Defenders of the Black Hills
Rosebud Sioux Tribe to Take a Lead on Protecting Sacred Site
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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.
Otter Creek Mine Hello Defenders, The following message is being sent to ask if you will voice your concerns on the Otter Creek Mine. This surface strip coal mine is within the area covered by Defenders of the Black Hills. We have visited the area and it is nestled in a beautiful valley and historic place that will be completely destroyed. Please voice your concern for no more coal mining and the protection of the environment of the Otter Creek area. Thank you. Sent by Charmaine White Face, Coordinator Â
World Heritage Committee Decision on Selous Game Reserve PAVING THE WAY for URANIUM DEVELOPMENTDear Defenders, I am sending this on to you even though it is not in our Treaty Territory. It is sent by our good friend and ally, Gunder Wippel. The information is so sad. When will the insanity stop? Please pass it on if you wish. Thank you. Charmaine White Face, Coordinator Defenders of the Black Hills PO Box 2003 Rapid City, SD 57709 www.defendblackhills.org
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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
"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)