South Dakota tribes seek restoration of federal support for work of Eagle Butte genetics lab

South Dakota tribes seek restoration of federal support for work of Eagle Butte genetics lab

Testing equipment at the Native BioData Consortium laboratory in Eagle Buttle, South Dakota. (Photo by John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight)Five tribes in South Dakota want their congressional delegation to help restore funding for a research project led in part by a South Dakota genetics lab. The back-and-forth that’s played out over the past few weeks for the Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, and Innovations Tribal Data Reposit…