What has Sturgis been in the news recently for?
Sturgis, South Dakota is often in the news during the summer months for the biker rally. But there are a lot of other things that this military town has been in the news for, especially over the years. For example protests, biker shootings. Like in 2006 when Native Americans all of the country came here to protest the granting of liquor licenses to property owners close to Bear Butte National Park because loud noise is the after effect of drinking and it disturbs the sanctity of the spiritual monument. (Whitney A.3 The note card reference is not needed.) During their protest that lasted four days including not only the stopping of liquor license’s but also the “deflections of biker traffic near the site were one of the intents.” (Whitney A.3). While bikers are huge during the summer in Sturgis especially during the bike week the “Out law biker trend is fading, but they haven’t ran out of gas yet. The Hells Angels had a tent in Sturgis and gunfire did break out between them and the Outl
