said in 1987. UPDATE: Rice Street fatal crash victim identified In 1985, panda diplomacy came to Sioux Falls when China donated a mounted giant panda to the Delbridge Museum. 'These animals don't leave China very much because of the extremely endangered status of the animal.,' an official said of the donation. A site-seeing visit to Falls Park was accompanied by a hope for global goodwill in the future. 'We are much grateful to Sioux Falls people,' an official from China said in 1985. But there's been growing distrust between the countries in more recent years. Officials here have raised concerns about China stealing U.S. intellectual property and purchasing farmland. The South Dakota legislature passed a law in 2024 prohibiting China and a group of other countries from buying ag land in the state. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Last hope for keeping the Brockhouse animals in SF
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A group has come forward in hopes of keeping the Brockhouse taxidermy collection once housed in the Delbridge Museum in Sioux Falls. Since the 1980s, the Delbridge Museum has helped families create memories. Puppies not abandoned outdoors, say Sioux Falls PD 'All my kids growing up, they love coming here. And the museum itself. You know, when I go through it, I remember seeing all the little kids and giggling and laughing and pointing that stuff,' Jason Haack said. But kids haven't been able to see the animals since 2023, when city leaders closed the museum, saying arsenic had been found in the mounts. The Sioux Falls City Council recently voted to gift the Brockhouse collection to three out-of-state nonprofits. But not everyone supports that decision. 'We're trying to get signatures to get this on the ballot for people, for people in Sioux Falls to vote on it. We feel that what the city fathers did is not right,' Glenn Charles Philips said. 'I've gone door to door getting signatures. And everybody is for keeping them in Sioux Falls. They can't understand what our city fathers were doing,' Philips said. While the city council received the Delbridge family's support in the decision to donate the mounts, those behind the petition drive still believe the collection should remain in Sioux Falls. 'There's not a mount like this throughout the whole United States. Nobody has a complete one like this. That's why I can't understand why the mayor and the city council wants to get rid of them,' Philips said. 'They're good for education. They're good for the kids. You're good for the future. And they don't understand how they can actually build something and actually make it a very lucrative endeavor,' Haack said. The group has until March 6 to collect 7,552 signatures. Click here for more information on the Save the Delbridge/Brockhouse Animals. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Museum consultant thinks Brockhouse collection will be in good hands
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — A longtime museum consultant in Sioux Falls says the city council made the right choice in giving the Delbridge Museum's taxidermy mounts to three out-of-state non-profits, with the bulk of the collection going to the University of Notre Dame. It's a decision that received public pushback during Tuesday's council meeting. Dell Rapids veteran is back home from the Super Bowl But the retired director of Augustana University's archeology lab expects the collection to remain in good hands. Adrien Hannus had a vision of how to display the animal mounts when they first moved into the Delbridge Museum in the early 1980s. 'My suggestion out of the box was build a little African hut village in the center of the entire space, fill it with vegetation that would be correct to Africa,' Hannus said. But the museum didn't share Hannus's vision. 'The people on the board at that time, nixed that completely. They wanted water holes and so on for the animals,' Hannus said. Hannus says the mounts of the Brockhouse collection were too rigid to form-fit into a creative display. 'You mount the animals for the exhibit, so it's mounted in a certain pose. These weren't done that way. These were animals that were taxidermied standing up, all looking right,' Hannus said. Yet people speaking at Tuesday's city council remained unmoved in their support of keeping the animals here. 'Everywhere I go, I'm talking to people all of the time, they all say we should keep them here. They belong here. I think if you actually had a public vote, I bet 75-percent of the people would approve to stay here,' Minnehaha County Historical Society member Jim Carlson said. Hannus thinks the University of Notre Dame's Museum of Biodiversity will be a good steward in preserving and presenting its share of the collection. 'And I'm sure that they are prepared to do work on the animals to curate them more adequately,' Hannus said. The long saga over what to do with the Brockhouse collection comes to an end with a final vote by the city council to move them out. 'I would think that this is a very responsible thing to do,' Hannus said. Hannus adds that providing backdrops for the exhibits can be very expensive, especially when it comes to adding artwork and any special effects for the taxidermy mounts. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
