Oglala Lakota Nation: Gold Mine Exploration Approval in Sacred Black Hills Fails to Comply with Law

A draft decision from the U.S. Forest Service would allow a Minnesota company to conduct exploratory drilling for gold within a half-mile of the Pactola Reservoir in South Dakota's Black Hills.

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The Oglala Lakota Nation has drafted a letter to ask the Black Hills Forest Service to withdraw a decision notice on a gold exploration project. Lakotas said the Forest Service has failed to comply with the law.

“The Black Hills are sacred to our people,” the Oglala Lakota Nation said. “We know them as ‘the heart of everything that is.’ The Forest Service has failed to comply with the law and has failed to consider the environmental and cultural impacts of the Project under the National Environmental Policy Act.”

The Jenny Gulch Gold Exploration Project is a year-long drilling project planned near Silver City, South Dakota, in search of gold.

Now! Lockdown Shutdown Elbit's Death Machine in England

Now in England: Lockdown shutdown in front of Elbit Systems weapons factory. Elbit is the same company that constructed spy towers on the Tohono O'odham burial places. Now the spy towers transmit live data to U.S. Border Patrol agents who can stalk vulnerable O'odham in traditional communities.

Numerous Border Patrol agents in the Tucson sector have been arrested for serial rape and drug running. In Palestine, Elbit Systems is a death machine, responsible for Israeli surveillance, weapons and weaponized drones. Elbit's contract on the Tohono O'odham Nation was granted by the U.S. government and approved by the elected Tohono O'odham Nation government over the objections of traditional O'odham.

Elbit is an Israeli defense contractor carrying out Apartheid. -- Censored News.

Apache Stronghold -- Ninth Circuit may reconsider Oak Flat appeal

Photo by Steve Pavey

Ninth Circuit may reconsider Oak Flat appeal  

Apache Stronghold vows to pursue all avenues to protect Oak Flat, including at the  Supreme Court 

By Apache Stronghold

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French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=7389

SAN CARLOS, Arizona –The Ninth Circuit announced this week that it will hold a vote on whether to reconsider Apache Stronghold’s appeal to save Oak Flat, their most sacred site. This means Apache Stronghold may get a second chance to win protection for Oak  Flat in the Ninth Circuit before the case goes to the Supreme Court.  

Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr. of Apache Stronghold welcomed the news: “Oak Flat is the place we have connected with our Creator for millennia, and the generations that follow us deserve to continue this holy tradition. We are glad the Ninth Circuit is going  to take a closer look at this decision, and we hope it will do the right thing and protect  our most sacred site at Oak Flat.” 

Catholic Church Reaps Millions from Genocide of Native Children

Historic photo of St. Joseph's Indian School.

Native Children: Victims of fundraising and abuse by the Catholic Church

Brenda Norrell
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August 18, 2022

St Joseph's Indian School used young Lakota children in a television fundraising commercial today. It was broadcast on the Food Network.

Several Native children were used in the commercial for the school, operated by the Catholic Church in Chamberlain, South Dakota, with a history of horrific abuse.

Nick Estes, Lower Brule, describes the sexual abuse and beatings of Lakota who attended the school. It led to suicides.

Estes said the pedophiles and rapists at the school terrorized the children and girls who were impregnated by the priests.