Trump confirms that he will attend the fireworks event at Mount Rushmore in the Sacred Black Hills on July 3, 2026. The Oglala Lakota Council in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, passed a resolution opposing the event.
Protest in 2020 over fireworks event at Mount Rushmore. Photo credit Unicorn Riot Media.
Oglala Lakota Oppose Fireworks Event at Mount Rushmore
PINE RIDGE, South Dakota -- The Oglala Lakota Tribal Council opposes a presidential visit to Mount Rushmore for a fireworks celebration in the Sacred Black Hills, on July 3, 2026, which President Trump plans to attend.
"It should not occur," the Lakota Council said in its resolution, pointing out the violation of the aboriginal treaty, the Fort Laramie Treaty, and the distress Lakota already live with because of federal budget cuts.
The tribe's resolution points out the ongoing uranium mining and oil pipelines, including Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline, where sacred sites are being destroyed.
The face of Apartheid in Palestine, heavy machinery by John Deere, on Dakota Lakota land at the blockade of the Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where 12 were arrested yesterday.
Photo by Jon Eagle, Sr.
Dakota and Lakota women and youths on the frontline as 11 were arrested Thursday defending sacred land and water from Dakota Access pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
"The place where pipeline will cross on the Cannonball is the place where the Mandan came into the world after the great flood, it is also a place where the Mandan had their Okipa, or Sundance. Later this is where Wisespirit and Tatanka Ohitika held sundances. There are numerous old Mandan, Cheyenne, and Arikara villages located in this area and burial sites. This is also where the sacred medicine rock [is located], which tells the future.”
Avis Little Eagle, Standing Rock Hunkpapa Lakota woman, Avis Little Eagle, former Vice Chairwoman of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and current Publisher of The Teton Times Newspaper
I read one of the news stories in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and the reporter kept saying that the water protectors were outside reservation boundaries. Like"go back to the reservation" Indians. That is one of the reasons Native America must write their own stories .. The water protectors are standing their ground in 1868 Treaty Territory, which if the reporter knew their U. S. Constitution, is supreme law, above and before the Congress and the U. S. Courts. And as for the Army Corps, they are also ignoring treaty and Winters Doctrine Rights of the Lakota/Dakota Oyate who are protecting the Missouri River from a $3 billion dollar pipeline that will run 470,000 gallons of crude Bakken oil a day across the Mni Sose. It's not if it will leak but when, and there are 12 million people downriver that also rely on that river for drinking water, not to mention the wildlife that rely on the river. So I'm proud of and praying for our people, humble and pitiful as they are for taking on Big oil when every card in the deck is stacked against them. History will show they made the right choice. But sadly it will be after the river is contaminated and drinking water is fouled and wildlife and fish and the winged nation start dying from the contamination. Then the oil company will pack it's bags and move on and the U.S. EPA will cry that it doesn't have the money to clean up the river. So yes, stand strong Oyate.
Tipiziwin Tolman, Standing Rock
Standing Rock is my home. I grew up where the Missouri meets the Porcupine Creek. We are Hunkpapha Lakota and Wiciyena Dakota - We are Sitting Bull's people among many others. We are the people who have always lived along the Missouri river, on both banks. Our history is tied to this water, our identity is tied to this water. We come from this water - We were never displaced, this is where Creator put us. This water and this land recognizes our language and our prayers. This water, like all water gives us life and we all need water to live. This pipeline and all the oil fracking is pure POISON. Please come to Standing Rock's northern border and stand to protect this pipeline from being built underneath our water, directly above our water intake where our drinking water comes from. When you turn on a faucet today, think of our people and what we are standing for. Calling for all Oceti Sakowin, all nations, to come stand together - come to the northern border of Standing Rock and stand for the future, be a witness for the water, and for the world. (Please share if you can, please pray if you can, please come if you can.)
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Words of Jon Eagle, Sr.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe by resolution claim all stone features, stone cairns and stone effigies within the aboriginal homelands of the Oceti Sakowin. Wherever the buffalo roamed our ancestors left evidence of their existence and connection to everything in the universe. There is a prophesy among our people that told us one day man was going to go to far and when that time came the animal nations were going to show their sacred color. The birth of the white buffalo in Jamestown, ND was a sign that we were in that time of prophesy. The Dakota Access Pipeline is crossing the aboriginal homelands of the Oceti Sakonwin and is destroying sites of religious and cultural significance to the tribes. DAPL will have an adverse effect on the land, the air and the water. Now is the time to go back to our sacred places and pray.
The Dakota Access pipeline will go through South Dakota and Iowa enroute to the Gulf Coast. Boycott all these corporations:
The pipeline, currently under construction, will connect western North Dakota to the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline Project (ETCOP) in Patoka, Illinois. From there, it will connect to the Nederland and Port Arthur, Texas, area, where refiners including Valero Energy, Total and Motiva Enterprises operate some of the largest U.S. refining facilities. source .
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The army of police sent to arrest Dakota and Lakota women
Bad Bear's father Buck Sampson said, "The Walk and Run is within the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley Land Boundary. It began on May 1, 2016, and ends on May 8, Mother's Day on Sunday. "They are in Tonopah now and continue on Highway 95 to Yucca Mountain, ending at Mercury Peace Camp. They will be camping along the road."
Long walker and photojournalist
Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone
Photos copyright Carl Sampson, Censored News
Long walker and photojournalist Bad Bear has documented for Censored News the Longest Walk 2 northern route, Longest Walk 3 and Longest Walk 4, while walking across America. Bad Bear has also shared his photos from protests for Leonard Peltier and other walks in defense of sacred land. Thank you!
FOR IMMEDIATE RElEASE
There will be a Treaty Meeting at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on Saturday afternoon at 4:44 p.m.
Families, women, and men are invited to participate in this spiritual
Treaty Talking Circle to discuss strategies for getting the 1851 Treaty
of Fort Laramie honored and respected.
Currently, nine (9) trillion dollars in Black Hills gold sits as stolen property in Fort Knox, Kentucky, while millions of dollars a day is spirited off of Treaty Lands from Wyoming in train cars to supply the electricity needs (coal gasification plants) for millions of americans - without one (1) cent going to the Treaty Signatory Nations and the N/DN/D/Lakota people for their Treaty Resource.
There will be a Canunpa Circle Ceremony as well as discussion about
utilizing Treaty Land for a spiritual encampment/Treaty Reclamation
project - the 40 acres of Treaty Land occupied/swindled from the heart
of the "Pine Ridge Reservation" next to the Wounded Knee Massacre
Site currently under discussion.
Treaties are protected by Article VI of the U.S. Constitution that
states, "Treaties made with Indian Nations shall be the supreme law of
the land, with the judges in every state bound thereby."
There are no 'broken' treaties, only those VIOLATED each day by the u.s.
government and american people. The "squeeky wheel gets the grease" so
it is now time to make Treaty Voices heard as Treaty Peoples reclaim
Treaty "supreme law" Homelands.
(In 1992/3, Oliver Red Cloud helped with the re-establishment of Oyate
Omniciye "General Council Talking Circles" in Porcupine, SD, that later
moved into Mni Luzahan)
