August 27, 2005
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August 27, 2005
Opening Prayer: Vincent Brings Plenty
Introductions
Bear Butte Preservation Task Force: The Task Force was created as an ad hoc
committee at the May 29-30, 2004, meeting. The purpose of the Task Force was to establish a land trust and secure funding for the trust.? However, this did not happen, and as the Bear Butte Preservation Task Force was not approved by the Management Council at it?s meeting? October 23, 2004, it is not legal and therefore defunct. This fact along with an internal matter was referred to the Management Council.
Bear Butte: Discussion on a private businessman?s plans to build a biker bar, campground, and outdoor concert arena near the north side of Bear Butte. (See article: Broken Spoke branches out, Rapid City Journal, Mon. Aug. 8, 2005)
them of this current situation. Carter will write a draft and send it to Charmaine for final edit.
Smithsonian Magazine: Tony Perrotette, journalist from Smithsonian Magazine arrived and asked for comments on Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Monument, and the Black Hills.
Closing Prayer: Vincent Brings Plenty
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"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
