Defenders of the Black Hills
Norbeck Wildlife Area (NO Logging)
The images are before and after photos of the Norbeck Wildlife area where there is to be NO logging or any kind of motorized vehicles according to 2 federal laws. As you can see, the US Forest Service has thought differently. This is why we keep proposing the Okawita Paha National Park managed by the National Park Service so this kind of destruction will not happen.
These are only 2 of hundreds of spots that are currenty being logged.
Charmaine White Face InterviewInterview with Charmaine White Face: Nuclear Free Future Award 2007 Prayer gathering local TV coverage
From: Kota Territory ABC news Native Americans in KOTA Territory come together to pray for the health of the land and the earth. Saturday, members of the Defenders of the Black Hills met at Sioux Park for their 10th annual prayer gathering. The group is a non-profit, volunteer organization that fights for environmental causes. This year the organization has concerns over the Keystone XL Pipeline, which could cause spills in the Ogallala Aquifer. They are also opposed to a nuclear power plant in Canada being built to pump the oil. "Both of those are very destructive to the earth, to human beings, to our way of life, to everything. And it will contribute greatly to global warming of course," said Charmine White Face from Defenders of the Black Hills. To further their cause, the organization hands out form letters, creates petitions, and has a booth at the Black Hills Pow Wow. Â http://www.kotatv.com/story/15650338/defenders-of-the-black-hills-host-prayer-gathering |
"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
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)