Defenders of the Black Hills
Canada, keep your mining companies at home
Powertech Uranium Mining Company, the company that Defenders has tried to stop from coming into the Region, is home based in British Columbia, Canada. Now that province has a ban on nuclear development. Notice the following article:
Button Badges Button Badge Recently there has been an effort by a law firm to encourage the people to accept the money that was offered for the sale of the Black Hills. We knew this would be tried again but trust the Tituwan (Lakota) people not to sell their souls.
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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)