Defenders of the Black Hills
Great News !!
Hello Everyone,
Great news! One of our friends and allies, Michael Marriott with Nuclear Information Resource Service was able to stop a new nuclear power plant from being built. That affects us here, at the start of the nuclear cycle, where they begin with the mining. It also helps the whole world as there is too much nuclear radioactivity already hurting too many people, food, and water. (Please see article below.)
The second great piece of news is from a Press Release sent by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. The Reynold's family has accepted ernest money from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to purchase Reynolds Prairie, or sacred Pe' Sla. We are grateful to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe for doing everything they can to save this sacred place. They still need donations.
Pe Sla also known as Reynolds' PrairieHello Defenders, The following is information collected and sent by Nancy Hilding, the chairperson of Prairie Hills Audubon Society. We have been encouraging comments on the South Rochford Road for a number of years. Now, the Reynold's family is selling land that they say they own due to the illegal homesteading allowed by the US federal government in violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the March 3rd Act of 1871, and Article VI of the US Constitution.
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Rosebud Sioux Tribe to Take a Lead on Protecting Sacred Site
Aug. 15, 2012 Dear Defenders, Yesterday, at a meeting in Rosebud, we received the following Press Release. We are so thankful the Rosebud Sioux Tribe has taken this action. Please pass it on, and contribute if you wish. A land auction is planned for Aug. 25, 2012, of this sacred place. Thank you. Charmaine White Face, Coordinator FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rosebud Sioux Tribe to Take a Lead on Protecting Sacred Site ROSEBUD, S.D. -- In the spirit of religious freedom, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council announced Wednesday, Aug 8 that it would act as the fiscal agent to bid in the Pe Sla sacred site auction in the Black Hills. The site, also known as the Reynolds Prairie Ranches, between Lead and Hill City, S.D., will be up for bidding on Aug. 25.
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Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
"The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima Nuclear disaster...." Nuclear Physics Professor Kimberly Kearfott, University of Michigan, in comparing the readings obtained in northwestern South Dakota at the Cave Hills open-pit, abandoned uranium mines.
“It must always be remembered that the various Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations, and that their claim to sovereignty long predates that of our own government.”
Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice
(McClanahan v. Sate Tax Commission, 1973)