Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 13, 2026

PINE RIDGE: Epstein and Robert Kennedy, Jr., were on Pine Ridge 'Fossil Hunting'



PINE RIDGE: Epstein and Robert Kennedy, Jr., were on Pine Ridge 'Fossil Hunting'
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 13, 2026

Jeffrey Epstein and Robert Kennedy, Jr., were on a fossil-hunting trip on Pine Ridge, as shown in the documents just released in the Epstein case by the U.S. Department of Justice. The Epstein files also reveal former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson at the Epstein ranch in New Mexico.

On the fossil hunting trip on Pine Ridge, Epstein, Kennedy and others arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota. The exact location of the fossil hunting on Pine Ridge is not revealed.

However, in the resistance to dinosaur hunters, Lakotas' Tokala Society maintained a resistance camp on the Stronghold in the Badlands in 2003 to protect the Ceremonial area from dinosaur hunters who were planning to excavate the sacred ground. The Stronghold is where the people fled for Ceremony after the Massacre at Wounded Knee.

Epsteins' 'fossil hunting' trip, 1994--1995, is discussed in emails between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The unsealed documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case, released by the U.S. Department of Justice, include a 2012 email exchange between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell referencing a fossil-hunting trip with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (referred to as "Bobby Kennedy") in the Dakotas.

Maxwell also confirmed the "dinosaur bone hunting" in a deposition in 2016.

The location was the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota (initially misremembered as North Dakota in the emails), where fossil collection without tribal permission is considered looting, states news reports.

Robert Kennedy, Jr., has publicly acknowledged the trip, stating it occurred around 1994–1995 when he flew his family on Epstein's jet to Rapid City, South Dakota, for a weekend of fossil hunting, before Epstein's crimes were widely known.

"The Department of Justice released the latest files from the criminal investigations into the late financier and convicted sex offender on Friday, Jan. 30.

An email exchange in the more than 3 million files confirms that Epstein and longtime associate Maxwell went “hunting” for dinosaur fossils with Kennedy," People magazine reports.

“Dinosaur and fossil hunting with [paleontologist] jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils,” Epstein wrote in an August 2012 email to Maxwell viewed by PEOPLE. “Right up your alley.”

The next day, Maxwell, 64, responded with a message mentioning the now-secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“Love that - didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?” asked Maxwell. Epstein simply replied, “Yes.” (This was actually Robert Kennedy, Jr.)

Maxwell previously confirmed the trip in an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, which was released by the DOJ last year and obtained by Politico.

Epstein's Zorro Ranch, 30 miles southeast of Santa Fe.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson

In related news, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's is in the Epstein files.

The horrific abuse of children now being exposed in the Epstein files includes these facts: The Zorro Ranch in New Mexico was never searched, and is now believed to have the bodies of young victims buried there.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who was deeply involved in energy negotiations in Indian country, was in contact with Epstein for years. Richardson is among those named by one of the underage girls as being responsible for abusing her. She also named Prince Andrew.

The United Nations is also included in the horrific scheme. Maxwell promoted her TerraMar, a false front non-profit claiming to protect the oceans, during years of testimony at the U.N.

The University of Arizona in Tucson was among those who received a grant from Epstein's Gratitude 'non-profit.'

These are just a few of the facts being exposed in the millions of Epstein's files now being released.

Gov. Richardson's involvement with energy in Indian country was during the same years that Tex Hall rose to so-called glory.

Hall, the energy czar from Fort Berthold in North Dakota, headed the National Congress of American Indians, and brought in massive oil and gas wells to the Three Affiliated Tribes in North Dakota. Hall's business associate was later convicted in the two murders for hire of their other business partners.

Hall and Gov. Richardson were energy czars in Indian country, during the years when Richardson served as New Mexico Governor and U.S. Energy Secretary.

Now, other countries are moving rapidly to arrest those exposed in the Epstein files -- but the U.S. is not. The former Prince Andrew was further exposed and no longer holds his title.

As for Zorro Ranch, Epstein said in an earlier interview that he chose the location because he would be able to gain access in Santa Fe to those who worked in the nuclear industry at Los Alamos Labs north of Santa Fe.

Los Alamos Labs is in the heart of the Pueblos, was central to the development of the first atomic bomb. Pueblos protest it for the radiation released that has poisoned the region.

More on Gov. Richardson's involvement with Epstein and abuse is here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson named as abuser

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